Happy Birthday, John Doheny! John Steven "Pip" Doheny was born on December 17, 1953, in Seattle, Washington. The song in this video is "Slightly Stella," from the album Parades and Saints by The Real Cool Killers; recorded 11/8/2009.

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This evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride this day down into night,
to sit alone and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand.

Ted Kooser (1939-)