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May.28.2013 - 9:16 pm
Flaco de Placo
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Flaco de Placo The celebrated flamenco dentist, Spins his toupee On an index finger, Like a Chinese plate juggler.   He is on a break.   Flamenco dentistry Can be...
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May.19.2013 - 10:14 pm
Madre
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Except for the peerless blue of the sky the world is black and white. The sun blasts all color from the streets ricocheting it up off the blinding white of the walls to be...
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May.03.2013 - 2:10 pm
Musical Archeology
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Evan Harrar studied with reclusive Flamenco guitar master Diego Del Gastor in the early 1970s in Morón de la Frontera, a Spanish town in Seville province, Andalusia. I studied...
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Apr.15.2013 - 2:12 pm
Forward
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I've started a new exercise regime. My phone app tracks calorie intake and exercise but I still have to pedal. For my 60th birthday my wife gave me a bicycle, custom built to fit...
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Comments from Luke

Mar.02.2012 - 11:15 am
In response to: MEN AND MAKE-UP
Theatre
God, yes, I complain about the punk rock audiences I played in front of who signalled their approval by spitting at us...
Feb.26.2012 - 4:11 pm
In response to: THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF AGING ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Thank you Dolores - After I
Thank you Dolores - After I lost two close friends and then my parents within six months of each other, for a while...
Feb.25.2012 - 2:31 pm
In response to: THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF AGING ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Thanks Brendan - I have to
Thanks Brendan - I have to admit that all this "turning sixty is no big deal, it's just another number" I told myself...
Feb.16.2012 - 10:54 pm
In response to: Comfort/Strength in Knowing Life Can Hardly Become Worse
Germans
Brendon, I love your blogs - I think maybe we bear some similar shaped scars, at least I don't think either of us...
Feb.16.2012 - 10:42 pm
In response to: ACTOR OR COMEDIAN?
Court Jesters
Thanks Brendan - Court jesters,what a wonderful idea - can you imagine NATO or G8 with court jesters? Now that's...

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Luke James has been telling stories since he broke his first window. A first generation punk rock survivor, he was born and raised in the projects of Birmingham, England. He has wanted to live in the USA since he saw The Lone Ranger when he was five-years-old...
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