My FAVORITE pages on this web site

by “The Bicycling Guitarist” Chris Watson

There are over 200 pages on this web site. These are my personal favorites, the ones I consider to be my best work.

songs

Red Baron song accurately describes the character and career of a World War One aviation hero. This song has a music video on YouTube (hyperlink near the top of the page).
Death describes the experience of watching one's parents die and asks questions about an afterlife.
What Can I Say? is a song about the limitations of language. These are some of my best lyrics.
Early Morning Hours describes feelings I felt strongly for many years. R Band used to open every live show and every practice session with this song.
Evolution is a fun song about the FACT of evolution. There is a link near the bottom of this page that goes to “Chris's comments” about this song, and that page provides links to go to other pages about this subject.
Prayer is another song I wrote that I like more than some of the other songs I've written. I added to its comments page in 2007, so that page reflects some of my latest thoughts on this subject.

Ishi, the last Yahi describes and proposes reasons for how the last wild Native American was portrayed by the media of his time.
It's the same thing describes the base metaphor of the Mescalero Apache people, their awareness of the interconnectedness of reality.
In the Company of Eagles is a “cultural analysis” of a novel about revenge and mercy in the context of World War I aerial combat. I did some linguistic and historical detective work in the analysis of this novel and its author, Ernest K. Gann.
Fokker Triplane speech is a concise and accurate summary of what is known about this famous World War I fighter aircraft. First written and published in 1997, I added some new information in 2008.
Victory Through Air Power is an essay about an influential 1942 book by Alexander P. de Seversky. I check his facts against modern sources and explore connections between some aircraft, events, and famous people.
the essence of Buddhism offers my interpretation of the essential meaning of Buddhism, influenced by the controversial scholars Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts.