my thoughts on running
posted 11 months ago | 0 comments
Even as a kid, I only ran when I needed to--dodging "it" in a hot game of Tag, say, or heading for first base on those rare occasions when my bat actually connected with the softball and didn't aim for the foul line. Walking was more interesting. ...
Famous quote--and an afterword!
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
Hugh O'Brien once listed the 5 stages of a Hollywood career:
1. Who is Hugh O'Brien?
2. Get me Hugh O'Brien!
3. Get me a Hugh O'Brien type.
4. Get me a young Hugh O'Brien.
5. Who is Hugh O'Brien?
Having made this comment in the 1960's, he w...
1. Who is Hugh O'Brien?
2. Get me Hugh O'Brien!
3. Get me a Hugh O'Brien type.
4. Get me a young Hugh O'Brien.
5. Who is Hugh O'Brien?
Having made this comment in the 1960's, he w...
So you want to move out to the country...
posted about 1 year ago | 3 comments
It seems as if so many people want to move out to the country these days. Well, guess what, people:
1. Remember those nice tree-shaded roads you liked to drive along? When they widened the road to suit the builders' heavy machinery and the increa...
1. Remember those nice tree-shaded roads you liked to drive along? When they widened the road to suit the builders' heavy machinery and the increa...
my mind and welcome to it
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
One of my favorite writers is Robert A. Heinlein. I don't always agree with opinions voiced by him or his characters, but he makes me THINK about the opinions I do hold and why I hold them, which was always his intention (even in his so-called "ju...
open minds only, please
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
Seems to me that about the only people reading my blogs so far are just the kind I'd rather not hear from--at least, their comments all seem to be on the lines of "I'm right, you're wrong, case closed (sound of door slamming)". I'm really not inte...
just a thought on religion...
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
I just received yet another copy of that e-mail going the rounds which purports to tell where John Lennon, James Brown et al. are spending eternity based on isolated incidents of their lives. Sorry, chooms, but I don't buy it. Read the whole Bible...
RMS Titanic
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
I'm something of a Titanic buff--our family's distantly related to the Edwin Kimballs, who were first class passengers (cousins at some remove, I'd have to ask one of the clan genealogists for the precise degree) and may also be related to John Ma...
"Mike Johnson moment" defined
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
In my group, certain times are defined as being "Mike Johnson moments". Mike Johnson did the fire stunts in "The Towering Inferno"--among others, he was the flaming man who staggered out of the elevator into Bill Holden's party, and he doubled Rob...
thought for the day (lol)
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
If God had intended everyone to be skinny, He would have put the calories in broccoli instead of in chocolate.
