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Photographed in Monochrome
$9.99
Photographed in Monochrome is the debut folk/roots album from the author of Stripping the Gurus: Sex, Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment.

If I may I'll sit with you
And take your pleasure for awhile....

Geoffrey Falk's mellow sound has been compared to "James Taylor meets Cat Stevens." Raised on a crabapple and chokecherry-laden hobby farm in southern Manitoba, Geoff spent his formative years in a bungalow reverberating with the classic sounds of Gordon Lightfoot and Simon & Garfunkel, dubbed from LPs onto one of the first quarter-inch Sony reel-to-reel tape decks. Taking as his early inspiration a folksinging uncle and a six-channel home studio with dynamic mics in his dad's workshop, he wrote his first song before age ten. After picking up the family Gibson guitar a few years later and learning his first chords from an old Pete Seeger songbook, plus Travis-picking from a book of Paul Simon transcriptions, he has honed the lyrical and melodic craft over a hundred original songs since then, give or take.

Down among the cattails and the beavers
And the bulrushes and pussy willows
Wild rosehips sway, and the air is sweet
And the lush, verdant prairie grass tickles your toes....

Rich in organic imagery, Geoff's tunes evoke a wide range of vivid scenery and emotions. From Charlie Brown's longing for his red-haired girl--

In my eyes, red-haired girl
You are surrounded by adjectives
Words like cute, breathtaking, beautiful
Radiant, unapproachable....

... to the gypsy call of the open sea, a weathered boat, and the wind in unfurled sails--

All I ask is a tall ship, for a mariner in rhyme
Spray and wind-blown spume
A running tide to chase away the ladies of the harbor
For a halo draped around the moon....

... to a roving-eyed, middle-aged Leonard Cohen-esque figure lingering, his glass half full, in a bar at closing time:

Hey cutie, I'll walk you home
Down streets of gold, photographed in monochrome
If you'll excuse the state I'm in
We could drink Manhattans, and sip sloe gin....

Photographed in Monochrome. You know where to start: Listen to the record!

The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein (Dover Pictorial Archives)
$14.95
Wonderful book for recording a very difficult era. Remembering history is necessary so we don't repeat it. And, we are. Many of the problems of the dust bowl years and the financial depression are happening right now but they are hidding in plain sight. The middle class is becoming smaller, incomes are going down for most Americans, except the Bill Gates and Oprahs. Farmers are leaving the farms while a few farming conglomerates are buying most of the productive land. The fertility of the land keeps going down and people are losing their homes. Other countries are passing us and leaving us behind but still we ship them our jobs and money. Remember.

ALEX RODRIGUEZ New York Yankees Player Photographed BASEBALL STYLE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
$11.99
This officially licensed Player Baseball Ornament features your favorite player's image printed on a regulation sized baseball. Vibrant graphics are featured on all sides of this great collectible, including the player's name embossed across the top, so no matter how you display it, colorful logos show off your team pride! This limited edition collectible is perfect to display on a Christmas Tree or anywhere else you wish to hang it. All of our items are brand new from the manufacturer, and have never been used. We have been in business since 1987 and have been selling online since 1999. We will be listing many more items in the days and weeks to come! Please come back to our Amazon store, and look for our other Sports Collector's items.

Poster of Jose Sotz and his father from Guatemala, photographed by Ramond Meeks.

Conceived by an award-winning designer with each persons story told underneath, the posters contain beautiful black and white photographs printed as rich two color duo tones by one of the finest printers in the U.S. 28"X40" 80# paper.