Month: June 2012

Saturday Night at the Oldies: Doc Watson

The Grim Reaper is gaining speed as he picks off the makers of the music that so impressed us in our impressionable years.  In recent weeks Levon Helm of The Band and Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees have passed on. And just a few days ago, Doc Watson, master of the flat pick.  So pour yourself a drink and enjoy some great guitar playing as the sun sets on another Saturday.

Tom Dooley
Last Thing on My Mind.  Tune written by Tom Paxton.  Paxton's 1966 version. 2008 version.
Cat Came Back
Tennessee Stud
Settin' on Top of the World

If you don't like my peaches
Don't you shake my tree
Get out of my orchard
Let my peaches be
And now she's gone
And I don't worry
Lord I'm settin'
On top of the world.

A Little Nugget from Martial

There have always been serious writers and there have always been low-rent scribblers. You should not imagine that it was any different in the ancient world.  Here is a little something from Martial.

Cui legisse satis non est epigrammata centum,
nil illi satis est, Caediciane, mali.
  

Caedicianus, if my reader
After a hundred epigrams still
Wants more, then he's a greedy feeder
Whom no amount of swill can fill.

(tr. James Michie)

Cat Blogging Friday: Atheist Cat

Atheist CatBecause I'm a rational animal.

Because, unlike you, I was made in the image and likeness of God.

Max the cat responds: Because I'm a logical positivist.  The God question is devoid of cognitive significance.  Meaningful questions pertain to such matters as mice, cheese, birds, and catnip.  And now I think I'll go take a long nap, a car nap.