Saturday's Child: Rebel Jesus Cover by Bob Loomis

Happy Holidays, all! Taking a day off from my original song posts to share this one. I hope you like it.

Saturdays Child: Roundtrip Soundtrip by Bob Loomis

My weekly original song post. I hope you enjoy it!

Saturday's Child: Baker's Cove by Bob Loomis

My weekly original song post for 12-11-2021.  I hope you enjoy it!

Saturday's Child: New Gypsy Blues by Bob Loomis

My weekly original song post for 12-04-2021. This one is a new version of a song that dates back to 1970. Enjoy!

Saturdays Child: Maybe I Just Need by Bob Loomis

My weekly original song post for 11-27-2021. Enjoy!

Saturdays Child: Old Man Blues by Bob Loomis

My 11/20/2021 weekly original song post, I hope you enjoy it and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Saturday's Child: Ordinary Joe by Bob Loomis

Another of my original songs, this one with a slightly eery feel. I hope you enjoy it!

Saturday's Child: Song for Bill by Bob Loomis

Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoy it!

Saturdays Child: Rebar Wall Dream by Bob Loomis

Thanks, and Happy Halloween!

Saturdays Child, 10-23-2021: Ode to Tic Toc Burgers by Bob Loomis

Thanks for watching, have a great new week!

Saturday's Child, 10-16-2021: TV Guru Blues by Bob Loomis

A commentary on TV advertising. Have a great week!

Saturday's Child, 10-09-2021: The Carbon Footprint Blues by Bob Loomis - Enjoy!

Saturday's Child, 10-02-2021: To Make Money by Bob Loomis

I hope you enjoy it!

Sunday Funnies, 09-26-2021: Caption Contest!

 

Saturday's Child, 09-25-2021: Another Autumn by Bob Loomis

Saturday's Child, 09-18-2021: Thinking of The Time by Bob Loomis

Sunday Funnies: 09-12-2021

Sunday Funnies is on sabbatical. How long depends on how long it takes me to come up with something new. Anything new. Got totally pulled back into music last week and got very little artwork done. And I've run out of old stuff to recycle. So I'm using a quick carrot this time ... but next time I'll use the stick (in the form of a drawing pen). Are there blue carrots? There's blue corn. Actually, this one looks sorta green. Have a great, safe and healthy week and may all sentient beings know peace, love and joy.

Saturdays Child: Delta Sorta Woman

My weekly original song share. I hope you enjoy it!

Sunday Funnies, 09-05-2021

 

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Saturday's Child, 09-04-2021: One Of Those Mornings by Bob Loomis

Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed it!

Sunday Funnies? 08-29-2021

 

Have a great week, all!

Saturday's Child: Another New Day by Bob Loomis

My weekly original song share. I hope you enjoy it, thanks for watching!

Sunday Sermon, 08-21-2021: Mask Up!

 

Have a great, safe week!

Saturday's Child, 08-21-2021: I Hope It Never Ends by Bob Loomis

I hope you enjoy this tune!

Sunday Funnies: 08-15-2021: The Clutter, The Clutter!

 

Have a great, clutter-free week!

Saturday's Child, 08-14-2021: Three-day Weekend by Bob Loomis

My weekly original, I hope you enjoy it!

Sunday Sketches: Mexico Trip, 1987

 In 1987, Beverly and I took a trip to Cancun, Yucatan, Mexico. Beverly was a veteran Mexico traveler. It was my first trip to mainland Mexico and I loved it. Herewith the few sketches I managed to do there. Wish I had done more. I hope you enjoy these!

1. We took a ferry from Puerto Juarez to Isla Mujeres and stayed at El Presidente hotel, which was located on a spit of sand east of the north beach.  The next year, 1988, the hotel was totally destroyed by Hurricane Gilbert. It has never been restored because of the frequency of hurricanes on that coast. 

2. The swimming pool at El Presidente, where a pair of frigate birds fighting over a fish dropped their prey into the pool next to Beverly with a loud "Splat!". Some text from my journal is included:

3. A very hasty sketch I did from memory of one of the huts we saw on a bus trip to Chichen-Itza. That simple bus ride (and other travels) opened my eyes to how dramatically different from our lives in the United States much of the world. To hear about that is one thing, to see it, another.

More photos of the ruins of El Presidente are here: http://www.earthdancer.org/MPix/ElPres.html

Thanks and have a great week!

Saturdays Child: Alien Commuters by Bob Loomis

Sunday Funnies, 08-01-2021: Pages From The Past

Watching the current Olympic Games brought to mind this old strip from about 25 years ago:

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Saturdays Child, 07-31-2021: Honeyboy by Bob Loomis

A song I wrote sort of in the style of Leon Redbone. I hope you like it!

