Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

"Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" - West Wing

Columbus Arts Festival - Lone Raven

One of the highlights from the Columbus Arts Festival was the band Lone Raven. 

There was truly magic in the air

 as the band took the stage at sunset... 

and the city lit up... 

and the moon was rising....

Here is a video of Lone Raven playing at the Arts Fest in 2008.

Elephant painting video

Watch the entire video, and tell me - Is this real ??? 

200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station

"over 200 people freeze in place on cue 

in Grand Central Station in New York"

You Tube - Frozen Grand Central

head tilts

I don't know why - but, this just cracks me up...

Pug Head Tilts on YouTube

my George Harrison dream

Recently, I had a dream that George Harrison was at my house...

I have no idea where this came from... but, he was walking around my house, and all I could think of was "I can't let him see all my Beatles stuff.. he'll think I'm crazy"..

In my dream I was worried about hiding my Beatles collection, and I was remarkably calm about the fact that he was back from the dead....So...what does it mean ?

After a couple of days somebody sent me a link to MTVMusic (which has thousands of videos from the days when MTV played music) as I was looking around at the videos I found this video of the Traveling Wilburys , a great band featuring Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Roy Orbinson, Bob Dylan, and George Harrison...I remember when this video came out... Roy Orbinson had passed away,... and the scene with his guitar in the rocking chair (at 1:45)  just floored me...

and now when I watch it, and see George...

The Traveling Wilburys |MTV Music

more Traveling Wilburys

"Handle with Care"

The Traveling Wilburys |MTV Music

Endeavor to persevere

"I wore this frock coat to Washington, before the war. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes.
We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln.

You know we got to see the Secretary of the Interior.
He said "Boy you sure look civilized." He congratulated us and he gave us medals for looking so civilized.

We told him about how our land had been stolen and our people were dying.

When we finished he shook our hand and said "Endeavor to persevere"...

They took our pictures and the newspapers said "Indians vow to endeavor to persevere."

We thought about it for a long time.
"Endeavor to persevere."

And when we had thought about it long enough,
we declared war on the Union."

Lone Waite, Indian chief - from "The Outlaw Jose Wales"

YouTube clip

"les Indiens jurent de s'efforcer de perseverer"

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Gorrila Collins