Entries by AlanPaul

A couple of W.A. video clips

These are both from the Xiamen Beach Festival…our second gig there, after Dave (sax) had returned home. They more or less capture the size and scope of the stage and sound system. I’m pretty proud of these performances. Will The Circle Be Unbroken, American traditional song: Got Love If You Want It, original tune:

Technicolor India

What a wild, trippy place. I am pulling together some coherent thoughts and am about halfway through a long post but I ran out of steam. I will get it up tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some photos. These two dancers who loved Anna were sisters, aged10 (right) and 18,Hindu temple outside Jaipur.Even the […]

Off to India

We are off to India tonight to visit the Beletes and see some of the place. Probably won’t be posting much if at all.. though you never know.. but pictures of Taj Mahal and more within a week. Happy golden Week to you all.

Someone please tell me

…that people are laughing and or throwing up over this. I have kept silent over politics up here for along, long time but this is making me crazy. To me, it’s a line in the sand moment. I read constantly, all kinds of things and not just people whose views I am predisposed to agree […]

Stunned into Silence

Oh good griefThis just freaked me out. AP Story:Palin once blessed to be free from ‘witchcraft’By GARANCE BURKE – ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from “witchcraft” as she prepared […]

Last Column: Halfpats

Younger, Nimbler, Cheaper:‘Halfpats’ Are the New Expats By ALAN PAUL I went to college at the University of Michigan. During my freshman year, before any of us had really started to venture far beyond our dorm, a friend dubbed Ann Arbor “teen island,” referring to the odd feeling of being in a place where everyone […]