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HELLO, FANS OF CLASSIC ROCK!

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Lately I seem to be getting a fair amount of traffic from StumbleUpon, where my blog has been inexplicably categorized as “Classic Rock”.

I can see that visitors from StumbleUpon are only on my site briefly, after which they leave in disgust at being misled here (yes, their disgust is actually logged in my site statistics).

In an effort to please the people coming here looking for the rock that is classic, please accept these pictures of guitarist Steve Howe as a good faith gesture on my part.




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Looking For Middle Earth Denizens In American Graves

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Here’s another public service provided at no cost to you, the casual web surfer and/or blog reader.

Search the Social Security Death Index for characters from the popular Middle Earth books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

01. Bilbo
02. Frodo
03. Samwise
04. Merry
05. Pippin
06. Gandalf
07. Aragorn
08. Gimli
09. Legolas
10. Gollum
11. Arwen
12. Saruman
13. Sauron
14. Boromir
15. Faramir
16. Elrond
17. Shelob
18. Treebeard
19. Théoden
20. Éowyn

My guess is that these numbers will exponentially grow as the children of hippies reach their life expectancy.