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This blog has been quite dormant. I've had writer's block, unsure just what to say as I've been unsure just what I think about Quakers, religion and other frequent topics of this blog. I've also been building up my technology blog, checking the job boards and spending time with the kids.

I've been wondering if I should downgrade this blog just a bit, think of it not as some important Quaker blog (which it really isn't anymore) but just as my place to talk about things I see. That's how it started back in July 2003 and looking back it took the birth of first son Theodore and my paternity leave that September for the first big articles to make their appearance. I'm also thinking of using this more as a place for comments and to point people to articles I see that I like. I want this to be a place I feel free to have fluffy posts. I took a few minutes to throw a new look on QuakerRanter this morning (that black and brown thing I had before was starting to feel oppressive!).

This morning I'm working on the Pete Seeger section of Quakersong.org, the website of Annie Paterson and Peter Blood (I'm their webmaster). Parts of their site are amazing--the Quakers and Music page has become a directory of sorts for all the many Quaker musicians out there (who knew there were so many!). But the Pete Seeger is still mostly a collection of CDs that Peter & Annie have for sale.

So I was wondering what a good Pete Seeger page might look like and starting surfing around. There's a great fan page which is regularly updated but has bravely decided to maintain its original design since it was founded eleven years ago. And Wikipedia does its usual fine job at a biography. But the gold mine is YouTube.

A year ago a user uploaded three clips from Rainbow Quest, a short-lived TV program Pete put together for a low-wattage UHF station out of Newark in the mid-60s (it's now a Telemundo affiliate broadcasting recycled Mexican soaps for its prime time schedule). I don't know what kind of copyright issues there are on something like this but it's great fun to see these old clips. Making this material widely available is one of the joys of YouTube (well, that and watching recapturing the innocence of our over-commercialized youth). I'll leave you with this, a clip of Pete singing with June Carter and Johnny "I'm soooo stoooned" Cash a few years before they married.