I was reading an article about the Rolling Stones in… Rolling Stone magazine and it mentioned how Mick Jagger still mugged it up on stage. That got me thinking about Mick Jagger….which got me thinking about mugging it up…which got … Continue reading
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I worked at a radio station for a while right before Jenny and I were married. We had a phrase for what happened when we weren’t paying attention ( or we ran out of song when we put “Low Spark … Continue reading
I was going to use this song in yesterday’s blog post. It was my daughter’s eighteenth birthday…and I remembered the line in the song that said “and live like a flower”. What could be more fitting than that for … Continue reading
01 Track 1 It’s 4:30 in the morning. At 5:30, I’m going to wake my wife up so she can make some blueberry muffins and decorate the kitchen. No…it’s not some perverse chauvinistic demand. I don’t make her wake up … Continue reading
Memory is a strange chain. I guess it’s strange because it never seems to be very linear. It has links that spread out to the sides, veering off into odd directions, randomly adding to the total length. Until you start … Continue reading
How did we ever get to the point of deciding which plants would be called weeds? Was it all a matter of utility? Did something get in our way one day…and suddenly, for the rest of time, it was to … Continue reading
We got new scanners at work a couple of days ago. Actually, what we got was an add-on for our old scanners. It’s a bluetooth enabled cell phone that’s only set up to communicate with the scanner. I guess it’s … Continue reading
It’s a bunch of hype to say “automobile breakdown”. Let’s just get that out of the way first. The phrase “automobile breakdown” makes it sound like I was stuck on the side of the road, resting in the shade of … Continue reading
My first thought was, “Man….that guy is taking that off ramp a little too fast.” My second thought was, “There’s no off ramp there….” My third thought was, “That’s just like an action movie!!” That’s a lot of thoughts in … Continue reading
I think I’ve heard that in Texas they have a phrase… “all hat no cattle”…that means that someone is pretending to be something they’re not. From all outward appearances, you might think they own a big spread…but the reality of … Continue reading