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[Photo source] Bobby Durham: February 3, 1937 | Died: July 6, 2008 This poem is dedicated to Bobby Durham , the late drummer who passed away in Italy recently. It was read, today, Feb 15 at his memorial service in Basel, Switzerland, by singer Sandy Patton. Bully Muldoon by Joan Cartwright This is a story of Bully Muldoon We met in Philly in a smoky saloon Pricie played the keys, I sang the words While Benny strummed the bassline, strong That Bulldog was like a cartoon Always smiling and making us laugh But playing the drums was his passion He was rhythm, alive, what a gas! Now, the reason they called him Bully Muldoon Had nothing to do with a drum They were a trio, The Canine Trio Is how they'd announce when they'd come The Great Dane, that was Benny Nelson on bass And Gerald Price the Doberman Pincher They'd save Bobby for last cause he was a gas He's The Pitt Bull and he'll bite your ass! When Pricie would say this, I'd burst into laughter I was young, but st...

In the world, a collective of sensory experience shared offers to many an agreed upon experience with the effect of presenting a consummate sense of human community in time and space. In conventional time (the multi-dimensional world existing in a non-unific sense of time and space) the notion of singularity is at best a notion on a shelf. The unifying thought then is one of multi-dimensionality, having the nature of being more than one place at one time. It also defies the parochial sense of limitation because humans are often bound by their five-sense appreciation of the world. We never stop to consider that of those five senses, vision is the only thing that happens outside of 200 meters around you and, if we are to understand the universe, we would first consider that the world is much broader than what our five senses can tell. Multi-dimensionality offers color where, before, there was only black and white. It offers depth where, before, there was only length and width. It offer...