Monthly Archives: October 2011

I loved Halloween as a kid. Well, why not? Free candy, and way too much of it? What is not to love. My trick or treat years were spent in Brattleboro Vermont, mostly. I would have been around 12 when … Continue reading →

Sunday Wrap 10/24/11-10/29/11 Here is look at what I have posted the last week, along with a bonus link to my daily blog about my adventures in juicing. If I don’t type enough text here the Facebook insets all sorts … Continue reading →

Saturday Morning Aggregate Big snow coming here. First storm is big no matter how many inches we get but this one is about 4 to 6″ of the heavy wet stuff. Nothing yet at 6am but it’s coming, so say … Continue reading →

One morning an elderly man was walking on a nearly deserted beach. He came upon a boy surrounded by thousands and thousands of starfish. As eagerly as he could, the youngster was picking them up and throwing them back into … Continue reading →

I got the job at WSNO by fabricating a resume. On paper it looked like I had worked with Marconi. Thinking back I know they knew I was green. But they probably needed a warm body and I fit the … Continue reading →

WEEKENDER COLUMN: Purposeless, needless and doomed to fail I came to live in Northeast Pa in the fall of 1980. So pretty quickly here, it will be 31 years that I have called this place my home. It’s been a … Continue reading →

This is such a typical story that really illustrates how crazy fickle the world of pop music was, and maybe still is. While Paul Leka was not a “one hit wonder” per se, (he also wrote “Green Tambourine” for the … Continue reading →

Very shortly here it will be 31 years that I have called this place, this NEPA place, my home. A lot has happened in those three plus decades, that’s for sure. When I came here I gave the people I … Continue reading →

Sunday Wrap: 10/17/11-10/22/11 The weekly wrap-up of posts from Rising’s Rant. A busy week but still no real increase in output. I do feel the muse coming back. Or possibly that’s just heartburn. Juiced! Catch up on my adventures in … Continue reading →

Aggregate Saturday A fairly long entry in the “Juiced” section of this blog. 28 days and going very well. – I cut the fingers of my right hand, right where I type and use the mouse. Painful and slows me … Continue reading →