Wild Wooly Band at Pryme Tyme — November 15, 2019
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I just downloaded a vulgarity governor app on my phone - it's really cool; it changes all my profane words to gosh. For example, if I say "gosh" it changes it to "gosh." I mean when I say gosh it......
Rick Ankiel, 0.1. Players with at least 40 home runs and 40 games pitched: Babe Ruth (714, 163) Rick Ankiel (76, 51) Johnny Lindell (72, 55) George Van Haltren (69, 93) Cy Seymour (52, 141) Ruth (93), Seymour (61) and Van...
Terry, July 8, 2021 A few new rules, for a better game: Let the pitchers have the spider tack. Let ‘em all have the ‘roids. Shrink the strike zone two inches and lower it to the bottom of the knees....
Is death itself disturbing? Or is it the realization that death is coming despite you putting every human molecule of your will into surviving? Three disturbing scenes I've seen in movies: A 13-year-old girl who just had her first kiss...
April 7, 2022 AL EAST Winner: Tampa BayWild Card: TorontoWild Card: Boston Toronto has a loaded lineup, what could be a pretty good infield defense and an imported rotation full of veterans who they hope will stay healthy surrounding top prospect...
Obituaries
When I think about Bob Lanier, I think three things: Great player on a team with no directionHuge feet (size 22 shoes)Airplane! Lanier was the prototypical 20-10 player; he averaged 20.1 points and 10.1 rebounds over his 14-year career. He...
Gino Cappelletti was the Paul Hornung of the AFL, a hybrid player who could beat you from any direction. Primarily a kicker, defensive back and wide receiver, he scored 42 career touchdowns and an AFL record 1,130 points in the...
Paul Vance was a prolific songwriter and producer who wrote over a thousand songs that made it to vinyl. He is best-known as half of the Vance/Pockriss writing team that wrote “Leader of the Laundromat,” “Catch a Falling Star, “Tracy,”...
If I set out to compile a list of the best musical families, several obvious names would come first (and then the Interweb would flood me with dozens of others): the Jacksons, the Carter/Cash family, the Osmonds (stop laughing), the...
I feel like she was too famous for one of my usual obits ... it would take me weeks to write a proper obituary for Loretta Lynn, and a book publisher to get it distributed. So how about ten things...
Book Reports
A group of us were having our men’s group and talking about men displaying their emotions and it being Ok for men to cry. While this is more acceptable in society now, I think some people are judgmental about it....
Chuck Cunningham was a character on a show that started in January 1974 and lasted 11 seasons. He was the older brother of the Cunningham family the main family of the show. The star of the show was Ron Howard...
This book was written by Emily M. Danforth. I bought it at a major book chain based on the writeup on the back. Earlier on this site, I reviewed a book called “The Ten Thousand Doors of January” with my...
This book was written by Alix E. Harrow who is a good writer, but I thought there was somethings missing from her book “The Ten Thousand Doors of January”. First of all, my wife bought the book on Kindle, and...
Terry July 3, 2021 “If This Goes On — " is the story of a revolution to wrest control of the United States back from a fundamentalist totalitarian regime, founded by Reverend Nehemiah Scudder, that sprouted up after WWIII destroyed Europe...
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A group of us were having our men’s group and talking about men displaying their emotions and it being Ok for men to cry. While this is more acceptable in society now, I think some people are judgmental about it....
This book was written by Emily M. Danforth. I bought it at a major book chain based on the writeup on the back. Earlier on this site, I reviewed a book called “The Ten Thousand Doors of January” with my...
This book was written by Alix E. Harrow who is a good writer, but I thought there was somethings missing from her book “The Ten Thousand Doors of January”. First of all, my wife bought the book on Kindle, and...
Gary, July 8, 2021 I probably engage in more communications online than I do in person. Talking past each other is a common phenomenon even in (or more likely even more than) face to face situations. It consists of me...
Halfway home, just above Emerald Bay, I overtook the worst driver in the world. Ross MacDonald / Gone Girl I’ve always considered Ross MacDonald, known for his series of Lew Archer detective novels, a great writer with a unique,...
