This is one of those cases where you wish you were in a nightmare and could wake up from it. It is about a known pedophile that abused and exploited children at a health clinic for over 20 years. The pedophile was eventually charged and convicted for some of the abuses years later and now…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 10 – Tina Turner
Tina Turner 2009 50th Anniversary Tour. Photo by Philip Spittle Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer, songwriter and actress. Widely referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before launching a…
dVerse — Poetics — A Sea Dirge Echoes The Voice of the Lobster
[A Sea Dirge] [Echoes] [The Voice of the Lobster] — Three Titles of Lewis Carroll Poems I hear the clacking of the trap where tattered figures rot; the dead who tell no tales, yet murmur hints, drifts in the stream, deep in the murky belly of the sea. Yet her pipes do chastise me in…
#FF — The Magpie’s Gift
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox Daria startled from sleep, disoriented. She reached out and knew she was lying in dry hay in Volodymyr’s patchwork, yet sturdy shed. Volo had arranged for a boat to pick her up at dawn on the Saksahan, where it would take her to the Black Sea and away. Her mother,…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 9 – Odetta
Odetta Odetta Holmes (b. 12/31/30 – d. 12/2/08,) known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement“. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #121 – March 8, 2022
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! This batch includes a couple of mega-blockbusters from 2021, a couple of decent others, and one so-so that is still worth a watch. Let’s start with the so-so one. Cry Macho (2021) Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eduardo Minett, Natalia Traven, Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda UrrejolaDirector: Clint EastwoodGenres: dramaSynopsis: The…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 8 – Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls, image from The Times Free Press Just an FYI, I am suspending The Second British Music Invasion Series until Women’s Music March is over. It will be re-commencing on Tuesday, April 5. Thank you for your patience. Now on to the Incredible Indigo Girls! Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo…
Tao-Talk 