Back to Buckethead, Pike Album Reviews

I like the first track. An otherworldly Buckethead piece. It is weird and unconventional but it gave me a lot of impressions on different listens. It has a bluesy vibe but the repeated riff makes me think of gravitational waves and all sorts of things. It is mildly creepy and I think Lovecraft would love …

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Good New Sci-Fi?

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility. A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space I haven’t read it but it sounds interesting.

Remembering A.K. Best

  Remembering A.K. Best It’s with heavy hearts that we share the passing of our fly fishing hero, mentor, and dear friend, A.K. Best.i His favorite quote still makes us smile: “It doesn’t matter how big the fish are, your hands still smell the same.” That was A.K., full of wisdom, humor, and perspective. Rocky Mountain …

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Hot Rock under Steve

thanks to close ties to the fossil fuel industry and new technological breakthroughs, U.S. geothermal power may survive the GOP assaults on support for renewables and even thrive. U.S. Geothermal

Grouse Mural

    Revisiting an old friend. When you spend so many hours on a painting, you start considering it as a living thing, evolving, developing, growing as any soul on this planet would. This is a mural I painted in 2016, for a good client and friend at his house. Murals are slightly different than …

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Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

A homesteader and his family in their cardboard house in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. His children are wearing flour sack dresses. Historical Photos YT Tough times. Steve may have been there. Pie Town and its people were photographed in 1940 by Russell Lee, a photographer for the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. government. Pie Town, Lee’s photos, …

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Badger Spa

Polly, our North American Badger, is all sugar and sass. She despises nail trims and makes her feelings very clear with dramatic huffs, hisses, and growls. But don’t be fooled—she’s all attitude and no bite. She’s never actually chomped down on Stephanie (even though we’re pretty sure she thinks about it every single time). Huge …

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Ice Fishing

I was what? It might work in anoxic mashes but it may also be bogus web stuff.