by alan | Jul 26, 2022 | Clarion Rock, Current Issue
The Battle Of Pelusium By Alan Graham The 2nd-century CE writer Polyaenus describes Cambyses II’s approach in his Strategems, which he wrote in the hopes of helping Marcus Aurelius and Verus in their campaigns. Polyaenus recounts how the Egyptians were...
by alan | Jun 9, 2022 | Clarion Rock, Winter 2022
To my great surprise, I have something to report that will make you pleased. If you are like me, and have zero skills when it comes to computers and IPhones, then worry no longer because the great company known as Apple is our saving grace. Recently I have been...
by alan | Nov 26, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock
Jim Morrison: Back to the Sixties, Darkly : Ultimate bad boy’s life story THE DOORS comes to the big screen Danny Sugerman thought that then-hot disco king John Travolta might make a good Morrison. So he introduced him to the Doors–and he and Manzarek...
by alan | Nov 26, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock
In 1968 Admiral Morrison was Commander In Chief of Carrier Division Nine fighting the war in Vietnam. Clara Morrison was visiting the far east at the time and sent back gifts to us including a couple of Happi Coats, I gave one (pictured above) to Lee and we both wore...
by alan | Nov 23, 2021 | Clarion Causes, Clarion Rock
Dateline 1980: Like many of us, I got hip to The Doors after reading, then rereading, No One Here, Gets Out Alive. 1983: My first visit to LA, my hostess seems quite perplexed that the first thing I want to see is a small motel on the corner of La Cienega and...
by alan | Oct 24, 2021 | Autumn 2021, Clarion Rock
I went to Los Angeles for a family reunion and to play a couple of gigs with my band The Ghost Cowboys. My black Stetson hat got beat up in my suitcase and it needed some tender loving care so I want to the nearest Hatter called Baron Hats in downtown LA. Mark...
