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I am trying out last.fm. They have a widget that show what I am listening to. Hope it doesn’t crash my site.

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In 1970 The Greatful Dead and fourteen other acts got on a private train going West and began partying nonstop, occasionally stopping to do concerts. Once, when they ran out of booze, they stopped the train at the nearest liquor store. With $800 from a hat passed around they resupplied including a huge display bottle [...]

Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

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Music boxes of all sizes can be heard south of the pavillion at Como Park by Como Lake every year. This year it was the first weekend in June.

I will be going to my 40 year high school reunion next month. The summer of 1967 is featured in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Their list of the top 40 albums from 1967 illustrates the significance of that year. I did not catch up with that scene until ten years later.

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