Lisa Mednick Powell

We woke up Monday to a whited-out world. This week has seen subnormal temps here in the valley and beyond. Ice still on the driveway. Cold house in the morning. Scraping off the windshield. Stomping our feet when we come…

First, Buffy Ste. Marie. This goes out to The People occupying Wall Streets all over the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmAb1gNN74 Next, Joni Mitchell. All week I have been thinking about that song by Joni Mitchell with the refrain "he was playing real…

A few weeks ago, while cleaning the bathroom, I saw this strange-looking object peeping up through a crack in the grout by our shower. It sort of looked like a Q-tip. I thought, well, maybe it’s a Q-tip. I thought…

This week's tidings are dedicated to Coco Robicheaux (whose given name was Curtis Arceneaux) who left this world Friday night. He was an artist--made the Songdogs' logo in fact...which does not exist digitally as far as I know. I could…

appy Thanksgiving It occurred to me to send the entirety of Alice's Restaurant, but I decided against it and in favor of these nice pictures. (see attached) And here is a poem for tomorrow: The World is Too Much With…

Willie Shakespeare was The Man, OK Here is a passage from Romeo and Juliet that I like. Romeo asks the druggist to sell him his worst poison. The druggist tells him that he has some really kick-ass poison, but is…

I am feeling oh so patriotic today. Here is the description, from the U.S. Library of Congress (where I once worked as a stack attendant and we blew our pot smoke out the bathroom window on our breaks and this…

Here, kids, have some ear candy...as promised....don't usually send two in a row and I promise to never do it again. But I promised First Ghostly Song - This is The Cate Brothers backing up the Band sans Robbie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KOEEQttjI8…

Hi Today I couldn't decide whether to send a poem/ song email message about current events (scary and not-so-fun) or Halloween (scary and fun), so I decided to send one today and one tomorrow. Today you take your medicine and…

From the New York Times this morning ARLINGTON, Tex. — Babe Ruth, twice. Reggie Jackson. Albert Pujols. That is the complete list of players with three home runs in a World Series game. Here are a couple of baseball poems…

OK, so the night John was killed i was on a date with this guy who was a photographer. But I never went out with that guy again. Not because he didn't like my band at the time. We walked…

First, a big thank-you to Dylan-James in New Orleans, who sent me a CD he burned from his recording of the Song Dogs at Muddy Waters in December of 1988 Which is pretty cool in and of itself, but the…