Rutabaga Blues - The video by Rochester Slim
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Rutabaga Blues by Rochester Slim
Rochester Slim proves that one can write a song about a common root vegetable and nearly pull it off. Please give it a listen. Many thanks.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Paying My Taxes
Yes, it is April again and time to file our taxes. And though it can sometimes be a bit painful, I don't really mind doing so because I see true value in most of what my taxes go towards.
There is value in the infrastructure I use on a daily basis - the roads, bridges, airports; the offices, ports, and streetlights.
And the teachers, police, and firefighters; the military and even the nameless bureaucrats who toil away in offices throughout the country.
The food inspectors, the border patrol, the air traffic controllers, and the diplomats. The postal workers, the Coast Guard, the staff who manage our public lands and parks. They all have value for me.
The newly released 1940 Census records online received nearly 40 million hits in the first hours they were released. How many public employees worked countless hours over the years to ensure that this priceless information is available to all citizens hungry to learn about their history?
We the people pay for all of this and it has great value. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
That's pretty good to me. I thank the teachers who inspired me, the firefighters, police, and our military who risk their lives every day. I thank all government workers on all levels who work to make this a more perfect union. Granted, it's not always perfect, but by continuing to strive, we all can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Let's all be patriots and pitch in and pay our fair share.
I don't mind.
There is value in the infrastructure I use on a daily basis - the roads, bridges, airports; the offices, ports, and streetlights.
And the teachers, police, and firefighters; the military and even the nameless bureaucrats who toil away in offices throughout the country.
The food inspectors, the border patrol, the air traffic controllers, and the diplomats. The postal workers, the Coast Guard, the staff who manage our public lands and parks. They all have value for me.
The newly released 1940 Census records online received nearly 40 million hits in the first hours they were released. How many public employees worked countless hours over the years to ensure that this priceless information is available to all citizens hungry to learn about their history?
We the people pay for all of this and it has great value. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
That's pretty good to me. I thank the teachers who inspired me, the firefighters, police, and our military who risk their lives every day. I thank all government workers on all levels who work to make this a more perfect union. Granted, it's not always perfect, but by continuing to strive, we all can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Let's all be patriots and pitch in and pay our fair share.
I don't mind.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Los Pescadores - The New Album from Rochester Slim
Slims many fans are abuzz with he news that Slim has released his first new album in more than two years - Los Pescadores. Now available on Itunes for a mere $9.99.
Visit Rochester Slims website to find out more.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Miami Herald Song 2011
A new Youtube video based on an old song, updated and revised - watch the video of The Miami Herald Song 2011 by Rochester Slim.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Along the Coast - Southern OC
The southern coastal part of Orange County is always beautiful in Summer. The days are moderately warm and the nights are cool. The beaches are usually crowded, but not terribly.
San Clemente is the southernmost town.
I am always associating Richard Nixon with the town - San Clemente and the Winter Whitehouse. Or was that Key Biscayne?
Beautiful beaches and a pier that juts out quite a good ways into the Pacific Ocean.
I like any town that has trains.
Sunset.
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