“Tom who?  Tom Hambridge you say?  Never heard of him.” That was the sum of my knowledge about the drummer/vocalist/songwriter/producer a few years ago.  These days, I would update my summation to: “Yeah, we have HEARD music with his fingerprints all over it, we just didn’t know it was him.”  Now thanks to an […]

      My newest set of glasses are a tad wider than my last pair so I was a little shocked to look in the mirror one day and see two scars on the outside corner of my left eyelid.  I also noticed a third right below my lower lip. I guess what startled me is […]

Have you ever felt snake bit?  We had two Ford Taurus Wagons, drove them for twenty years, and then they stopped making them.  That is okay, we said, our kids drove the same Mercury Sable through 8 years of college….we liked it, we can get one of those….and they stopped making them! We were just […]

      By the time you read this, Lee Kerslake may actually be ‘resting in peace’ – as in ‘dead’.  If not and he is still hanging in there, be assured that he was at peace long before he was told that he wasn’t long for this world.  I knew that since 2007 he had been […]

      It is probably a bit misleading to use ‘U-2’ as a title because with the musical vein of the majority of the FTV articles, it will make one think instantly of Bono and the boys.  With that said, it can also trigger a different memory for those who follow aviation circles. A fan of […]

      It is 2019.  Jeff Bridges tours between acting gigs with his band The Abiders.  The name, of course, was lifted from his character’s oft quoted line in his 1997 movie The Big Lebowski, “The Dude abides” (‘The Dude’ being his self-bestowed handle in the movie).  From what I have seen and heard, Bridges’ work […]

      If you are not a hardcore Star Trek fan, then you have no reason to recognize the name Bjo Trimble.  If you are a red (or perhaps green) blooded Trekkie, then you probably already know that she is the woman who saved the program from being canceled after its second season.  She had a […]

      Stealing or borrowing?  I have been trying to decide whether my teaching career had been one based on ‘stealing’ or ‘borrowing’ ideas.  Of course I could sound noble and say I was “recycling ideas” in the classroom, but that flies in the face of everything I have be taught about finding and using other […]

      The history of Australia’s AC/DC can be divided into WBS and ABS:  Their early history with lead singer Bon Scott (With Bon Scott) and the rest of their career after his untimely death in February of 1980 (After Bon Scott).  The time WBS covered a mere seven years but laid a foundation strong enough […]

 “And that’s the way it is.”  For some reason this phrase used to irk my brother Ron.  Any time he heard this phrase, he would snarl, “No, that’s the way you SAY it is.”  I am still not sure why this riled Ron up, but coming from Walter Cronkite at the end of his daily […]