For Helen - The Masked Marauder

This just in from Helen in time for Halloween

IF YOU GO OUT IN THE WOODS TODAY (or this week) BE SURE TO WEAR A DISGUISE
WEAR GARLIC AROUND YOU NECK....
CARRY A CROSS.....AND A MIRROR....
AVOID WOODEN STAKES....

RIP

Santa Cruz Fire

I am hoping that Mandy and Rand are safe from the new fire that seems to be in the same area as the recent one a couple of months ago. Please keep us posted and let us know that you are OK.

KUNKEL & HARRIS 10/24 Santa Rosa CA

KUNKLE & HARRIS LIVE IN CONCERT

Santa Rosa 10/24/09 at Glaser Center 7:30 pm
Check it out if you can!
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AVL9R9y2HziHZHZtZ3I3el81NjlyZ3h3anB3&hl=en

This looks interesting!

At least it helps keep The Paradox name out there.

http://www.far-west.org/panel-submission.html

YOYO MAN

THE SMOTHER BROTHERS AND YOYO MAN

Last evening we went to see the Smother's Brothers, yes, all those 51 years of performing they finally have met their goal, yes! You got it! The Grass Valley memorial Veterians Hall, to a packed house, all 75 of us. It's,really more like a 1000. It was so great. They showed a video, had Pat Paulson doing a campaign speech. Tom is a very gifted YOYO Man too. Two of our friends, Peter Wilson (came to our reunion) and Paul Emery opened for them, did a good job.

For Helen - Average Temperatures and Rainfall Nevada City

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?caneva+nca

also see

http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/interstate/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/95959

Looks like last June was a big outlier temperature wise.

This just in from Helen

DAISY

For all you Daisy
star of stage, screen, and recording artist and calendar girl fans.

As Daisy was romping through the woods Friday night she landed on a branch that went through her arm pit, along the inside of her fur, almost to her back. She had to somehow break or chew it off right at her arm pit.

We took her to the Vet when it opened at nine. She had emergency surgery. It took 1/2 an hour for us to get her in the car, very terrible.

Now the good news. She's home, able to walk a little. Doesn't like taking her pills. Back to eating and drinking. Yesterday she was one stoned dog, all day. All is getting better. Having a 100 lb dog has its draw backs.

It's a Paradox

Here's a question I've had for awhile -- where did the name "The Paradox" come from?

Or maybe this or that?

Rand...This one's for you!

For Singles Only

Jake & Tommy

1000 Ukuleles and One Banjo at the BBC Proms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvKOFOlNBag

(alas, they took down the "official" BBC video so this one is from the audience's perspective)

Or for those of you who prefer to walk on the wild side:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuFqPhnFMA&feature=related

Europe Strikes Back

I've already posted some video of my favorite live band, the Swedish group Väsen, showing off their superb guitarist, Roger Tallroth. And we had a bit of the Austrian/Swiss Kruger Brothers, featuring the astounding 5-stringer, Jens Kruger. John posts the video of a bunch of drunken vikings jamming with a tractor on "Sweet Georgia Brown".....

And for a while, in the 70s, the two finest Tele benders in country music were a couple of Brits, Ray Flacke and Albert Lee.

And now, just to show out of control this has gotten, here's another Swede, Martin Tallstrom, playing both parts of "Dueling Banjos" on solo guitar. This guy is the best Jerry Reed style fingerpicker since Buster B Jones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyvMUfLp1zI

Here's "Jesse James". Tallstrom has the Scruggs thing down solid on a guitar in standard tuning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZgzxb0yz4&feature=related

And here's a ragtime original, Martin's Rag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MxLCY7mI-A&feature=related

"Advice from an old Tennessee Mountain Man" (posted by Jeff the Trucker)

(I found this posted on Tom Sullivan's website, in the Listener's Club section. Sometimes simple is best.)

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered... not yelled.

Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel, or unkind word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

Don't judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,

you'll enjoy it a second time.

Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop

diggin'.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a [w]hole lot easier than puttin' it

back in.

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try

orderin' somebody else's dog around.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest up to God.

Live & Let Live.

"Sweet Georgia Brown" Backwoods version

Hi there. I found this a day or two ago and just couldn't resist. It is, to say the least, one of the more innovative uses of "Found Art" (the tractor) that I've ever heard. "Try it. You'll like it".

Link to - http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5067699?fr=yvmtf

This just in from Carol Metcalf

Martin Guitars: 175 years of sound

Traveling through the rolling hills of Pennsylvania's farmland, one can almost hear the music of days gone by.

The sounds of an old guitar seem fitting for the rustic buildings and small towns that you pass through. It's almost as if you're being drawn in, closer and closer to where the sound originates: C.F. Martin Guitars in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

Walking through the front doors of the factory, nicely tucked into a residential neighborhood, the floors are shiny, the smell of "newness" in the air, but somehow it feels old. It feels like you're stepping into a part of history. And you have.

Martin Guitars was established in 1833 when C.F. Martin, along with his family, immigrated to New York from Germany. Upon visiting some friends in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, the Martin family decided to trade in the hustle and bustle of New York for the open space and German heritage of rural Pennsylvania.

The story of Martin Guitars is not just one of building acoustic instruments, but also one of family. The company has passed the business down from one Martin to the next. While many guitar makers have been sold to corporations, Christian Martin IV, the company's current owner, speaks of the responsibility he feels as the fourth-generation family owner.

"Although other guitar makers may have the name, and they certainly do appreciate the history and the heritage, in my case, it's in my blood."

continued at http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/05/aif.martin.guitars/index.html

Now I know what it feels like!

OH WHAT...

WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING....
yep.....

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