From the monthly archives: July 2009
Dialogue from the kids in the backyard:
“Oh my gosh I see a hobo in the sky!”
“It’s the rapture!”
Natalie has some friends over, and they’re feeding off each other’s insanity. The boy is insisting he has seen real pictures of real Pokemon: “I DID A GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH,” he yelled. [...]
Friday we took the piano class show on the road. Gathered up all the keyboards, put them in the parental vehicles, drove to a day care center, set them up, and performed. Huzzah for cars and modern technology; 100 years ago, you couldn’t give a concert at a school unless you spent three days moving [...]
I’m duplicating this series for the Institute of Official Cheer, and this one came up as a draft, not a published entry. Well, if it’s a duplicate, apologies, If not, enjoy.
First, we have to pause to note that Bob, while always dapper, was as much of a victim of fashions as the women who [...]
Smack me twice and call me Pete, it’s a good one. It’s a very good one. Go HERE.
Almost ten pages of retro cereal ads – with commentary and commercials. Go HERE.
The long stagger to Friday night is almost complete. Just one video shoot early in the morn (almost wrote “earl-aye in the morning,” which is an old tic from summer camp. It’s from the drunken sailor song, which was a staple in those days. What do we do with a drunken sailor, what do we [...]
, ‘fess up – who sent me this? It’s wonderful. For less interesting but genuine First Day Covers of the week, go HERE.
Big big day of blogging, but you didn’t see half of it. The rest was done in secret, under a box. It’ll probably go live Thursday. What’s it?
The Blog o’ Things, which is the replacement for buzz.mn. No, strike that; it’s what I’m doing now instead of buzz.mn, the end of which in [...]
Nine down, several thousand to go.
The airdate. Something leaped out at me:
It’s this. The Watchband of 1972.
It was cheap thick leather; the watch was held in place by two leather straps that snapped shut. Heavy and hot, and not in the “fashionable” sense, [...]
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