Dean Olson

Dean Olson’s own contributions to StrongWriter including interviews, music, and articles.

We The People Celebrate Constitution Day!

By Dean Olson On this day — September 17th, 2013 — you and I, as proud Americans, celebrate the 226th anniversary of the formal signing of one of the grandest documents ever conceived by human hands … The Constitution of the United States of America!   Or as many have called it, the Supreme Law of…

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Happy Declaration Of Independence!!

Happy Birthday to the greatest country on the face of the earth.  It took a massive effort to get this experiment underway known as the United States Of America.  Every July 4th, we should take just a moment to pray for LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, and that those ideals may live forever….

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Adam Carolla On Luck (Prager University)

A refreshing new professor just started his first course at Dennis Prager’s online university, and he is comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla.  Course #1 is shown below, and it’s a pretty good one.  However, I shook my head in disappointment when I saw the comments box on YouTube for this video.  Adam has a pithy but valuable…

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Billy Bragg on “How To” Write a Song?

Billy Bragg has songwriting advice to offer.  Or does he? This video shows the UK artist and ubiquitous left-wing socialist interviewing with Daytrotter.com/Seagate Creative. Okay, maybe I am getting bored with all the attention going to musicians and songwriters with this political bent.  Sorry, people.  The musical world has a rich history of their works….

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Eclectic Songwriter Field Trip: Big Bear Fun Run / Top 10 Songs Written About a Car (Part 2)

The people’s list of top ten songs written about cars.  Thanks to all the people at the 2010 Big Bear Fun Run for their input….

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Eclectic Songwriter Field Trip: Big Bear Fun Run / Top 10 Songs Written About a Car (Part 1)

The Big Bear Fun Run is a major fund raising effort in the form of a car show held every year on the second weekend in August in the village of Big Bear Lake.  On average, you can see about 400 classic vehicles at this exhibition.  In 1982, a group of people who shared a…

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Top 10 Songs About a Car (Eclectic TV Field Trip)

One of the more popular field trips on Eclectic TV, even though Dean didn’t get any interviews on-camera!

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Ali Handal Has a New Book!

            Interviewed a wonderful young woman at the NAMM Show.ALI HANDAL has a handy book for girls 11 & up who wanna rock!bit.ly/Vtep3k — StrongWriter (@StrongWriterDO) February 1, 2013  

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Gary Sinise – Humble Servant For the American Soldier

Gary Sinise is very inspiring to our men and women veterans, as this documentary from 2011 shows.  He plays the bass and touches lives with his Lt. DAN BAND, a USO driven act pumping out cover tunes and lifting spirits for our finest Americans!  By now, you know the band and what they do, but…

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