Fire Fall at Yosemite Posted by John Manchester on February 24, 2012 at 4:00pm View Blog FEBRUARY 24, 2012 12:55PM RATE: 26 Flag My old freind Peter Stern had been telling me for years about his cousin Tom, a musician who’s played with Frank Wakefield, Dan Hicks, Taj Mahal, David Nelson of NRPS and THE guitar hero…
Down A Well
Down a Well Posted by John Manchester on February 28, 2012 at 4:00pm View Blog FEBRUARY 28, 2012 9:29AM RATE: 15 Flag Why have I been absent from OS since last summer? I’ve been busy working, of course, but the real reason I’ve been gone is that I fell down a well. Not with a dramatic splash, but…
Lunch with Linda – Love on Haight Street
Lunch with Linda – Love on Haight Street Posted by John Manchester on February 24, 2011 at 3:30pm View Blog FEBRUARY 24, 2011 2:07PM RATE: 37 Flag The Grateful Dead playing for free on Haight Street. As promised, Mrs. Muse and I shared lunch with Linda Seccaspina at Magnolia Pub on Haight Street. The food was…
Stephen King and My Dad (Part 2)
In researching his alternate history of JFK’s assassination, 11/22/63, Stephen King did his homework – reading “a stack of books and articles on the subject almost as tall as I am.” In researching his non-fiction work on the same subject, Death of a President, my father conducted over 1000 interviews, many made possible by Jackie…
Stephen King and my dad (Part 1)
I was reading Stephen King’s latest – 11/2/63, an alternate history of JFK’s assassination – when I ran into my father. I was using the Kindle app on my iPad, so I can’t say which page it was on, only that it was location 1071, 8% through the book. My father would have been horrified…
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