Tommy Makem, We Hardly Knew Ye…
Contrary to what the news has been reporting today, Irish folk legend Tommy Makem will live forever!
[Photo by Cindy Funk]
Author: Robert Glen Fogarty
The Icy Beefeater
He was somewhere in the age range of forty to seventy.
[Image shared by The Library of Congress]
Chickenschnitzl
Gloggo the artist was praised worldwide for his excellent color sense and above above above average abilities in the “figure this stuff out that’s inside my head” department.
[Photo by Tom Waterhouse]
Chantey Sings and Toothless Things
As aforementioned, the damsel and I will be making our way up to San Francisco this weekend to visit the good Mister Thor and see the Shane MacGowan fronted Pogues! That’s not ’til Monday night, though.
[Photo by William A. Baker, shared by Cushing Library, Texas A&M University]
California Navels: Tonight!
This week, The California Navels will be performing their novelty and popular music from the 1920s and ’30s, along with original tunes that sound like they were written in the 1920s and ’30s.
In the Wake of the Medusa…
Moving out of Hollywood to Long Beach within the next two weeks is helping my mood aplenty, too. I just want it to be over and done with, already. Onward and upward!
[Image by The Pogues]
Folgers Goatman
Folgers was Doyle’s personal effigy of bad taste.
[Illustration by the late Chicago artist/poet/performer Wesley Willis. R.I.P.]
Draw Me a Chop-Sockie Story
So what happened with the troll, you may ask?
[Illustration by Theodor Kittelsen]
Ahoy, World!
Rather than clearing out the cobwebs, I figured I’d just tear the whole damned thing down and start from scratch.
[Photo by Staci Peters-Fogarty]