The College Crowd Digs Me

" I am the backwards traveller. Ancient wool unraveller." -- Wings -- Phileas Fogg,  the  phlegmatic  "nothing worries me" guy, must travel around the world and only   has  eighty days to do it.  A feat believed nigh on impossible...or his entire fortune is burnt toast.  And all because of a spur of the moment wager he strikes up with a swell bunch of snooty fellas down at the Gentleman's Reform Club.   Talk about your no-nonsense itinerary! Jules Verne   French novelist  1828 - 1905 Fogg, along with his new servant, Passepartout, (I pronounce it 'Pass-the-potatoes" for fun) encounter one frustrating obstacle after another.  B ad guys, bad d rugs, bad weather, bad fish, and a bad  tribe named Sioux. Along with all that, Fogg squeezes in time to rescue a young lady in harms way.  Actually his servant's the hero, but Fogg has all the dough, so he gets to bake the cinnamon rolls...(if you get my dr...

" The madman climbed The steeple spire. "Go higher" said the crowd From down below ." Thin Lizzy St. Patrick’s Day, I opted to review an album from a band of Irish descent. So after filling my plate with corn beef and cabbage and refilling my tall glass with green beer, I put in the CD " Vagabonds of the Western World " , an offering by Thin Lizzy released in 1973. At this time Thin Lizzy was just a three piece band led by the legendary Phil Lynott , an underrated bass player and singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland and was backed by Eric Bell /guitar and Brian Downey /percussion.  Lizzy had a much more soulful psycha-blues-rock burn going on...on this one...with plenty of meat on the bone. The band kicks off this overlooked treat with a message of environmental neglect in the powerful " Mama Nature Said ," a driving song that rocks without being preachy. It is interesting that forty years later the message i...