Yeah…and Santa Claus reads every letter too!

The fiasco surrounding the two Northwest pilots who overshot the Minneapolis International Airport by 150 miles has the beginnings of a final resolution this morning but I’m still not buying it. As everyone knows by now the pilots claim they were going over monthly flight crew schedules on their laptops and that they “lost track of time [...]

MLB ‘09 award predictions

MVPs
AL – ‘Baby Jesus’ Joe Mauer, Minnesota; runner-up – Derek Jeter (NYY). Kendry Morales (LAA) deserves a lot more respect than he’s getting though in these post-season polls. He virtually carried the Angel’s offense singlehandedly when the big bats were out with injuries for lengthy periods.
NL – Albert Pujols, St. Louis; runner-up Hanley Ramirez (Florida). Pablo Sandoval [...]

Local restaurant that never opens closes it’s doors permanently

The recession continues to accrue casualties and our neighborhood wasn’t spared. Sometime during the past week the long and storied era of the San Antonio Grill & Bar officially came to a close. I say that in jest of course – oh, the restaurant did close but it did not have a ‘long and storied [...]

Seriously…the Super Bowl?!?!?

NFL analysts and sportscasters have apparently lost their minds now that Brett Favre has come out of retirement for…what?…the tenth or twelfth time? Honestly, I’ve lost count – not that I care. I haven’t been a fan of Favre for the past several years as he became a nuisance with all of his announcements concerning “his final season” as [...]

Yet, one more blog about the complete unknown Bob Dylan

In case you haven’t had a TV or radio on or been to any site on the internet in the past week, then you probably did not hear about a pair of North Jersey police officers who failed to recognize the singer and song writing legend Bob Dylan. Nearly everyone who has a website or [...]

A few reflections on album collecting 30 years ago

Can you remember what your album collection looked like 30 years ago? I was looking through CDs at the used music store last weekend and happened across a CD that had been released thirty years ago in 1979. That was the year I began collecting albums by the truckload – not literally of course, but [...]