It’s not every day I win something, so I was excited when Rick over at “Mail It To Team Up” chose a banner I enterted in his contest to choose a new title graphic for his comics blog. As winner,…
Jason and Scott are big Beatle fans, which isn’t too surprising given they live in our house, but it is kind of unusual that they’ve picked “Til There Was You” as a favorite song, over something more kid-friendly like “Yellow…
Okay, as far as I’m concerned, stuff like this is the whole reason we even have an Internet. From deep within the “anything goes” vaults of YouTube, I give you a whacked-out harmonica band performing Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse.” Kids, it’s…
Assuming anyone reads this blog, you may have noticed I recently made the switch from Blogger to Word Press. Among the many reasons for this was my goal of posting videos of the kids (and what not) without having to…
Considering it combines two of my longtime interests — science fiction and espionage — you’d think I’d have devoured “The Prisoner” TV series long before this, but I’m only now getting into it. One reason for my late participation, no…
Just finished William Kalush and Larry Sloman’s recent Houdini biography. It’s a pretty fascinating read, but then it’d take some effort to tell Houdini’s life story and NOT make it interesting. As suggested in the subtitle, Houdini was “America’s First…
