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An Original Jingle (Demo Track 1-6)

Cats That Look Like Hitler

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From http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/

A Walk Through Minto Brown Park

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Salem, Oregon

Tule Fog

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Salem, Oregon

A Sunset

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Serenity

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Our Cat, Clarice, in repose..

An Original Riff (Demo Track 1-5)

An Original Tune (Track 1-4)

Original Riff Demo from the 1970s (Track 1-3)

Original Riff Demo from the 1970s

What's So Wrong With Suicide? (Original Song)

From the 1970s - a home recorded demo I made of a song I'd just written at the time. Below it you'll find another video of a recent version I re-recorded. Here's the more recent recording:

The Extraordinary Ordinary - No. 1 (Bath Tub)

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The first photograph in my new series, "The Extraordinary Ordinary".

Diet on the Tip of Your Tongue

Overeating doesn't come from hunger but from cravings.  Cravings come from emotional needs.  They are satified by the release of endorphins generated by the taste buds at the back of the tongue, which feels like the back of the throat. You can train yourself to taste with the tip of your tongue, rather than the back.  Move your flavor sensation away from the place in your throat where you gargle, and instead focus on the tip of your tongue as being where sensation is. How to do it.  As an analogy, try this.  Stare at a fixed point in the room.  Now, without moving your eyes, move your attention around that fixed view so that you focus your mind on items around the edges of your field of view, not just in the center. Then, try this with a flavor.  Though you will always taste things over the full extent of your tongue, you can choose where to put your attention.  No matter where the flavor "centers" on your tongue, put the center of your atte...