"In the world..."

                                               view from the studios of F150

left lake have-a-shoot city and it was 96 degrees... got to coconino and it was 69 degrees and 25 degrees at night...lake h city is a nice area but when i turned to see a patron in the pawn shop pointing a pistol at my head i assumed that there was some hostilities in the community...this visit  however the two bullets that whizzed past the campsite seemed a bit amateurish...but there are some great thrift stores in the city the hospice thrift being one and the veterans thrift being the other...

saw two porcupines yesterday and the name porcupine hill behind the camp is well earned...awoke this morning at dawn when i heard a loud barking nearby...wasn't sure what it was until i recognized it as an elk...probably a female with a calf...a small herd was nearby last night and this morning grazing in the meadow...

called the doctor at one o-clock as i was told to do to get the prognosis on my biopsy...the receptionist said the computer was down and sometime next week they would call and arrange for another consultation by phone...and i had been thinking in dramatic and tragic terms for two weeks now...damn!

 anyhow i found a great DVD in the thrift last week and would like to recommend it "Led Zeppelin" this is a collection of film shot during concerts...starting in 1972 until 1979..."In My Day of Dying" from the Earls Court concert in 1975 was especially well shot and shows the consummate skill of the musicians and the vocalist (Robert Plant) now Zep has become a bit of a cliche but upon viewing these concerts i think the hype was well deserved...this tune is played on acoustic guitar with mandolin...how ever i must admit that "Stairway to Heaven" the last tune is the one that really melts my butter...now that tune is really made fun of but if you see these guys playing this tune for 9 minutes you will probably agree that it deserves to be a classic...despite the album entitled "Hairway to Stephen" by the Butthole Surfers...which is about as popular as "Yes we have no Bananas" which was big in its day... 

now this is important in a historical way...on the Jack Parr program of May 8, 1964 Richard Burton recited a speech made by Winston Churchill on march 5, 1946 about the soviet union and the Iron Curtain  and the english/american alliance needed to stop soviet aggression...it is chilling to hear this mans astute observations about Russia which still apply...

"In the world i fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty." Shakespeare