Busy Day

Down in CentCal, my nephew and his wife had their baby early this morning, 6 lbs., 9 ozs, after a forty-three hour labor, first child. Not named yet, but mother and child and dad all doing fine, albeit tired.


We just got back from the gym, and the Super Bowl is this afternoon.


The painting above, done in fluorescent colors on black velvet, is my son's latest. Cool effect under a black light. Welcome back to the psychedelic sixties posters ...


Saw a documentary last night on the Holy Modal Rounders, an early-sixties kinda-folk group out of NYC. If you remember them, it's most likely from the Easy Rider soundtrack, for their song, "If You Want to be a Bird." They were kind of anti-folks singers, back in the day, and those who are still singing, still are ...


I had dinner with one of the founders of the group when I went to NYC, back in the early '80's,  to meet and network with book editors. Peter Stampfel is married to Betsy Wollheim, and works at DAW as an associate editor, where Betsy is the publisher and senior editor. I had completely forgotten about that until I saw the documentary. 


Weird connections. And the beat goes on ...