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From the home studio in Deerfield... SONGS I LIKE

FORLORN (Wayne Shorter)

WAYNE'S WORLD (Myers / Carvey)

HOW DARE I BE SO REPUBLICAN (Gabriel / Genesis)

NEW VALUES (Iggy Pop)

DREAM CLOCK (Joe Zawinul / Jaco Pastorius)

FASCINATION (Bill Frisell / Michael Shrieve)

LEATHERWOOD (Randle Chowning)

BEFORE WE WERE BORN (Bill Frisell)

DON'T BRING ME DOWN (Jeff Lynne)

VENTURA HIGHWAY (Dewey Bunnell)

ON THE RUN (Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)

SAFE HARBOUR (Bob Welch)

VILLANOVA JUNCTION (Jimi Hendrix)

Text of my invited speech at the 75th Anniversary Commemoration of the Tri-State Tornado, Murphysboro, IL, March 18, 2000

Text of my invited speech at the 85th Anniversary Commemoration of the Tri-State Tornado, Carterville, IL, March 18, 2010

PowerPoint presentation delivered at the 85th Anniversary Commemoration of the Tri-State Tornado, Carterville, IL, March 18, 2010 (requires MS PowerPoint)

A recently unearthed web review of The Tri-State Tornado

My Fifteen Minutes of Fame: You can see me on The History Channel ("pay-per-view"), or on The Weather Channel for free!

Self-Serving Capitalism in Action: Buy The Tri-State Tornado and Soul of the Sky

A mesmerizing photo set from the November 2001 major aurora event, courtesy Spaceweather.com. See the pictures here.

OinkerNet in Olympia, Washington captured a classic film of its guinea pigs experiencing the Seattle earthquake! Check out the film here.

Below is the cover of Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather (Mt. Washington Observatory Press, 1999). It's a slightly different kind of weather book in which quite a few authors, myself included, explore the ways in which weather has shaped their lives. In "Return to Irving," I describe a visit to a Kansas ghost town that was decimated by two tornadoes on May 30, 1879. I won't review the book myself, but an interesting commentary can be found here.

• Storm Lake
• Tracy
• Burien Gardens, part I
• Burien Gardens, part II

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  Obituary for my cousin, Francis Schumacher... last of the renaissance men

  The DVG America National Schutzhund Championships

  The Graefental Web Recommendations

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  Last Updated on March 28, 2010