Jan 31

I Love College Radio
Since moving back to the Lehigh Valley, and having quite a few of my CD’s stored elsewhere, I had been listening to the regular radio on my rides back and forth from work. I don’t like listening to it because the habit is for a radio station to play the same songs all the time, no matter the format. Except for college radio stations.

WLVR 91.3 out of Bethlehem is Lehigh University’s radio station. Over the last two months I have heard some of my favorite artists being played, and its songs that you would never heard on regular radio today. One morning over a month ago I tuned in halfway through “Dancing With the Moonlit Knight”...

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Jan 30

Yesterday evening I gave up reading “The Fountains of Neptune” by Rikki Ducornet. Yes, you read that correctly. I didn’t finish it.

From Publishers Weekly via Amazon.Com, here is a rundown:

In this allegorical novel - part absurdist fairy tale, part Mad Hatter’s tea party - poet and novelist Ducornet renders a vexatiously baffling account of a mentally troubled childhood. Confined to an exotic spa, middle-aged Nicholas recreates for psychoanalyst/water therapist Venus Kaiserstiege his fantasies and obsessions, dreams that have occupied his subconscious during the several decades he has...

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Jan 29

Here is a mish-mash of stuff that is of interest to me.

Barbaro Put Down
I was just reading an article at lunch today that Barbaro had a big setback in his recovery this weekend. Then minutes later I saw the new headlines that they put him down. It’s a shame on many levels, but the biggest being that an animal can’t be comfortable and the best option is death. You can READ the article from ESPN’s web site.

As someone said on a sports forum, “Hopefully his (Barbaro’s) true legacy will be in what was learned from the efforts to keep him alive over the last few months.”

Federer...

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Jan 28

Been a while since I posted any pictures of the Munchkin Man.

First we have a picture of Nigel playing on the floor, though it looks like he wants to share his toys.

Next is a picture of Nigel after his bath. Doesn’t his hair look divine?

Then we have a couple of pictures of Nigel petting Molson. (Shhhh … Don’t tell Grammy Molson is upstairs.)

Someone got Nigel some...

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Jan 26

OK, so I just said a couple of days ago how I never post these things, but this one was very cool as well. Thanks to Sarah for posting both of these to get me interested.

Jan 25

Last night (before the NHL All-Star Game) I finished reading “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.

Stealing from Publishers Weekly found via Amazon.Com, a brief overview of the book:

Violence, in McCarthy’s post apocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a “long shear of light and then a series of low concussions” that leaves cities and forests burned, birds and fish dead, and the earth shrouded in gray clouds of ash. In this landscape, an unnamed man and his young son journey down a road to get to the sea. (The man’s wife, who gave birth to the boy after calamity...

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Jan 24

There are a lot of things floating around the internet that you can post on your blog about what kind of person you are. I usually do the quiz, or whatever it is, but don’t post them. This last one though that I saw on Sarah’s BLOG was too funny not to post.

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Venerable Lord Scott the Discombobulated of Bampton Underhoop
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It...

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Jan 22

Soulhat - “Good to be Gone”

Tracks:

  1. Homer
  2. Good to be Gone
  3. Wiggin’
  4. Big Nose
  5. Psychological Bone
  6. Preacher Man
  7. Bonecrusher
  8. Emugga
  9. Dirty Old Man
  10. Waited
  11. 15 More Miles

I was listening to the radio one day at lunch, sometime in the mid 90’s. I usually didn’t bring along a CD, since I wouldn’t be in the car for very long. So this day I heard a song that used the word “Bonecrusher” in the chorus. Took me weeks to find out the name of the band. Most of the record store...

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Jan 21

It sort of was.

I worked again. I don’t work on a Saturday for over five years, and now have worked two in a row. But we are backed up. And I only worked three hours on Wednesday. Both Marcia and Nigel were sick. Nigel still sort of it. But Marcia was just too sick to watch a sick little boy that is crawling around.

We did some shopping, which was good. Got a few things bought that we needed to get. Then went to a beer shop that sells six packs (OMG!!). For those of you not from PA might be surprised that about the only way to get beer here is to buy a whole case of it. Only a few select restaurants sell six packs, and their variety is limited. But this place has an excellent selection and only...

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Jan 19

Over the past month I have gotten to try a few new beers, though two were not necessarily new, but a bit different. I will explain, don’t worry.

The first three were a nice surprise. I had told Marcia on our way to Michigan for Christmas that I wanted to stop at a store close to my parents place that has a great selection of beer, this way I could get something for our holiday stay. Well, when my Mom called us to let us know about our niece Jordan’s chicken pox, she has also informed me that my Uncle Steve had dropped off some beer for me.

We had talked while in town for my Grandfather’s funeral about the Brooklyn Brewery. I had never heard of them, but saw a store that was selling pub glasses with their...

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