My fondness for movie musicals can be traced back to two I saw during my kidhood: “The Music Man,” with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, and “Bye Bye Birdie,” with Ann-Margret and Ann-Margret. Let me put this on the table right now: “Bye Bye Birdie” came out in 1963, which predates my awareness of film… Read More Movietime: La La Land
As parents, we teach. It’s kind of our duty. We try to guide our kids through the rapids of their young lives before, you know, the canoe hits the waterfall. As parents of an only child … hoo, boy. The teaching never stops, simply because the ratio of students to teachers in our household is… Read More Ask for the puppy
According to Wikipedia, the font of all knowledge, the U.S. has 59 national parks. They range from Acadia in Maine to Hawaii Volcanoes on the big island of Hawaii, from Olympic, west of Seattle, to Dry Tortugas a little off of Key West, Florida. A person could spend a hefty lifetime of vacations — or… Read More Wide open spaces
My annual golf trip with my brothers is this weekend, and I am approaching it like I always do; ill prepared and hardly giving a damn about how bad I’m liable to be. Hardly. Some day, some day soon, it would be nice to drive over to Pawleys Island, just south of Myrtle Beach, and… Read More Just be the damn ball
Gambling is either in your blood or it’s not. I don’t mean gambling, as in taking everyday chances. Everybody takes a chance every once in a while. Just the other day, I bit into a whole jalapeno at a place in Moab, Utah. That could have gone south in a hurry. No, I mean gambling… Read More Always a crapshoot
Recorded comedy bits have been around for a long time, before the turn of the last century. A vaudevillian named Cal Stewart was doing jokes as “Uncle Josh” Weathersby back in 1897, according to an excerpt on a PBS site. And if you can’t trust public broadcasting … Uncle Josh was a rube from New… Read More Funny, not funny
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