almanac: How to get a real human on the phone Posted by gregor on Monday, November 07 @ 10:00:33 EST (1455 reads) TopicHober's Almanac
Here is another helpful reference link for our collection here on the almanac.
This list contains the help-desk dialing codes that will make a real person answer the phone at 100 major corporations. Saves a lot of time playing the revolving automated phone game.
700 HOBO NAMES Posted by gregor on Tuesday, October 25 @ 18:30:31 EDT (2465 reads) TopicWhat's New in the Inbox?
Now here is something. Your knowledge of Americana is not complete without making it all the way through "700 HOBO NAMES as read by the author". As much as we'd like you to listen to Hober every waking minute, go over and try this one.
New CD Music in the General Store Posted by gregor on Sunday, July 17 @ 17:42:38 EDT (1325 reads) TopicNew in the General Store
There are three new titles available for purchase online:
Buried Land - a collection of folk song and poetry by Jim Clark https://banqa.uaqa.com/hober/catalog/46366242.html
Zoe Wood & Larry Evans - Fungal Boogie songs about mushrooms
http://banqa.uaqa.com/hober/catalog/14307987.html
Big Blow and the Bushwackers - What Didjuredoo The re-release of the Bushwaker's long out or print first album.
http://banqa.uaqa.com/hober/catalog/39894211.html
I'll bet that many Hober listeners also know and use the book Rise Up Singing. I would love to hear from anybody who knows of a group who sings from this book on a regular basis and will tell me how you use it and how you organize.
Aloha from Maui,
Larry Sarner
email me: LSarner -at- maui.net
almanac: Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing Posted by gregor on Thursday, June 23 @ 11:01:59 EDT (1499 reads) TopicHober's Almanac
Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing.
