Lone Star Parson

  What a band. Please disregard Bob Weir's shorts in other videos, a terrible indiscretion. Speaking of which, I knew a couple of nuns ...

  We were driving from Wooton near Woodstock to Oxford, and I was a precocious 8 year old. "What was it like," I asked the driver,...

  Yes, this one's for LL,  who is not a hippy, and here it is. We are stardust. Your Pal, LSP

Here's a short and curious tale to mark the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the greatest hippy gathering the world has ever known. ...

Friday dawned dark as Llandrindod Wells in June, with thunderheads glowering above. Then it started to rain like a Weston Super Mare ...

Joni, stay clear of that lecherous deadbeat Life is full of challenges and we rise or fall on them as we move down the fast flowing...

Because this is a sustainable, green issue, eco-blog we're delighted to present  Tree Hippies. Here at the Compound we hope y...

A famous clergyman once said, "When I was in seminary, there were a lot of people there who were simply evading the draft, so th...

Europe, and Germany in particular, is presented with a choice. Do you want this? Or do you want this? Or is th...

No sooner had peace descended upon the battlefield than a butterfly landed on one of my deadly assault rifles. The pressure w...

Religion of Peace? Tell that to Charlie Hebdo . But at least one thing's for sure, if Mahomet cartoons weren't popular...

Undead I was going to post a short bucolic piece on the therapeutic pleasures of horse riding but got badly hijacked by Drudge and the o...