My resolution for 2010 is to write a blog. I’ve been thinking about this for some time but at first I couldn’t imagine what I might have to say that would be interesting to anyone other than my dog. My dog’s name is Jupie, by the way. She’d follow me just about anywhere but most sensible people wouldn’t want to follow me around at all. They’d get pretty bored you see. It’s just home to work – work to home over and over again. Home to church – church to home on Sunday. There are occasional exceptions but I don’t [...]
Yesterday was Jeff Henson’s birthday. I posted a message on his Facebook wall to wish him a happy birthday and included a link to a video in which he can be seen briefly. The video is from the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, an annual event that I attend regularly. The picnic is organized by Kenny Brown and it celebrates the legacy of North Mississippi blues music masters like Mississippi Fred McDowell, Otha Turner, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Junior Kimbrough, and R. L. Burnside among others. The video shows three sons of Junior Kimbrough playing a Junior Kimbrough song. Jeff is [...]
I was interviewed by a writer for the Montgomery Advertiser in 1996. When the article was published, I was surprised to find that the writer identified me as an Internet guru. I didn’t think of myself in that light. I’m a documentary filmmaker and instructor but I was using the Internet before it became commonplace. At that time I had already developed a few websites. The web pages I had created to promote broadcast of my documentary about the kudzu vine had been picked up by the Yahoo directory and listed as a cool site. They had little sunglasses by [...]
