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Incidents from an Infamous Year Zero
As the '70s proceeded apace, both Prog and Glam receded in terms of influence, although they'd experience periodic rebirths. Glam, for example, would be revived in the '80s through American Glam Metal, and the British...
Beachcombings From The Halling Valley Riverbank 1
Posted by Carl Halling,
21 March 2013
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First (Versified) Beachcombings
Some Sun Drunk Day He Said
Emotions war against sense
And his mind remains
A pot pourri,
And thoughts in his head
When he lies in his bed
Would make Dorian Gray
Appear pristine.
He wishes to...
It's e stimated that some 27 million Americans are of Scots-Irish descent, making it one of the largest ethnic groups in the country, although the vast majority of these would consider themselves simply to be ethnically American.
And among those sons...
Luke the Drifter and the Birth of Country
It's widely accepted that singer and songwriter Hank Williams is Country Music's single most revered figure, and among the most influential...
Most students of world literature would surely agree that Goethe's famous epistolary novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, has exerted a quite incalculable influence on the evolution of the Western mind from the date of its...
The Scots-Irish Sept of Watt
My father Patrick Clancy Halling joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra while still a teenager during the Blitz on...
In the Beautiful Valley of Tamar
My paternal grandmother grew into a remarkably beautiful young woman with dark hair and blue or green or hazel eyes and an exquisitely sculpted mouth...
Seven Chapters From A Sad Sack Loser's Life - Chapter Two
Posted by Carl Halling,
14 March 2013
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Soon a fter returning from Spain in the summer of 1972, David Cristiansen was launched by his dad on what could be called an intensive programme of self-improvement.
Through home study and with the help of local private tutors, he set about making up for...
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