No Direction Home














If you are a fan of Bob's, and of course we all are, I highly recommend this documentary. I watched it on my local PBS station and was enthralled. This film, along with Bob's recent book, provides more insight into his life, and his character, than anything I have read or seen in forty years. We've had glimpses, and hints, "I'm just a song and dance man," but never anything that explained as well his feelings about what was happening to him during his meteoric rise to fame.

I can't wait to watch the DVD so I can actually see the film without the snow, and diagonal, fuzzy, red, interference lines, scrolling across the screeen.

And yeah, he is still out there. The Fall European Tour starts October 17 in Stockholm.

If only it were that easy.

From the Associated Press's coverage of the Dalai Lama's visit to Rutgers University over the weekend:

As the Dalai Lama neared the end of his speech, he explored the difference between attachment and compassion, attachment being a selective connection shared by friends, he said, while compassion is an 'unbiased' act.

Nearby, a former flight attendant, Kathleen Davis, squealed. She had been taking notes on a pink piece of paper and pointed to the words 'attachment' and 'compassion'.

"That's it!" she said. "Its one or the other. I've got goose bumps."

He did seem to like the Key to the City of New York he received later in the day.

Weatherman: Mobsters caused Katrina: "An Idaho weatherman says Japan's Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack -- and that this technology will soon be wielded again to hit another U.S. city."

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Went to the big National Championship Air Races in Reno over the weekend. This event attracts a crowd of over 230,000 they say. It's all about the horsepower and speed and there is nothing else like it in the world.

A big part of the event was the airshow that takes place between the races. One of the highlights for me was the Canadian Snowbirds demonstration team. They fly nine small jets in very close proximity. It was cool. Many thanks to my host, the wooly bugger.

Fool on the Hill

And the eyes in his head,

See the world spinning round.















Nick, standing on Winnemucca mountain. Here is a young British man who has spent the last couple of weeks in a very different environment than I suppose he is accustomed to.

Friends of Morsa who came and spent the weekend with us.

The Storm after the Storm

David Brooks has an interesting article today in the New York Times concerning the aftermath of the hurricane:

Hurricanes come in two waves. First comes the rainstorm, and then comes what the historian John Barry calls the "human storm" - the recriminations, the political conflict and the battle over compensation. Floods wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities. When you look back over the meteorological turbulence in this nation's history, it's striking how often political turbulence followed.