Monthly Archives: July 2011

Sunday Wrap: Monday July 25, 2011 Rant D’Jour A tribute to fairs to come. No Blog Post for today-Word Press was down pretty much all day and Monday is far to busy to support any extra work during the day. … Continue reading →

Hi My name is Jim. I am addicted to reading. I have read millions of words in my lifetime and unless I can join a group for reading addicts I will read millions more. It started out innocently enough. A … Continue reading →

Aggregate Saturday: First day of vacation. I will try to keep this up while on the road but I suspect content may be slim. Maybe none. – Big heat all over the places we will visit-Vermont NH and Maine. At … Continue reading →

Picture This: Taken with my crappy Blackberry camera at the Blue Ridge Flea Market in Saylorsburg PA. Do the candles smell really bad? I mean, burning leather and all. Maybe the soy counteracts that. Clearly, sign wording not a strength … Continue reading →

At the risk of bringing down the gods of clichés on my head I want to say here and now. Thank god it’s Friday. I won’t even abbreviate it to TGIF because that’s now a restraint with wait persons who … Continue reading →

Radio DaZe: The trip back from North Carolina was like the Bataan death march. First of all I was driving a very large U-Haul with no air and a bottomless gas tank. Hitched behind it was my Ex-Wife’s mammoth Plymouth … Continue reading →

In this day and age something for nothing is almost too good to be true. When I was in college the bar across from my dorm offered free lunch. Two things were wrong. The lunch was usually so salt intensive … Continue reading →

You probably don’t recognize the name but you know the face. G.D. Spradlin played the corrupt Senator Patrick Geary in The Godfather Part II but before that Francis Ford Coppola used him in Apocalypse Now! as the General who gave … Continue reading →

Dan Peek, a founding member of the popular 1970s band America and singer of high harmonies on hits that included “A Horse With No Name” and “Ventura Highway,” has died, his father said Tuesday. He was 60.

ED NOTE: The WEEKENDER has elected to publish my column on a bi-weekly basis. This is an “Off week”, so I will provide you, the faithful blog reader with a WEEKENDER column from earlier this year until I come up … Continue reading →