Diane and I visited the Execution Rocks light on July 4, 2009, as part of the first group ever to take a public tour at this lighthouse. This is, in my opinion, the second most historically-important lighthouse on Long Island. Here is some video from the day, shot with my helmetcam/basscam/lighthousecam. The audio was not good (That has been the hardest part of my trials with this camera) so I overdubbed some live Juke House songs from the previous Saturday.

Here's a little video I took while driving an all-electric (not a hybrid) Mini Cooper. There are only 500 of these in the US - I get to drive one about 40-60 miles a day at my job (yeah, it's a rough life). Here's a video I shot earlier today with my helmet cam (sans helmet, of course). If you have headphones and good hearing, you may be able to hear my narrative. I had the audio on low, so I will have to reshoot it but, for now, you can get an idea of what it looks and drives like. The little bugger is pretty fast. 200hp AC motor. Gets the equivalent of 102MPG City/94MPG Highway. Handles real nice, and is much roomier inside than it looks from the outside. It gets up to 95 miles on a full charge. Using my GPS, phone charger, the AC, etc. probably diminishes that range a bit. In the video, you can see the power meter (roughly the equivalent of a tachometer) in the speedometer (it's the moving orange-red lights near the middle). It has very little storage room, which is probably my biggest complaint at this point. Switching from a Ford Ranger to this Mini-E is requiring that I rethink my mobile office setup.

This is a clip from my first test of my new helmetcam. It's nothing exciting, just a dusk ride across the two bridges (one at a slightly-higher-than-legal speed). The bike is my Ducati S2r1000 Monster.

Here I am with my band, Night Train, playing at the annual Hounds on the Sound fundraiser at Port Jefferson Harbor. Given the occasion, we just had to play Funky Bitch (I didn't have to goof up near the end, though, but I did -- hey it was 95 degrees and humid and I was sleep-deprived, dehydrated and hung over). It's a fun song, and this was the first time I used my 2008 custom Carvin five-string bass live. My bandmates are awesome: Nancy Bahnsen, our lead singer (she just plays tambourine on this tune, but does it damn well)... Bob Oven, our harmonica player (who sings lead on this song)... Jimmy Goldstein, our wildman guitarist and musical director... and Scott Wallace, our steady, driving drummer. These guys are so cool to play with. And we've only been together as a band for five months -- a year from now this band should be deadly.

Juke House playing the Clayton Anderson & the Wellingtons tune, I Must Be Crazy.

Here's Wobbles the Special Needs Lighthouse Kitty at the Point Judith Lighthouse on a recent trip. This video was taken by his friend Jackie. Wobbles has been to about 25 lighthouses since 2004, but this is the first time he was caught on video. In this short video, he walks down a hill, sniffs some flowers and walks back over to his carrier. You can read more about Wob at www.LighthouseKitty.com, and he is also in the new book by Elinor DeWire: The Lighthouse Menagerie. A children's book about Wobbles is in the works. His MySpace page is www.myspace.com/wobbleskitty