paul butterfield-morning sunrise

check out the paul butterfield band’s performance of morning sunrise at woodstock—cut from the film, butter at his soulful best with a fine band.

You can talk and talk, but this is solid soul……

  • Paul Butterfield – harmonica and vocals
  • Howard “Buzzy” Feiten – guitar
  • Rod Hicks – bass
  • Ted Harris – keyboards
  • Phillip Wilson – drums
  • Steve Mudaio – trumpet and percussion
  • Keith Johnson – trumpet and percussion
  • David Sanborn – alto saxophone and percussion
  • Trevor Lawrence – baritone saxophone and percussion
  • Gene Dinwiddie – tenor saxophone, percussion and vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8h9qTquC0I

counting blessings in berlin

Dark Apartment, 148 Lincoln

Lock Up Storage Pano 1

For six months I have been packing my worldly belongings into a storage area. This was not fun, but it is done. I had a lot of help and support, and many thanks! I locked the old house up, locked the storage up, locked my car and had my friends drop me at Union Station in New Haven.

 

 

This morning at 7:23AM I landed at Tegel airport in Berlin. I will be posting regularly and in varied ways now and in the coming months and invite you to come along on the journey, tell your friends about laopan888.com and on Instagram where I will try to post daily (my #selfdrivingcar project is the default, but you see a lot of interesting things on the road). I’ve never gotten a comment (I don’t think: there are still couple of loose ends), so try me! Always a thrill!

 

signs at the women’s march(es)

This is a list of signs from the Women’s March on January 21, 2017. Most of them are from the DC march, but some from others. The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank ran a column with some of the ones he liked best, but the comments had many many more.

Read it and smile at a time of so many unfunny events. It’s easier to convince a person by joking with them than it is by shouting at them.

Women are the wall, and Trump will pay.

2,864,974 because we know it bothers you

Tweet others as you want to be tweeted. (The golden shower rule)

140 characters but no character. #SAD

Make love not wall.

I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change; I’m changing the things I cannot accept!

Honestly, I’d prefer an actual swamp.

Donald Trump’s Book Club –& pics of “The Constitution for Dummies”

Can Trump Tweet and Juggle Putin’s Balls at the Same Time?”

Don’t Make Me Come Back Here

There is no Planet B.

No, Donald, THIS is a massive crowd

Whose interests are you Putin first?

Our Rights Are Not up for Grabs, and Neither Are We

Fight Like a Girl

If I Make My Uterus a Corporation Will You Stop Regulating It?

We’ve Taken this “Anyone Can Be President” Thing Too Far

#Tweet Us with Respect

Hottest new tea for party: IM-Peach-Mint

Abort unwanted presidencies

And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus

ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION

Protect Your Privates from Ryan

Why don’t you leave us for a younger, prettier country?

Thou Shalt Not Mess With Women’s Reproductive Rights” Fallopians 4:28′

Goodnight science, goodnight facts, goodnight corporate income tax.

Leave it to The Beavers

“I Believe In Partial Term Presidencies.”

 

I do not like you down my shirt

I do not like you up my skirt

I do not like you on my rump

I do not like you, Mr. Trump

 

I Thought That Sexual Offenders Weren’t Allowed In Government Housing

Melania, Blink Twice If You Need Help

You Haven’t Seen Nasty Yet

This Is Not A Good Sign

I Raise Up My Voice-Not So I Can Shout-But So Those Without A Voice Can Be Heard

Tinkle, tinkle little Tzar, Putin made you what you are

 

 

dc: inauguration-women’s march

The top image is a group of ‘trouble boys’ intent on making a political statement through window smashing and burning trash cans. Note media contingent.

The next pano is Pennsylvania Avenue across from the District Building at 13th Street. I waited there with all those cops for the Inaugural Parade but after a (long) while it started to get dark and I left.

The next two panos are from Saturday’s Women’s March, a weak attempt to show what the enormous, extraordinary crowds that covered the Mall, Independence, Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues that day were like.

four rockers

 all rockers, right click to download. enjoy.