Search For Robert Johnson (Part 1 of 5)

Gayle Dean Wardlow is the guy who found Robert Johnson's birth certificate in Greenwood, Mississippi.
   Wardlow grew up in Meridian, Mississippi. I knew him slightly as a teenager. We played softball in the summer at The Teenage Canteen in Meridian.
Below is a link to a good interview with Gayle Dean Wardlow.
http://www.bluesworld.com/Gayle

Schwartzwald The Black Forest In Washington D C 1972 Rock Creek Park

In the summer of 1972 I was in Washington D C and some friends of mine said I should go see The Black Forest. It was also called by the German name Schwartzwald.
    This was a stretch of woods that ran from P St. along through the wood over to M Street near Georgetown. There was a path that ran along the ridge in the woods above Rock Creek Park.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Creek_Park
 My friends told me it was like a Fellini movie and they were right.
At nighttime to woods along the path was filled with gays hiding in the dark back in the bushes. Very little light illuminated the scene.  As you walked along the path men would come out of the woods and then disappear back in the woods. 
  This was a meeting place for D.C. gays at that time.
It was a pitch dark scene with occasional sounds of rustling coming from down in the woods.
   I walked the whole length of the forest and agreed that it was like a Frederico Fellini movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest

In Gay Old Mobile...Two Gay Encounters In Mobile Alabama

When I was driving a taxi in Mobile Alabama in 1964 I had what you might call two gay encounters. Actually they encountered me.

The first was in the basement men's room of the Battle House Hotel. This was considered one of the very best hotels in Mobile.
  There was a taxi stand outside and I had run in to use the bathroom to take a leak.
As I was coming out of the stall a short old black man who was the bathroom attendant asked me, "Do you want a blowjob?"  I told him no. I am not sure if he meant himself or if he was pimping for someone else.
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mobbr-the-battle-house-a-renaissance-hotel/

The second incident happened when I stopped at a restaurant out Springhill Avenue to go in and get something to eat.   As I was eating a young man kept staring at me.  Finally he got up and came over to my table and asked me if I wanted a blowjob. I told him no. He kept asking and was somewhat insistent.
  He said "Come on we can just go around the corner." I kept telling him no.
   I asked him what made him like he was. He said, "God made me this way".

When I was young I had several other experiences with gays following me. Once in Edinburgh Scotland in the summer of 1964. I walked all over the city and noticed a guy following me through the Princess Street Gardens.  Finally he gave up.

And again the same thing happened in New Orleans in the French Quarter. I was walking all over the French Quarter taking  photographs. Slowly I noticed a guy was following me at a distance.  I kept taking pictures and eventually he disappeared.

Real Angry Birds Very Mean Birds Very Angry Birds

We have some real aggresive mocking birds in our front yard that dont want anyone coming around. One of them sits on the roof of the house and surverys the scene for intruders.
There may be more than one pair and more than one nest.
I just went outside and was attacked by two mocking birds. One was on a wire above the sidewalk. The other came out of a bush. Most likely where their nest is.
I understand they are protecting their territory but they also seem to think our house and yard are theirs. And that we dont belong there.
 
We have had this before but they seem even more aggresive of defending their territory this time.
Swooping in and down on anyone who ventures out the front door. And even attacking when we are in the back yard.
 Every child in the South of the USA is taught it is bad luck to kill a mockingbird. Why is it? I dont know.
I looked that up on the web and the answer most given is that they are harmless and that is a sin to kill them. Some of that comes from the book To Kill A Mockingbird. The kids are told that the birds just sing pretty and make beautiful music so dont kill them. And they are told it ok to kill bluejays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird
Well I think it is wrong that mockingbirds are harmless. They attack humans who come near their nest.
  It is bad luck also to walk under a ladder, step on a crack in the sidewalk, put a hat on a bed, or break a mirror.
Flannery O'Connor pointed out that TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD is a children's book and that somebody should tell the people that that is what it is.
When the book was first released, Southern writer Flannery O'Connor commented, "I think for a child's book it does all right. It's interesting that all the folks that are buying it don't know they're reading a child's book. Somebody ought to say what it is."^[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_A_Mocking_Bird
  

   Sparrows do not attack. They just fly off to distract the visitor near their nest.
http://www.rovio.com/en/our-work/games/view/1/angry-birds

Elvis Presley - The Last Stop Hotel [Full DVD]

ELVIS What Happened?

If you really want to know what happened to Elvis read the book ELVIS WHAT HAPPENED?
It was written by his friends and bodyguards Red and Sonny West. You will get the true inside story.

http://www.amazon.com/Elvis-What-Happened-Steve-Dunleavy/dp/034530635X

Ernest Hemingway