Over the last few weeks, I’ve really enjoyed watching the digitally remastered three seasons of the original Star Trek Series. If you’re a fan and haven’t experienced the cleaned, effects-enhanced episodes, I recommend them. For die-hards, just go ahead and buy the seasons; for everyone else, rent or stream them from Netflix. One of the…
Today was my last day in Branson, MO (trust me, 2 days is enough). As my previous post tries to demonstrate, it was, if nothing else, a superior sociological quickie. Grandma sent me off in style. After a visit to Wal-Mart, she took me to lunch at Shoney’s, where she splurged for the $7.99 lunch…
I’m sitting in my grandmother’s living room in Branson, MO, trying to stay awake during my usual mid-afternoon nap slump. Grandma is napping in stereo; she’s directing people to do her bidding, something to do with shoes, I’m trying not to listen lest I hear something scandalous from her 85 years of memories.
I always knew Anne Rice’s fiction was florid overrated nonsense, but I never, in my wildest dreams, suspected the author herself was a fool. What’s next, J.K. Rowling for Islam? Torah readings by Stephen King?
Startling.
Unbelievable.
Today, after returning home from an errand, I tethered my Beagles to a post on the sidewalk in front of the house. My plan was to brush them. Leaving the front door open, I carried in my bags. When I came back down the stairs, I noticed that a woman and her baby (in a…
I’m so stunned by the Cubs’ post-season implosion that I don’t really have the energy to be disappointed or heartbroken or all those other states with which Cubs fans are so famously intimate. The team that won the NL Central Division is not the same team that just went down in flames before the Dodgers….
Well, the Twins could have done it today in the AL Central tie-breaker. Coulda woulda shoulda. Held the stinky White Sox in check, sent them back to that part of Chicago where people eat whole bags of White Castle burger-lettes for dinner and call it a night out. Yuk. Terrible broadcasters, booooring AL baseball, a…