What happens when you watch too much tv as a child.. (the original Littlest Hobo)

The Littlest Hobo (for Anita) - 'Maybe Tomorrow' - lyrics by Terry Bush

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

Down this road that never seems to end,
Where new adventure lies just around the bend.
So if you want to drive me for a while,
Just grab your hat, come travel light, that's hobo style.

Maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, the whole world is my home.

So if you want to join me for a while,
Just grab your hat, come travel light, that's hobo style

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

There's a world that's waiting to unfold,
A brand new tale no-one has ever told.
We've journeyed far far and know it wont be long;
We're almost there, and we've paid our fare with our hobo song.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

So if you want to join me for a while,
Just grab your hat, come travel light, that's hobo style.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll find what I call home, 
Until tomorrow, you know I'm free 

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-written by Terry Bush and John Crossen for the 1979-1985 Littlest Hobo TV series

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Apparently this song was written for the 1979 series. And you can hear a Spanish version here. (Unless you've got a Mac without the right plug-ins like me, in which case you will miss out.)

Love to hear from you in the comments box if you remember the series, or know what the theme song was for the 1960s series.

xbeth

Fickle fair-weather feathered friends

My new friends. Although they were a little fickle and quickly defected when a guy rolled up at the other end of the park with fish and chips.



So this is coleslaw? Mmm, ahum... Delightful.




Sorry. Salty hot chips too hard to resist. Forgive me?

J D Salinger: author of Catcher in the Rye and creator of the Glass Family, dies at age 91

Vale (go well) Jerome David Salinger, who died on Wednesday (US time) at aged 91.


I feel quite sad about this. All my books are in storage, but if feels time to read 'Seymour: An Introduction' again. Or even 'Catcher', which I haven't read in years.


I have this image of the Glass family sitting in their living room in their brownstone walkup, in deep mourning. Waiting, now that their protector has gone, for the horrible tide of publicity and the bunfest over filmrights and the unpublished works to wash up the hallway.

Thank you, for an imperfect life, and so much inspiration.

The new Mac's iPad: Where was Peggy Olsen when Apple needed her?

The new Apple iPad has just been released, which looks pretty cool and is another step towards making e-books more friendly... but what were they thinking (or not thinking) when they named it?

They definitely needed Peggy Olsen (from MadMen) in their marketing department to point out the obvious.

 Or Sam, perhaps, from Bewitched to smile apologetically at the new name suggestion and go 'We-ell..'

Or maybe they just needed to watch more (Mad) tv... (This skit is from 2007.)

If they wanted a name that instantly went viral and got blogged and tweeted about... well they got it.

Have fun reading these riffs on the iPad concept collected by Jezebel and make sure you scroll down to the even funnier comments from its readers (including comments from a few from men who don't find it funny).

And before you ask, No, you are strongly advised not to go swimming or horseback-riding while using the iPad. Gotta wait for the iTampon before doing that.

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Howard Zinn, radical historian and essayist, dies at age 87

The great US historian Howard Zinn died this week, at age 87.

I remember reading a piece of his on historiography when I was at Monash University in the late 1970s. This was before post-structuralist historiography was in vogue, or even heard of, and it stood out for its passion and intelligence. Zinn argued that history was like a terrain, with many ways to map the same event or moment. And which method of mapping we use depends on what we want to do, and where we want to go.

Here's one of my favourite later quotes from him:

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic.  It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.  What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.  If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.  If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.  And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.  The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." 


-- from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train:  A  personal  history of our times (p. 208)


Thanks Howard.
Namaste.

Delicious poetry chapbooks free to download, from AhaDada Books

I love poetry chapbooks. Perfect size for a bedtime read.

AhaDada Books (great name) has a selection of free chapbooks by wonderful poets that you can download and read from their website

I just read (and recommend) "the meh of z z z z" by Pam Brown

download it and others here