Month: November 2007

Evel Knievel made the news two times in the past two days…unfortunately the last time was news regarding his death. The man the Snake River Canyon couldn’t kill was finally felled by a pernicious cocktail of diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis and hepatitis C today (11/30). He was 69. Joel Muskovich has created a suitably tasteful salute…

The new web setup has necessitated a purge of sorts, for yours truly. I had a backlog of “stuff” to shove out onto the site…and then I was basically barred from my domain due to technical issues… But anyway, I just wanted to apologize to my readers about the sloppiness in the last couple of…

I’ve been having a hell of a time with this website. The hosting site,1 & 1, moved their servers to Kansas City and I was unable to post for the past week…I finally figured out what was going on and patched the problems up… So I’m cleaning house here and discovered some interesting audio bits…

It’s Thanksgiving. People are traveling long distances to be together. Most are thinking about dinner. Turkey dinner seems to be pretty much the most traditional type of dinner. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose. It just got me thinking about a different kind of Turkey. Recently, I was the winning bidder in an eBay auction…

Ouch! I can’t believe I haven’t written about the new Stanley Kubrick remastered DVDs which came out a couple of weeks ago. I opted out of buying the set, picking up the two-disc versions of The Shining and A Clockwork Orange instead — both in new ANAMORPHIC DVD transfers! And after all this time we’d…

It’s been almost three months to the day since my last scuba dive on the wreck of the Oriskany off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. Cobbled together my gear for a dip into Austin’s Lake Travis this past weekend. My rusty skills and the salt water damage done to my equipment was further burdened by…