I couldn’t find a good picture to represent February, so here’s a picture of me getting Willie Mays’s signature back in 1989. That’s Joe Pepitone sitting next to him. All right! Let’s get to the books! (Joe Pepitone, man. You gotta be careful when you are doing a google image search on that guy, let […]
I haven’t seen any of these movies: Fast Times at Ridgemont High 16 Candles Some Kind of Wonderful Love Story Brian’s Song Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Lawrence of Arabia Driving Mrs. Daisy Terminator Terminator 2: Judgement Day Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Terminator Salvation The Right Stuff Terms of Endearment Sleepless in […]
I had a rough week last week, so I spent a lot of time listening to Paul from his 1970-1974, I can wear whatever haircut I bloody well please period. Yeah, this week was not a good one. Work was just–ugh. Work was the worst. And then the boy got sick, and then I got […]
Have you signed up on goodreads.com? I am giving it a spin. Here’s a review of a book I just finished. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield My rating: 2 of 5 stars Hey, do you remember the 1980s? Remember how […]
Normally, I would have a lot to say about something like this, but right now I am too busy trying to defeat the spectacles at the end of level 2 (“The Valley of the Ashes.”) Play for yourself here. And view the suspicious history of this “lost” NES game here. Now don’t bother me for […]
In his collection of essays, Songbook, Nick Hornby writes about his indifference toward Bob Dylan this way: “I’m not a big Dylan fan. I’ve got Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited, obviously. And Bringing It All Back Home and Blood on the Tracks. Anyone who likes music owns those four. And I’m interested enough to have […]
The mantle in my parents’ living room. This one hurt. The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in last night’s Super Bowl. I don’t really want to talk about the game. However, the Brame family experienced the whole ordeal together, and the photos are fun enough to make you almsot forget that if […]
Here’s what I’ve been reading. How’s about you? 1. Hard Times, by E.L. Doctorow My year started off the right way when I received a copy of E.L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times in the mail from my good friend James of the blog Ready When You Are, C.B. James and I were roommates for our […]