June 17th, 2018 (also Father's Day this year) marked the 40th anniversary of the most memorable baseball game I've ever seen in person - the Ron Guidry 18-strikeout game, a 4-0 victory for the eventual world champion New York Yankees over the California Angels. But this game has actually been on my mind a lot …
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 880 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 15 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the …
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get …
The Great White Blu-Ray Hunt
Today is the day. The day JAWS came out on Blu-Ray. On my late and dearly missed Mom's birthday, no less. And I had a solid plan to get it in my grubby hands. Could I have ordered it online on Amazon? Sure. But when I saw this past Sunday there was a Best Buy …
The Fabulous Richard Z
Movie producer-filmmaker-mogul Richard Zanuck (1934-2012) passed away on July 13 (yes, as usual I'm behind the times), leaving behind a damn good resume. Of course, it starts with Jaws. No, that's not where he started, but for me, it's his most important film. But that's not the whole story by any stretch. Zanuck's father was …
When I Get Off’a This Mountain
Today Levon Helm, the fantastic drummer/vocalist from the legendary The Band, sadly lost his battle with cancer. Levon will always be an important part of my life because his music played a part in helping me break out of my shell. Back in the day, the mighty Herb Griffin and I, after many appearances in …
Cool as Vice
Revisited an old friend last night via Netfilx Streaming -- the movie Busting, one of the most underrated films of the 1970s (aka the greatest decade in the history of cinema) in my humble opinion. First encountered this gem on the fantastic WHT. Yes, amazingly did not see this in the theaters, but even my …
Absent Minded
Last week, I received the yearly summary of this blog from wordpress.com. And I was kinda excited about it to be honest...until I read it. Sure, it looked great, with flash fireworks, fancy type, cool design...but when it told me I only made 5 posts in 2011....geez....how lame. 5 freakin posts? What the heck was …
That’s What I Need
My upper back hurts like the dickens, I've had too much wine, I'm wasting time on the innna-net. And I give you my wedding song. A positively beautiful song from the only post-Phil Collins Genesis album, which really gets a bad rap from most Genesis fans. Not me, I think it's great. One day, I'll …
March Master
As the faithful readers of this blog (all half dozen of them) are well aware, I'm not very timely with my posts. Heck, if that was the case, I'd be posting every other day. And I had every intention of this post being on time, but well, it didn't work out...But anyway... May 31st is …
Von Luger's Butter 