Sunday Funnies, 07-25-2021: Dream Journal

 A dream of fame and fortune:

Have a great week!

Saturday's Child: Almost Everything The Hard Way by Bob Loomis

Another of my original tunes. I hoe you like it!

Sunday Funnies, 07-18-2021: Caption Contest Winners!

 I'm taking a day off today for a special event. But I do have the winners of last week's caption contest: Peter Margolies and Beverly Byrd Loomis ("What's for dinner?"). Can't give the prize to my spouse, that'd be nepotism, so Pete's the winner. Have a great week!:

Saturday's Child: Kaua'i MyTrue Home by Bob Loomis

Another of my weekly original song postings. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching! And Aloha!

Sunday Funnies: 07-11-2021

 

This two-handed drawing exercise was done a while back. If you are so moved, submit your captions as what the woman is saying. Thanks and have a great week!

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Saturday's Child: Don't Take The Big Trees by Bob Loomis

I wrote this song in 1997 after listening on KPFA-FM Radio to the hearings in Oakland about redwood logging in the Scotia CA area by a corporation that had purchased the longtime sustainable Louisiana Pacific business and intended to clearcut the area. It's one of my few protest songs. That battle was won, sort of, but there are still attempts being made to take the old trees. I hope you like the song. Copyright Robert Loomis, all rights reserved. If interested in putting this song in your repertoire, contact me at: miltloomis(at)yahoo.com Thanks!

Sunday Funnies, 07-04-2021

It's funny, but I have very mixed feelings about this holiday.  When I was a kid of course, I loved fireworks, especially the big packs of little firecrackers we'd get with the help of adults.  But as an adult and a reporter I covered quite a few stories of folks who blew off fingers, hands, feet, etc., while setting off fireworks. Plus, I've seen how the M80 and M100 and other explosions make pets tremble with fear. Of course, they remind me of war. IMHO we've had enough wars. But this holiday also commemorates what has been so far the greatest experiment in democracy in the history of Western civilization. So in that sense, I join in the celebration and pray that we are able to continue that worthy effort.

Saturday's Child: All I Want To Do Is Sing And Play Ukulele By Bob Loomis

Sunday Funnies, 06-27-2021: Pages From The Past, 07-31-1995

 

Memoirs of A Music Addict, Part 3: One of Life's Lessons

 

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Saturday's Child: Frisco Blues by Bob Loomis, 06-19-2021

Sunday Sketches: 06-13-2021

A few efforts in old notebooks from back when I was trying to emulate Japanese brush painting with markers, circa 1991 or so. With apologies to the real brush masters.

Saturday's Child, 06-12-2021: Hot California Days

 My weekly original song, enjoy!

Sunday Funnies, 06-06-2021

 Pages From The Past: 10-08-1995: I shared this seven years ago, but it's worth a re-run.

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Saturday's Child, 06-05-2021: Hey Nonny Nonny

Another of my original tunes, this one in memory of Johnny Otis: 

Sunday Funnies, 05-30-2021

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Saturday's Child: Our Love Is Like The Wild Rose

 My weekly sharing of one of my original songs. I hope you enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU5bSvq3u3s

Sunday Funnies: Pages From The Past:

 May/June 1996:

Saturday's Child: Permanent Blues

My weekly original tune. Haven't been sharing these here but will do so from here on. Enjoy!

Sunday Funnies: 05-09-2021

 

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Memoirs of A Music Addict, Part 2

 I'm working on Part 3, which I hope to have ready by around this time next month. Part 1 was posted here on March 7, 2021. - R. Loomis

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Sunday Funnies, 04-25-2021: Dream Journal

 A couple of  recent weird ones to share here:

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Sunday Funnies, 04-18-2021

Taking a day off today, just posting this scene I sketched of a sweet March 31 afternoon playing flutes and whistle on the back deck with our late, great cat Stumpy meatloafing in the sun. Needs "colorizing" but I'm too lazy to do it right now. Have a great Sunday!

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Sunday Funnies, 04-11-2021

Those truly annoying robocalls! This cartoon inspired by actual news. The story I read about it is here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2021/04/09/the-supreme-court-just-gutted-a-thirty-year-old-law-against-robocalls/?sh=5ca3cadc7935

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Sunday Funnies, 04-04-2021: The Week in Review

Onward and upward with the arts ... and Happy Easter whether or not or in whatever form you observe or do not observe it. May all your chocolate eggs be free of bloody yolks!

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Sunday Funnies: Pages From The Past, 07-14-1995:

 And I thought I was old then!

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Sunday Funnies, 03-21-2021

 OK, I lied, I happened to come up with this for this week even though I said I would not be doing Sunday Funnies because of work on my memoirs:

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Memoirs of a Music Addict, Chapter 1

 Seville Street:

To Be Continued

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