499 - The Yankees are Comin', the Yankees are Comin'
Sunday was a beautiful spring day and I decided to visit an old work-mate and friend who is a Civil War re-enactor. The occasion was the anniversary of some sort of skirmish just west of town at a...
View Article500!! Whoop! Whoop!
500 miles, Fortune 500, Indianapolis 500, S&P 500, Daytona 500, Fiat 500, Mercedes 500SL... there's magic in that number... and a lot of fun, and grief, and sweat, and friends made along the way....
View ArticleWhat The Hell Was I Thinking?
The holidays. An extra twenty pounds. Gotta get out and get some exercise. My friend encourages me to enter this race. It'll be fun. Lots of people will be there and it's mostly walking, she says....
View ArticleSummer's Almost Here... I Promise
Flip flops and shorts this past weekend. Jackets and socks the next. Gotta admit, it keeps things interesting. A contrast in styles.Me and my best buddy, Skeeter, bundled up at the beach.But Summer's...
View ArticleIt's Been A Grin
Not very often,but once in a while,something or someone comes along to capture your imagination.It's usually a simple thing, at least for me, and something you can pick up and do for yourself. A...
View ArticleOld Goats and Wooden Boats
I believe I'm allergic to South Florida. Every time I'm down there it doesn't take long for me to start itching to get the heck out of there. This past weekend I figured out what it is that starts me...
View ArticleI'm Not Dead Yet
My humblest apologies for being absent without leave. Been really busy with my musical friends putting a band together. I'll be back.
View ArticleThis about says it all
This about says it all about what I've been doing lately. The old man staying out of trouble on a rainy Saturday morning.
View ArticleEastern Culture on the Skids
The Japanese are at it again. First, masturbation contests and now this.
View ArticleOK, I'll bite. What the hell is Food Shaming?
Has this world gone totally crazy? Or, maybe I have become a crotchety old man with no imagination. Either way, it's ugly.While typing this it occurred to me that maybe a lot of this sophomoric...
View ArticleOne of those "gotta do something" kind of posts
It was so easy to be absent. To be in a place where I didn't think about "maintaining" a blog. But now that I have begun to post again, I again find that one begets another until one sits in front of...
View ArticleThere But For Fortune
I've been on a house cleaning kick lately. Not my domicile, but my computer. I've got thousands of images that I tucked away for that "someday" when I'll take them all out, dust them off and create...
View ArticleTo Too or Not To Tatt
Mostly, I don't like tattoos. They're ugly at any age and butt-ugly in old age. I kinda like the discreet little butterfly type in hidden places but even most of those have the artistic value of a...
View ArticleBut Miss, I Hardly Know You
Last week I went to my local bank ATM to get a little cash and when I entered my PIN a message flashed on the screen... "Happy Birthday Charleston." I have to say that I was taken aback, and somewhat...
View ArticleSo You Think You're Smart
Think you're smart? OK, explain this.Post by haberinbizden.com.
View ArticleTo Friend or Not To Friend
I frequently get friend requests on Facebook from people I don't know. Of course, we have 6 degrees of friends in common but still, I've never personally met this person that I can remember, and see no...
View ArticleToo Much Fun!
I feel bad that I've abandoned my blogosphere family... but not that bad, 'cause the reason is, I've just been having too much fun. It's not right for old folks to be having this much fun, and I don't...
View ArticleCasey Kasem's Body Missing... WTF?
Is this whole world bat shit crazy? Beloved disc jock Casey Kasem, (never could stand the weird little ferret myself) who kicked the bucket about a month ago, is missing.My initial reaction... so...
View ArticleStuff For Eggheads
These are the 10 winners of last year's Bulwer-Lytton contest(run by the English Dept of San Jose State University),wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel.10) "As a scientist,...
View ArticleFor Men Only
Those of you who have visited my blog for a while know that now and then Mr. C comes across some information for you men that must be shared. Sometimes this information is frivolous, just having fun,...
View ArticleWhat the hell's going on here?
What the hell is going on here? I've been away for months, nay, years and nothing's changed. Old friends are still around. The place looks and feels the same. Am I caught up in some kind of time...
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