The Crow's Nest

I first learned of Bukowski via the Showtime series, Californication when the main character, Hank Moody, would sometimes reference the hard-living, California-based poet/author. I later learned Moody was based...

I have, as I often do with such things, waited to comment on this topic. I find it better to allow the information to more fully disseminate, witness public...

Another year is upon us. Seems the older I get, the more thankful I am for having the simple privilege of making plans. You see, I’m still here. Others...

2016 took a lot of significant names in entertainment, politics and culture from us, but, thank goodness, Willie Nelson remains very much alive. I can recall watching this touching...

I’m not one to shed an easy tear, but boy, this now viral video was one of the most beautiful and touching Christmas morning moments I’ve ever had the...

Yesterday marked the 73rd birthday of a man many once thought would never live to see forty. Keith/Keef Richards is still breathing, which means he’s still rocking. And doing...

John Daly’s son, “Little John” is just 13 years old, but in last week’s PNC Father-Son tournament, (one of my favorite silly-season tourneys to watch) this young man showed...

Call it a pittance, a parting symbolic gesture for an administration with eight years full of such things, or just another chance to smile, nod, and bite his lower...

75 years ago today, America was under attack, and subsequently, on the brink of yet another world war. Few who survived Pearl Harbor are still with us today, and...

With the second installment of the San Juan Islands Mystery Series, DARK WATERS out of the proverbial gate and preparing for the publisher’s initial round of promotions, I decided to take...

For the past week or so, the Little General and I have sat down nearly every evening to watch an episode or two of Netflix’s just-released series, The Crown. Let...

A playful rendition of the Steve Earle classic – an American song embraced fully by the Irish and played a million times over in Irish pubs across the world…...

My latest novel, DARK WATERS is now available for purchase from Amazon. Enjoy – and don’t forget, it would make a great gift! 🙂 Also, please remember to leave a review...

D.W. Ulsterman Newsletter November, 2016 Hello again! After a rather remarkable 2016, another holiday season is upon us. This week we have Thanksgiving, and then in just a few...

A few years back, though by then very much a rock n roll gentleman of wealth and taste, Rolling Stones guitarist and legendary hell-raiser Keith Richards showed there was...

You can pre-order the e-book version of Dark Waters:  HERE “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none...

Leonard Cohen was a poet who happened to perform his words via song, a sort of suit-and-tie version of Bob Dylan. Cohen’s work is dark, yearning, contradictory prose that...

I watched, bemused, as the pre-Election Night pollsters and pundits lined up to declare Hillary Clinton the winner before the first votes had actually been counted. There was something...

God bless those who have managed to keep some of us around, yeah? To this day, even after all these years, I sometimes wake up to the sound of...

What a fascinating, confounding, and at times, oddly entertaining election cycle this has been. Hillary Clinton’s ascent to being the 2016 Democrat nominee was no surprise, of course, though...

SPOILER FREE: Nicholas Sparks is something of a guilty pleasure. Yes, his stories are formulaic, with his oft-repeated method of parallel plots culminating in predictably syrupy-sweet conclusions, but, gosh...

Great news! Dark Waters (the sequel to, The Writer) has been give the green light from the publisher! Working out the details now, but hoping to have a pre-order...

Just a little over a month before he passed, Arnold Palmer made an appearance at the Royal Golf Club in Minnesota, which his course design company is working in conjunction with...

My long-running RACE WARS series continues to sell well. I have mixed feelings about that, and when I see what is now happening in a beautiful place like Charlotte, North Carolina,...

I saw this number performed by the Stones live back in the late 90’s during their fantastic Bridges to Babylon tour. It is a song that, if released by...

So I’m brushing my teeth this morning, and what do I hear coming from the TV in the bedroom but that long-ago song by Tom Petty, Learning to Fly....

THOSE EYES. Ben Hogan was a man of smallish stature, but his sheer grit and steely-eyed demeanor intimidated nearly everyone around him. Here is “The Hawk” in the autumn...

We have risen. But those lost must never be forgotten, so we must never forget. Few do it better than Mr. Springsteen… There’s a blood red circle On the...

I never much cared for Star Wars. You see, from a very young age, it was always Star Trek re-runs for me. And now Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi masterpiece is...

Like battle-hardened and seemingly ageless soldiers of wealth and taste, the Rock -n- Roll circus that is the Rolling Stones marched through Latin America last year, entertaining millions, and...

One of the great things about the Internet is its use as a way-back time machine. So let’s take a trip, shall we, to an early-90’s band hailing out...

Just a quick (and grateful) reminder to all of you who have read my latest novel, THE WRITER, to leave a review at its Amazon page HERE The publisher will be...

Rather like this one… —————–  

I like to give it a day or two before commenting on something like the past weekend rematch between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz bout. That gives the more...

Love me some Roadies. Showtime’s original series  joint-effort with longtime Rock -n- Roll quasi-documentarian Cameron Crowe, starts off a bit slow, but then the tour bus gets a rollin’ and...

Sixty-five minutes. Another American military veteran gone. We can do better for those who have already done enough. My longtime readers know well my feelings regarding the sacrifices our...

From one iconic legend to another. John Lennon is long gone. Bob Dylan is still here. And so Dylan reflects on that very thing. He doesn’t give us the...

A little gem from Mr. John Lennon, whose own abrupt ending makes these words that much more poignant… Roll on John… https://vimeo.com/77656372 —————–

The last six weeks have been a flurry of activity doing promotion for the first installment of my San Juan Islands Mystery series, THE WRITER , and the ongoing work in...

A haunting reflection on past addictions, a life nearly lost, and the woman who fought by his side to keep that life intact. And a true story… (Make note...