by James Heflin | Apr 30, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Not long ago, I had the pleasure of sitting in for a Sunday afternoon gig at the flea market in Northampton as a trio with steel guitarist Rose Sinclair and guitarist Lyon Graulty, doing Western Swing ala Bob Wills. That is, as the above logo may indicate, some of my...
by James Heflin | Mar 15, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
An American anti-homosexual preacher traveled to Uganda to join in the fervor for passing anti-gay laws. And he’s based in Springfield, Massachusetts. (The first pastor mentioned, it bears noting, is Ugandan): Standing onstage in black velvet robes, despite the...
by James Heflin | May 4, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Since we’re talking Western Swing and it’s a busy Friday when politics ain’t on my radar, here’s some audio fun of at least a related sort–Chet Atkins in the 1950s doing a Gypsy jazz standard, “Dark Eyes” in a very non-Gypsy...
by James Heflin | Mar 17, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Robert Redick is the Valley-based writer of both an epic fantasy and works of more standard literature. I just interviewed him for a story for the next Advocate, and I’m finding his Chathrand Voyage Series an interesting mix of fantasy tropes and very nice...
by James Heflin | May 6, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Here’s a particularly absorbing site that’s a sort of museum of failures to invent the permanently elusive “perpetual motion machine”–sort of a monument to the stubborness of those who think they will magically discover that physics is...
