Hey Everyone, here it is finally!!!! The second episode of Pigeon John!!!! Enjoy!!

Pigeon John got his start at open mic nights with the likes of The Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship and Jurassic 5. Largely   more...influenced by their model of laidback music with a message, Pigeon John has gone on to create a unique sound and charismatic live performance that separates him from any other MC today. Recently dropping the album “Pigeon John’s Summertime Pool Party” on the successful independent label Quannum Projects, Pigeon John is quickly making a name for himself. Come watch Pigeon John as he shares with us how he got his name and style of word flow on this edition of Live Bands.  less

Brandi Williams interviews Pigeon John, an eclectic hip-hop artist.

Pigeon John got his start at open mic nights with the likes of The Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship and Jurassic 5. Largely influenced by their model of laidback music with a message, Pigeon John has gone   more...on to create a unique sound and charismatic live performance that separates him from any other MC today. Recently dropping the album “Pigeon John’s Summertime Pool Party” on the successful independent label Quannum Projects, Pigeon John is quickly making a name for himself. Come watch Pigeon John as he shares with us how he got his name and style of word flow on this edition of Live Bands.  less

Pigeon John got his start at open mic nights with the likes of The Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship and Jurassic 5. Largely influenced by their model of laidback music with a message, Pigeon John has gone   more...on to create a unique sound and charismatic live performance that separates him from any other MC today. Recently dropping the album “Pigeon John’s Summertime Pool Party” on the successful independent label Quannum Projects, Pigeon John is quickly making a name for himself. Come watch Pigeon John as he shares with us how he got his name and style of word flow on this edition of Live Bands.  less

First pigeon to have a look at our balcony. This year many visit our home to join the House Sparrows eating here. We love any nature we get at our apartment! December 3, 2007. www.members.shaw.ca/RiedelCards

I was in another photo takin’ mood yesterday (as contrasted to a “video takin’ mood” LOL), so wandered over to the “Crystal Pier Hotel” in Pacific Beach, San Diego, California to see what photo opportunities   more...awaited me.

As a kid, I NEVER enjoyed studyin’ history (there were always MUCH more fun things to be doin’ OUTSIDE!) . . . but I noticed that “old people” always seemed to enjoy history, so YEP. . . now that I’m ONE of the “old people”, I enjoy history! (DUH!!) Who coulda seen THAT potentiality comin’ to fruition!!?? LOL

. . . “anyway” (my MOST used word in life BTW!) . . . for any of you other people who enjoy history . . . Crystal Pier began its life as “Pickering’s Pleasure Pier” in 1927. The pier idea was the brainchild of a former Kansas native, Earl Taylor, and was constructed by Earnest Pickering, as a magnet to draw investors to Pacific Beach to buy property. Around 1904, small residential lots in P.B. sold for only $25!!!, and TODAY it costs $375 per NIGHT to rent one of the beautiful, romantic getaway studio type cottages on Crystal Pier in the summer!!, so you can imagine what residential LOTS go for now in P.B.! (As an FYI . . . For any of you romantics who wanna do somethin’ special for your significant other, here’s the website for the Crystal Pier Hotel & Cottages: http://www.crystalpier.com)

. . . “anyway” . . . back to the brief history . . . In 1983 a big winter storm destroyed about 240 feet of the pier, but in 1987 the City rebuilt that area.

The song I chose for the video is “7 Seconds” by 47 year old Senegal, West African singer Youssou N’ Dour (also featuring singer Neneh Cherry). As online Wikipedia Encyclopedia explains: “Youssou helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the Afro-Cuban arrangements and flavors which made the return trip from the Caribbean to West Africa in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and have flourished in West Africa ever since.”

I hope you enjoy “Photos at a Pier” :)  less

I ride over Scenic Drive (El Paso's Mini-Tail of the Dragon) East to West while touching on various topics

You guys think the first episode was great? Wait until you see part 2!!!! Coming next week to Live Bands!!!!

Michigan Avenue Flora and Jackson Street Fauna

In TODAY’S product test, we test out those imitation owls that are promoted as being good pigeon deterrents.

The song is “Bad to Me” by Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas.

Very well done video, great hip hop artist, can't wait to see Episode 2!

Joy of Birds concludes, regaining a little bit of dignity (a little) in this action packed, sad-faced finale! Finally-- THE END! Or is it..?

BIRDS! What, am I supposed to watch the sky as well as the road? Check out my blog http://www.qwerf.com

My daughter and a pigeon in Holland Park.

Footage of a pelican eating a pigeon alive in st James Park London

Messing up an old beater van for fun.

Jack Jhonson

WTF? I suppose a giraffe is going to swallow a hippo next.

Run for your life, it's a giant pigeon!

In the Darkness the creeps come out!

This is what happens when you wear bread boxers.

This is a clip from one of the most overlooked cop-action shows from the 70's.

Guy feeding hundreds of pigeons while London city workers try to clean up.

The next Sportka ad. Not as viral as the other one, but poor bird.


(Commercial Copyright Ford)