Non Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #27 for 2026...

"Killer's Wedge" the 8th 87th Precinct Novel.

Written by Ed McBain, Published 1959.

"High Points" along trails during October, 2026... 

• Blueberry Hill, Phelon Forest (NEFF), Granville, MA (and other peaks within Phelon NEFF)

• Phelon Memorial Forest in Granville, two trailheads on North Lane take you to the summit of Blueberry Hill with long views to Russell, Sweetman Mountain, Mount Tom and the Holyoke Range. Perched up above Cobble Mountain Reservoir the trails here are spectacular for bird watching and is a popular hawk watch destination. More than 1,000 acres are conserved by the New England Forestry Foundation. 

• The property’s 1,487-foot summit allows visitors to see into five different states on clear days, and it becomes an even more awe-inspiring spot during seasonal raptor migrations, when birders and field biologists settle into the hillside to count birds and watch a wonder of the natural world unfurl. Hawks like the Broad-winged Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk and Red-tailed Hawk make up the bulk of the hill’s sightings, and birders on the hill once counted 2,406 migratory Broad-winged Hawks on a single day.

• Burlingame Hill, Adams. Massachusetts.

Refreshing the routes from North Hollow continues, 3.7-miles today.

Dermotology check-up went well. 

ArchaeoEd Podcast

Get ready to embark on a time-traveling adventure with legendary archaeologist, Dr. Ed Barnhart!

Let's unearth the stories of the awe-inspiring civilizations of the Americas. 

These are the tales that only get a fleeting mention in western history books.

ArchaeoEd, S6E1 "How I Mapped Palenque - Part 4"

Episode 6.1 - "How I Mapped Palenque - Part 4 - ArchaeoEd S6E1"

The year was 1999.  Ed and his crew started year two of the Palenque Mapping Project.  Ed recounts the story - snakes, pyramids, tombs, and a visit from the President of Mexico! 

Walking - Hiking Plan:

                                        3-Miles along Main Street.

4.1-Miles at North Hollow around Valley Brook. 

To Adams with K2 to assist Pop with Turnip and Wood.

Rock and Roll Heaven added another member today...

Richard Lloyd, guitarist with the Television, passed at age 75 (Nov 7th).

In the summer of 1973, Music Manager Terry Ork and Richard Lloyd went to Reno Sweeney's one night where Richard saw Tom Miller (later Tom Verlaine) play three songs. Lloyd leaned over to Ork during the second song and told him that this fellow had something, but was missing something, and what he was missing, Lloyd had. He advised Ork that if he [Terry] could convince Tom, the combination of Lloyd and Miller would make the band Ork was looking for. This was the beginning of the formation of the band Television. 

Miller would eventually change his last name to Verlaine and Richard Meyers became Richard Hell and promised to learn the bass as they went along. With the addition of Billy Ficca on drums, the quartet was complete, though Hell would be replaced by Fred Smith in 1975. Television rehearsed seven days a week for five or six hours a day during the fall and winter of 1973, and made their first public performance on March 2, 1974, at the Town House Theatre on W. 44th St.

Television were looking for a club where they could develop an audience and play more often as the house band, when Verlaine spotted a guy putting up the awning on a bar on the Bowery which stood under a flophouse for homeless alcoholics. Verlaine and Lloyd went back up and discussed the possibility of playing in this new club, which was to be called CBGB.  After Television's manager Ork promised CBGB a large take at the bar, Television was given a gig at the end of March 1974. 

Television was signed to Elektra Records in 1977. They recorded two albums for Elektra: Marquee Moon and Adventure. As a debut release in 1977, Marquee Moon remains on lists of greatest albums in rock and roll history, and never has been out of print. After recording Adventure in 1978, and finding success elusive in the United States, Television disbanded after a successful series of dates at New York's The Bottom Line. The various members went their separate ways, although all of them continued in the music industry, occasionally to reunite.

Though Verlaine and Lloyd were nominally "rhythm" and "lead" guitarists respectively, they often performed interlocking parts with no clear rhythm or lead player. Lloyd described their partnership as almost telepathic. Al Handa writes that Lloyd more often shaped the tonality of the music, while Verlaine and the rhythm section provided its anchor, and that Lloyd's playing contains "truly off the wall ideas". Matt LeMay of Pitchfork noted that, like the Velvet Underground before them, Television's songs focus on interplay and exploration rather than individual melodies and chord progressions.

After Television first disbanded in 1978, Lloyd released a solo album for Elektra Records, titled Alchemy.  His solo career included work as a guitarist and session musician for various artists including Matthew Sweet, John Doe (of the band X), and Swiss singer-songwriter Stephan Eicher. In 1990, Lloyd recorded a version of the Roky Erickson/13th Floor Elevators song "Fire Engine", which was included on the tribute album compilation Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye. In 1989, he appeared on several tracks of Matthew Sweet's second album, Earth; in 1991 he contributed guitar parts to Sweet's critically-acclaimed album Girlfriend.  As of 2006, he had appeared on six of Sweet's studio albums.

In March 2026, Lloyd was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma. He died at his home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 7, 2026, at the age of 75.

Solo discography

• Alchemy (1979)
• Field of Fire (1986)
• The Cover Doesn't Matter (2001)
• The Radiant Monkey (2007)
• The Jamie Neverts Story (2009)
• Lodestones (2010)
• Rosedale (2016)
• The Countdown (2018)

Television Studio albums

• Marquee Moon (1977)
• Adventure (1978)
• Television (1992)

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To Space Ballroom with J Evil, Lunacy opened for A Place to Bury Strangers.  Awesome Show!

3-Mile Walk along Main Street mid-day.