On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

Podcast Episode 3 now live on Spotify and Apple.  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alhanda/episodes/On-The-Road-With-Al--Ivy-Episode-3-e2k5k0q Topics: The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Three Musketeers by Dumas, and the Robin Hood myth. Some thoughts on Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck, On The Road by Kerouac Scroll Version, and The Road by Jack London. Music: My Dog Dreams And Becomes A Mermaid Techno Mix, Sunday's Moon and Nigel Raga by Handa-McGraw International. Taylor's Blues by Mark McGraw

On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast: Episode 2 Live on Spotify.  Will be live on Apple and YouTube Music with a day or two. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deltasnake/episodes/On-The-Road-With-Al--Ivy-Episode-2-e2jsa5l  Topics:   - The homeless literature of Jack London and George Orwell with commentary.   - The Kind Elderly Lady (aka Somebody's Grandmother) Excerpt from On The Road With Al & Ivy: The Anthology Vol. 2 - 2016-2018 Music:   Sunday's Moon by Handa-McGraw International   Mississippi John On The Mainline and Taj'n 'Round by Mark McGraw Intro and outro music: My Dog Dreams and Becomes A Mermaid (techno version) by Handa-McGraw International   #podcast #literature #homeless #blog #jacklondon #georgeorwell

Update on Podcast: Changing back to the original blog format There's one more change to the podcast format, which is in many of the descriptions of the show, the old title of the blog is going to be used again. It will read "On The Road With Al & Ivy: A Literary Homeless Chronicle." The reason is that it will allow me to incorporate material from my ebook and past blog entries that relate to homelessness. In other words, the podcast is simply going back to the old blog format that started in 2016 which covered literary and cultural issues occasionally from a homeless point of view. I may sound naive or clueless when I say that the main reason I had moved to a more literary format was that I actually thought the homeless issue was going to either go away or be reduced by the influx of help and money that was occurring even back in 2016.  There have been huge sums of money spent and the creation of many local and government services, yet the problem has been getting wor...