There are moments in our lives where we plan things out, bit by bit, piece by piece, frame by frame. We plan these things out. We account for all possible variables. We keep a spare tire in our car just in case we develop a flat. We keep three cans of Spam in the cupboard…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 20 2021
It’s Saturday, and you know what that means. Get up, have a cup of coffee and a bowl of Cocoa Krispies, and check through the posts from my personal blogroll. These are the writers, photographers and podcasters whose thoughts and opinions and ideas are worth your time. Please take a read. BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for November 19, 2021
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Time Artist Song Release 7:01 PM Automatic Man My Pearl Automatic Man 7:07 PM The Limits What You Do (I Get Excited)…
Read MoreWait, Shipping Wars is coming back?
For a while, the A&E network had a series of slice-of-life reality shows that were, by its very existence, quite popular for a time. There was Storage Wars, where people would bid on the contents of storage lockers (which expanded into Storage Wars: Texas and Storage Wars: New York and a few other international editions).…
Read MoreIt’s looking like North Hudson on Thursday night / Friday morning.
I get one shot at this. One shot. And I have to get this correct. No do-overs. So here’s the plan. The 2021 lunar eclipse will appear on the evening of November 18, 2021, and into the morning of November 19, 2021. The prenumbral eclipse starts at 1:02 a.m., with the partial eclipse beginning at…
Read MoreBreak out the ambient rock tracks and the heart-pulling Christmas commercials.
I guess there’s such a thing as “new holiday tradition,” as our Christmases are now filled with 117 new Hallmark movies (60 of them starring Candace Cameron Bure and 57 of them starring Lacey Chabert), the incessant every-hour-on-the-hour of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” and the manipulation of children by their…
Read MoreCaption Time: Three masks, two IInspirations, one Chuck
Yesterday, I attended a wrestling fan convention at the Washington Avenue Armory. Don’t come at me. I like pro wrestling. Mostly AEW stuff (I’m still torn as to whether the MJF / Darby Allin match or the CM Punk / Eddie Kingston match at Saturday night’s Full Gear was the match of the night). There…
Read More“In a world of words, strive to be paper.”
It’s Thursday morning, and for some reason, I woke up at 2:00 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep. I think it’s another round of stress-induced insomnia. For me, insomnia happens when I’m over-anticipating something, or a personal event has me all twisted up in angst. Then, in the middle of the night, I’m awake,…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 13 2021
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. As you know, when Saturday rolls around, I step aside from the blog, and showcase the great posts that arrived this week from my blogroll. You know, that list that runs down the right side of my page? Yeah, that blogroll. So let’s get at it, shall we? BLOGS…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for November 12, 2021
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode is a deep dive into the chewy world of bubblegum music, including rare tracks, alternate recordings, and a block of…
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