What a fine lass Annie was. Very different from her cousin Guglielmo(inventor of radio). An Irish rose Annie was. We spin a yarn about Annie in today's SongStory© incorporating songs about the radio and airwaves.

Water, the stuff of legend, of life. The substance that keeps us going on this globe mostly covered by the liquid. We crave it like the Fremen on Arrakis craved spice, only difference our eyes don't get that nice blueish glow, but our skin does get a nice sheen to it. Splash it, sip it, swim in it, cleanse in it. All this and a variety of water music to refresh your ears.

Yes, folks we all have our mellow moods, even the Bluesman. Have no fear the musical selections are not all mellow, but they are all good! Winding down a great birthday day(#47 if you care to know), with a couple of nice scotches to really put the mellow on with a capital "M."

I've been thinking about the subject of dreams and the action as well. What can I say-surreal, vital, addictive, mysterious and fascinating to rattle off a handful of adjectives. The famous poet and Taoist immortal Chuang Tzu wrote the Butterfly Dream. This is a poem where the poet questions is it himself dreaming he is a butterfly or is he in fact a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu-do you all get that? Anyhow, the Butterfly Dream together with the musical: Monk's Dream serve as the bed over which we play these songs.

This MindField cast is comprised of some sound bites of Jonathan from interview I did with him last winter, spurious facts I fabricated for the sake of laughs(hopefully Jonathan's included), In Monkey Land (Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, 1907), and a bunch of Jonathan's wonderful songs. Jonathan Coulton typifies the spirit of Free Culture and Creative Commons to me-thanks for that JoCo!

Playing some great eclectic music from bands/artist names that begin with "E" in my attempt to really get through the archives and play all kinds of good indie podsafe music. Had a nice not e the other day from a band member-Hi-just stumbled onto your blog. I'm in the Bad Rackets...thanks for including us! great to see people spreading our stuff around..thanks again.clint Hey Clint-that's that's we're all about man! Mention upcoming interview with the baddest mofo in podcasting( Dave Slusher/EGC-according to Jonathan Coulton) and an all Jonathan Coulton music cast coming up soon. Dedicate a "Virginia song" to a bunch of Virginia friends( Hugh & Sarah, Tee & Mrs. Tee, Paul & Martha, and Ken & Nancy)

Perhaps the Demented Millionaire, no not me unfortuntely (well maybe the dementia part) but John Hodgman. John Hodgman of Little Gray Books, Areas of My Expertise, Self-promoter par excellence, crime partner of Jonathan Coulton(aka Crouton), gang-banger ( the Whiffenpoofs), and the aforementioned “DM� of the They Might Be Giants Podcasts. I almost forgot he is the accuser of Jonathan Crouton’s poor cat-iquette(funny video). Todays story is from one of John’s hobo essays in the Areas of My Expertise book. While John is not really a demented millionaire, he told me if he sells a million books he’ll gladly become one, and hire me to say funny things on his podcast.

We resume the dictionary series with the wonderful letter "f", the head of finance, fortune, fame and famine. Hey wait, we were doing better at the start. Some great tunes and shout out to Karen and Smokin' Joe, ICE attendees: Tee Morris and Jack Mangan, new Clambake-EGC:Dave Slusher w/ guest Jonathan Coulton, and Sarah B., Hugh's wife.

When I was back in the US recently I was appalled by the number of pharmaceutical ads on tv and their tone-get the consumer tweaked about some drug or condition and go tell your physician to prescribe said drug... This really alarmed me, thus I rant and mix music in. Play some promos for my new site, Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas and Babylon 5 podcasts. Todays spoken content from the FDA themselves no wonder it's as bad as it is. Today's music is all druggy in theme.

Mention Frank Key and Hooting Yard podcast and play promo, give shout out to Karen from Kalifornia, and play promo for the Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas before I go into hyper-spiel. Who likes the new blog? Give me a holler or a dollar. Getting a Leg Up intro/outro music graciously provided by NYC's best funky band-Organic. http://bbluesman.com

Yes folks we have a MindField cast today looking at some humorous annecdotes on the Blues provided by the Bitter Man(Aron Michalski) of Parking in Bitter Man Circle podcast. In addition we've assembled some of the best blues music, past and present to fill out the program. If it ain't well... I guess then I'm not the Brooklyn Bluesman. http://bbluesman.com

Jimmy is the lead character in today's SongStory tale. He's different, a little bit like Tommy ( the Who's) and will be just fine when the rest of the world catches up to him. He's happy! http://legup.blogspot.com