The Lonely Goatherd Blog And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats - Matthew 25:32
Up to the minute notes on the current state of free thinking and free living: Kentucky moonshine - original analysis and reporting from MoreThings, and all round pop culture museum of sight and sound - photo galleries, mp3 and video downloads.
Al Barger and MoreThings - getting people's goats since 1998.
Live free or die!
----
I wouldn't want to ask people to just give me money cause they like my website, but do please take a quick look at Barger's Boutique. You might find yourself a little something-something for 2 or 3 bucks that you just can't resist! Any of the round images you find around MoreThings will get you to an Amazon page to buy my stuff and help ol' Al keep the lights on.
Links
To explicitly state the obvious, these external links go to interesting and provocative websites, but they speak for themselves. I don't necessarily agree with anything they say - especially that no-goodnik Richard Marcus.
*************
All original content on MoreThings.com copyright 2008 Albert Barger or the respective authors
December 01, 2002
How'd this crazy African-American live this long? Richard Pryor was born December 1, 1940. Happy #62!
Growing up in rural southern Indiana, I was not raised around many black folks- mostly just your basic Kentuckians. That being the case, I got a lot of my ideas about them from the media. A big portion of my early exposure consisted of black folks on television holding up banks and Village Pantries- or worse yet, obvious demagogues like Jesse Jackson.
Somehow a copy of Is It Something I Said? landed in my lap somewhere around junior high. A few years ago, it occured to me that listening to that album a couple of times a week for five years or so played a critical role in my ideas about black people and black culture before I eventually got more personal exposure. Mudbone's story of how he came to move to Peoria, Illinois made an especially big impact on my psyche.
Funny thing, I didn't particularly think of the record as a black thing. The universality of his human experience came right across. Hey, I'd have been right there sawing the seat in the outhouse myself. Go Mudbone!
