Eli and Millie

Eli and his friend Millie Middleton. I love these pictures.

Rodney Dangerfield Obit

My friend Alan Dezon who was over here working for Clear Channel and is now back for Ticketmaster, is a great guy to talk to. He is a music industry vet and I met him via Bert Holman, Allman Brothers' manager. Alan was the booker for the Capitol…

Roberto

Because it's my blog, that's why.

More Guizhou pictures — this is the lunch I wrote about

The picture at the top shows the place where the little barbecue restaurant was. It is at the bottom of that road, right on the river.That's a live little fish Anna is holding in her hand.There were these kids from the village on the hillside…

More video — Miao folk dancing

This is for Aunt Joan. We felt like we were watching her living room dance. It is really amazing how similar some of the Miao embroideries look to the Panamian molas Joan loves so much.

Videos from the trip

This is Anna being wooed and swept away by the entire wait staff of the little restaurant where we had dinner our first night, in guiyang.Driving out of Kaili to the South, you go through this light industrial zone and then into the countryside,…

Let the Guizhou pictures begin

God, I have so many great pictures to share. I will try to post a bunch but will start with shots form the villages we visited. The area we were is an autonomous region for Miao minority people. They are the same as the Hmong in Laos, Vietnam…

You wouldn’t believe this place…

Greetings from kaili, Guizhou Province, People's Republic of China. It is a really wild place. Very beautiful but a little rough edged and quite poor..caol mines to the north and ringed by industry zones, beyond which are stunningly ebautiful…

Hiking to a temple.. blessed by monks…more video

Went for a hike last Sunday.. wish I could say it was all great but we got badly lost on the way.. should have been 90 minutes and it took 2.5 hours or so... everyone was ragged out...We weren’t that far from our house really but we might…