Saturday, April 7, 2007

Mark St. John, 1956-2007

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I w as very saddened to learn of the death of former Kiss guitarist Mark St. John on Thursday of a cerebral hemorrhage.  Mark had the prove...

It's Easter Eve--Lay (or break) An Egg!

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THE HOUSE IS ROCKIN' (AGAIN!) I decided after nearly 25 years, it was time to upgrade my stereo system, so I bought a new amplifier and...
Thursday, April 5, 2007

Separated at birth?

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Is it just me, or does the sausage on the far left not bear a striking resemblance to this guy?

More stuff

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DARRYL STINGLEY, 1951-2007 Former New England Patriots player Darryl Stingley died today at age 55.  He was a rising young star at wide rec...
Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Let it rain!

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Time to praise what is probably the finest Rock band Kansas City has ever produced, The Rainmakers.  They were all excellent musicians and ...
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It's Salisbury Steak day!

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Well, surely it is at SOME elementary school out there, one would think... SO FUNNY I FORGOT TO LAUGH Your Vice-President poked fun at Du...
Monday, April 2, 2007

"Gimme that chomp-chomp..."

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The late Danny Joe Brown and Molly Hatchet nailed it on their first album almost 30 years ago, because this is indeed "Gator Country...

My "Field of Dreams"

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Being as it's Opening Day and all, I think it's appropriate to honor the first Big League stadium I ever set foot in, Kansas City...

Let us pray...

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"Dear Lord...May our bats be swift, and may our balls be plentiful."— Jimmy Dugan, A League of Our Own Well, in the case of the...
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Odds but no ends

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'THE DAY THE MUSIC WAS SHOT?'—EPILOGUE Just wanted to publish a bit of a retraction on my previous rants about the whole Big Bopper...

Great Moments in T-Shirt Making

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CARRY ME BACK TO OL' VIRGINA! This is the design for the championship t-shirts that NIT tournament officials doled out the other night.....
Friday, March 30, 2007

World's Most Annoying TV Characters of All-Time

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Dispensing with the more obvious ones like Urkel, Eddie Haskell, Scrappy-Doo and the Great Gazoo, here’s a little rundown of TV characters w...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

New Business/Old Business

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"MISTAKES WERE MADE" Seems the family of Pat Tillman is dissatisfied with the results that were announced this week by the Bush A...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Da Raidas!

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Since I yap about them so much on here, why don't I just give a little shout out to the most underrated Rock 'N' Roll band of al...
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Just catching up...

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HAPPY 60TH, SIR REGINALD! I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge one young Reginald Kenneth Dwight's (aka Sir Elton John) 60th b...

CSI: Clear Lake, IA

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On the way home yesterday, I stopped by the famed Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens/Big Bopper plane crash site, hoping to find bullet fragments, ...

You have Xcel-ed, Young Grasshoppers!

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I spent a glorious Saturday evening in St. Paul, Minnesota at "Insert-Corporate-Name-Here" Arena, better known as the Xcel Energy ...

Where's that confounded bridge?

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Earlier in the day before the hockey game in Des Moines, I went on a fun little adventure checking out the famed Bridges of Madison County—a...

"We were a bit early for Des Moines..."

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I 'm quoting Ray Manzarek of The Doors, regarding the 1967 show they played in Iowa's capital city to a paying audience of 34 dumbs...

Back in the saddle again...

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I have returned!  It was a fine little weekend sabbatical in the Upper Midwest, details of which I will pass along in subsequent posts, as s...