SPINADELIC

Description: Needlepoint just seemed like an appropriate way to commemorate Dolly. My mom was huge into needlepoint about the same time that Dolly was on the Porter Wagoner show. Was that his real last name?

Description: This is a royal raven in the heart of London. But they're everywhere.

Description: Been waiting a WHILE for this one! Love how they played as a team. Madison Square Garden was rocking.

Description: That moment to step back and draw in some oxygen and remember to look for the backdoor slider....

Description: Harsh afternoon shadows and the ball would smack the scoreboard except for the balletic efforts of the center fielder.

Description: Seventies jazz fusion mode here with Herbie manning a multitude of keyboards: pianos, synths, clavinet. Patch chords and their wires externalize Herbie's (and my) headspace listening to his music.

Description: A long day in New Orleans, when you add heat and humidity, will wear you down. A trumpet player can be excused for sitting on the curb and taking a respite.

Description: Coming out of the Vanguard into the (relative) neighborhood quiet after a jazz workout is a clarifying feeling. The red awning serves as a transition back into a regular world.

Description: Isaac's Cadillac is inside the STAX Museum now. How it must have felt to tool around Memphis in that heavy tank blasting your latest tape and heading home after a long night at the studio....

Description: Beloved shop and studio in Little Rock, Arkansas. Lee Anthony was the proprietor and mastermind. Love metal awnings.

Description: Sometime in the 1930s, when they divided the court in half and had offensive and defensive players. And coaches dressed like bankers.

Description: Popular volleyball bench chant. As in dig, set, kill. I noticed that the older the players get the less they do the bench chants. They're kind of entertaining.

Description: Headed south from downtown Manhattan on a clear day. Some bustle, but not too much. The buildings line up. The lights are green.

Description: The clock is nearly to quitting time. Downtown St. Louis readies are the end of a workday. Might there be a Cardinal game on tap?

Description: Kneeling in the on-deck circle late in a game. Waning sunlight. A mood sets in and inverts the uniform's pinstripes.

Description: Korean food court in Queens. Mmmmmm.... You're feeling hungry suddenly....

Description: Oakland Coliseum. Rickey digging in toward that next base. "I always believed I was going to be safe."

Description: Not from a specific film. A composited, imagined film noir. The guy on the phone is somewhat based on Glen Ford. The woman is really a composite with elements added to personal taste. I love the look of these films and I try to drain some of the color but I just can't help myself.

Description: Sorry, but it's REALLY "yeeha!" Haw? Come on! This all purpose explosive exclamation can be used straightforwardly or ironically - or you can make it so that no one can be for sure which way you mean it.

Description: Our father taught us to chime in on "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" And that meant we WERE getting some ice cream.

Description: Just another wonderful architectural detail found in downtown Manhattan. New York is stuffed with these kind of marvels.

Description: Rockabilly pioneer Sonny Burgess signed with Sun Records. His biggest hit was "My Gal Is Red Hot."

Description: The charms of a mid-century typewriter are real. The zing when you reached the end of a line was so satisfying. And it was kind of a workout.

Description: Where do the umbrella salesmen wait for it to rain? What are they doing most of the time, when it's NOT raining?

Description: The power of plastic - the Eight Track Tape lives on! In our hearts and minds anyway. Blasting an 8-track in my mind right now.

Description: Loved Athens landmark. Frequented by Georgia students?

Description: Not an actual movie still. More a conjured composition meant to evoke mid century detectives and femme fatale blondes. Shadow and light. A fancy staircase.

Description: Every pair of pants were bell-bottoms. For a period of time. I liked the way you could feel them flap forward and backward as you walked hard.

Description: This was a hoss of a camera. Yeah, sending film rolls off for processing was excruciating, but we're missing something without this tech.

Description: The "classic nine" lineup. Onstage, Jamming "September" into your brain and making you smile because who DOESN'T smile when they hear this evergreen tune?

Description: Earth Wind and Fire have MADE September their months! And that's all for the better. Maurice asking the all-important opening question....

Description: Classic dry cleaners clip art. They attached one of these to a shirt I had worn one time. That's the world of high-stakes dry cleaning for you.

Description: Wore the grooves off this classic vinyl. Or, really, wore the elevated parts down even with the grooves?

Description: Peak 70s soul funk maven. Issac ruled Memphis music. His Cadillac is in the STAX museum now. The bridge crossing the Mississippi River still stands.

Description: Classic Blue Note recording of John Coltrane at his most straight ahead. Pondering something during a break, evidently.

Description: Harmonic at the ready. Dressed in formal wear. Ready to rip the wallpaper off the ceiling with his powerful voice.