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We all need diversion at times and these are some of mine. Hope you enjoy them too.
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Music

Music is as important to our well-being as the air we breath. It impacts our emotions and our physical being in a way nothing else can. I sometimes think that the ability to convert of thoughts and feelings into music is the highest form of art.

Foghat Index Page
for everything you ever wanted to know about the band.

 

It was hard to imagine Foghat without Dave, no more silver lemaé tenny's. Mister organic sweat! Time catches up with us all. But the real loss for me was Rod in 2005... We had many great times together... Rod and I were both ready to literally strangle my ex-husband, Michael, on many occasions...

None of us look much like this picture these days.
What hasn't changed is that Michael is still creating music and I'm still creating pictures.

I know Rod's up there somewhere polishing his slide work.

Wicked Tinkers

Tinkers on YouTube

 

 

Alan Foley,
lead guitar for Sequoia
© s ragan 1997


my "baby brother," with the Flying V collectionwho now spends much of his free time driving Chump Cars.


Sequoia, a rock & roll band
Big Wood was recorded live and the sound quality is outstanding. The band was reformed with new members.

 

Lionharp Music - Aryeh Frankfurter

In addition to his career as a Celtic harper, Aryeh has explored a wide range of musical styles utilizing all his multi-instrumental capabilities. He has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and music producers from the progressive rock and roll band with Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne, Jon Anderson of Yes fame, film and TV soundtrack composer Jame Dunlap, Azigza, Medieval Sephardic Musician Lauren Pomerantz, modern Rai singer MC Rai, the psychedelic space-rock performance artist Gilli Smythe,‘Tribal Trance Druidic Dance’ music of Land of the Blind, the harp pop-jazz stylings of Verlene Shermer to the Hip Hop/Rap albums produced by Million Dollar Dream to name just a few.

Aryeh currently collaborates extensively with his partner and colleague, Windham Hill artist and Billboard Chart topping
harpist and composer, Lisa Lynne.

 

iTunes and the Apple Store

The Rolling Stones

The Official Jim Messina

Cajun/Zydeco Bands

Best of Broadway

 

SciFi

The line between fiction and fact has always been blurry. Today's fiction is frequently tomorrow's fact.

I attribute my passion for science fiction and fantasy to my father. His library of paperbacks fills several rooms. And I discovered many of my favorite authors among those shelves. The cover art fueled dreams of the future. It does, however, make it hard to appreciate man's first steps on the moon when one is impatiently awaiting the discovery of hyper-light drive. After 50 years of science fiction accounst Ray Bradbury's Rocket Summer is finally a realit.

Periodic escape from the stress of everyday life is necessary to stay healthy. The comment has been made that "they", the authors just "make up any old thing." What they write, and dream, helps us explore ourselves and the possible consequences of our deeds in the safety of our favorite chair as we relax. 

The Encyclopedia Mythica for information on many things!
Also see Enlightenment.


SETI@home Be part of the investigation.

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Scarier than any sentient threat

Image left: Hand-cast bronze figure © S. Ragan 1984, from a cartoon character created by D'Mello Grosse.

StarTrek

StarTrek WWW stopped being updated in 2001 but is still functional

All thats left of the StarTrek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton

 

StarWars
Babylon 5
X-Files

Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition
And the entire Star Wars world now that Disney on board.

The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5

Cool Sci-Fi Stuff: The Official Guide to J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5

Sci-Fi Channel

The X-Files- Mulder isn't dead, he just moved to LA. Guess I'll just have to get by with Mulder and Scully dolls from the Sci-Fi Channel's Dominion website.

Starman, the movie

A 1984 science fiction and fantasy film directed by John Carpenter which tells the story of an alien from another planet (Jeff Bridges) who has come to earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record in the Voyager space probes.

The movie was written by Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon and Dean Riesner (uncredited). Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In April 2016, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Shawn Levy will direct and produce a remake written by Arash Amel. Michael Douglas, who was a producer of the original, is also on board to produce, while Dan Cohen and Robert Mitas are executive producing, and Matt Milam and Adam North are overseeing the project for Columbia. (courtesy of Wikipedia)

Starman, the TV series

The 1986 television series of the same name starred Robert Hays, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Erin Gray, Michael Cavanaugh, & Patrick Culliton.

I have assisted the coordinator for a few years now, producing all visual elements for the conventions in 2014 & 2016.

Left: Robert Hays, Family Con Coordinator Vicki Werkley and Patrick Culliton at the 2014 convention.

Collateral advertising, T-Shirts, cake, name tags, and related materials.

2016 Convention collateral below; T-Shirt and cake design.

Patrick Culliton, Stephanie Rose and Robert Hays

 

Novels

Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine-
A beautiful lady and writer of thought provoking human drama in the guise of fantasy. Not to mention the most throughly documented version of the Arthurian legends ever written in the Mists of Avalon series.

Fortunately she came to CCC several times and I was able to speak with her on more than one occasion. She will be missed by many but will live on through her works.

For Harry Potter fans

JKRowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more
Official site about the author and the Harry Potter books.

My favorite podcast:

MuggleNet.com | The ULTIMATE Harry Potter Site
Features interactive forums, Potter profiles, and information about the books and the movie.

The Leaky Cauldron: The most trusted name in Potter
A Harry Potter weblog.

History

Sapiens - the history of the human race by Yuval Noah Harari. Answers to so many questions about why people are the way they are. His newest book is Homo Deus... the furure of mankind. Both books are available on Audible.

1491, The Americas Before Columbus- a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. The book argues that a combination of recent findings in different fields of research suggests that human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought. (wikipedia)
Often truth is stranger than fiction.

 

My own little fairie cat..

Fingerprints of the Gods - a book first published in 1995 by Graham Hancock, in which he echoes 19th century writer Ignatius Donnelly, author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), in contending that some previously enigmatic ancient but highly advanced civilization had existed in prehistory. (wikipedia). This one is amusing, at best.

The Faerie Encyclopedia

The Norse Mythology Web Page

National UFO Reporting Center

Lights In The Sky - Virtual Voyage

Games

Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Creators of Myst and Riven.

The Myst Journals Web Site

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Cyan, After 12 Million Myst Games Sold, Has A Narrow Escape With Death
by Dean Takahashi

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