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A Vignette From My Day
Its a typically sunny but crisp day here today. On my way home from playing padel I notice an art class strewn about the plaça. “That looks like a fun class” I think to myself. Once home I fling off...
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Circus Raluy
When Mark and I first moved here 10 years ago we lived in the neighborhood of Raval, a short walk to La Rambla. We had 2 big dogs back then, and everything was an adventure. We moved here in the sunny...
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Long Live Revolutionary Art! (Athens)
One of our ulterior motives in buying a home in Barcelona was to have a solid launching pad from where we could fly out to conquer Europe and Morocco. We love traveling from Barcelona because so many...
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June of 2017 – The SKANKSTERS band 35 year reunion in L.A.
Selfie I took after my SKANKSTERS reunion gig (June 2017) 2 weeks after returning from Greece I flew solo to LA for the 35 year reunion of my band The Skanksters, who were popular in LA in the 80’s...
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2018 – The burgeoning year of Guarro Martinez
After I returned from my Skanksters reunion, Mark and I decided to start a rock band, which we named Guarro Martinez. In Spanish the word Guarro means a very rude or dirty person of low class, what we...
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Spring 2020 – expat blues in the time of Covid 19 quarantine lockdowns –...
Blog JANUARY 2019 17 fly here to L.A. 22 = go to writers club 5:00 date with Marcus to meet a young curator and dinner later 25 lydia lunch 26 – Marcus gender reveal performance 31 – Mark goes to visit...
View Article… meanwhile… update from mid December 2022
Alot has happened. We made it back to Spain in early May 2020 after four purgatorial months. We bought a car, got parking in the plaza below us, sold Gracia, bought a house in the protected mountain...
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Jumping into the AI multiverse (using Midjourney illustrations)
I know it’s silly, but I hate reading peoples opinions about the impact of AI on culture and civilization. To me they all simply state the obvious. But I guess its to be expected. I remember going to...
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Atomic Pagodas
A T O M I C P A G O D A S (a tone poem I wrote decades ago but just now added Midjourney images to illustrate) It is now post atomic war Japan.The world is made of atomic particles.Pagodas are made of...
View ArticleThe last 2 years through video dialogues
I pretty much let this blog go when Covid hit in 2019 and we got stuck in LA two months longer than planned. During our L.A. semi-lockdown we wrote songs, bought toilet paper and basics from local...
View ArticleRAV 4 Ninja Nomad – follow our YouTube channel (link below).
https://www.youtube.com/@RAV4NinjaNomads below are a few of the videos on our YouTube channel. wanderings… musings musings
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The 2 me’s
Photo below is of some of my morning padel group of 8 to 9 am padel players. Padel is a big part of my life, it keeps me fit. This is Barcelona-Lia, tooling around on my bike with my dog Zuma. In the...
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