why i can’t listen to john denver… at least not until the weekend

one of the comments on my last post from kingofnewyorkhacks mentioned a song by john denver ‘on the road’.  i’m sure i was much closer to his mother’s age than his when she was vacuuming and listening to john denver.  his posts are so descriptive it is like taking a vacation.  so i took a short webvaca in [...]

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stolen from mexico cherry, but i added the extra challenge [4-2-2008]

Top ten (both good and bad) high school memories – Go! (in no particular order)  extra challenge (try to name a song to go with each memory!)
1.  dancing slow dances in the big gym after the basketball games…. Unchained Melody, the Righteous Brothers
2.  stealing hay and fruit for the autumn ball with Pam when we were juniors…Hanky Panky, Tommy [...]

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it’s friday ~ i think i will ramble… [4-25-2008]

caveat emptor amazon.com ~ here’s the story.  i wanted to buy four books, my taste is reading material is weird - i like what i call ‘killer slasher’ books, but occasionally i will read something with some kind of literary substance.  this is not one of those times.  i saw a book in the hartford airport [...]

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just my opinion….{again} [5-3-2008]

i know i watch WAY too much television, but i just saw jamie lee curtis hawk ativia three times in the last hour talking about “the natural culture bifidus regularis”.  the first time i heard that i thought ‘no one in their right mind would have named a bacteria bifidus regularis!’  i know a little [...]

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note to self…. [3-22-2008]

do not stay up and watch [the alternate international version of] the pilot of twin peaks until 1:00 am and then go to bed and expect not to have really weird [like directed by david lynch weird] dreams!!!
twin peaks link is a serious spoiler ~ ***be forwarned!
oh, and just for clarification sake – if you [...]

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you do the math…. [3-15-2008]

Benjamin: “Look, maybe we could do something else together. Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie?”
the graduate is 40 years old this year… i heard that on the tv tonight.  then i immediately started to cry ~ let me try to explain ~ when the graduate was new and in theaters it was a [...]

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i’ve been lazy – so what! [2-17-2008]

my friend jess and her friends al and bridge have a blog site that is so well done, it puts this poor thing to shame.  always posting, great stuff too, kids and life and books and vacations and bad 80’s hair and cat piss in the rug…. i’m going to be try to be more like them, [...]

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some good stuff I skipped, whoops….

Mike Birbiglia is skinny and really hilarious…  [9-25-2007]
not only did i move his cd to the top ten rack in borders, i also just wrote what he told me to.  if you don’t know who mike birbiglia is you should find out, he’s funny and kind of weird, and [according to A] was dead on [...]

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Chicken Soup (for the fantasy football fan’s soul) [10-7-2007]

both my fantasy teams pretty much suck doggy noogies today, jess is kicking my butt and so is joe.  i don’t know joe or where he even is, but he is seriously kicking my butt.  the afternoon games are just starting, but it looks grim for me.
so, because of this and because it is cold [...]

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my editorial opinion…. [7-2-2007]

i came home from work tonight and everyone on the block has a brand new American Flag hanging on their house, on a new pole or in their yard.  what i figure is they must have announced in church ‘meetings’ on sunday that everyone needed to have a flag up before the fourth of july….
well, [...]

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