Musical ramblings from the manager
“Who is John Tristao and why do I not remember him being in CCR?” is no doubt the question that pops into one’s head when reading the above title. Join the club, because when I first heard his name attached to CCR, it didn’t ring any bells for me either. Perhaps this will help: […]
Fifty years ago this month, Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt made the last manned landing on the Moon while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans kept vigil in Lunar orbit. The mission itself took place December 7-19, 1972, but was the culmination of President John F. Kennedy’s bold statement that the United […]
For the first time in many months, ALL of the planets will be visible in December’s night sky. Venus and Mercury will begin the month deep in the Sun’s glare, but all the rest will start the month spread across the night sky. Naked-eye planets (that can be seen without the need of binoculars […]
Don’t we all have our share of anxieties stemming from various things that come (or may come) our way? Be you a ‘Little Mary Sunshine’ or ‘Debbie Downer’, or a ‘Happy Sam’ or ‘Gloomy Gus’, there are times when it just gets to be all too much. With that said, before we even get […]
On the eve of the September 20, 2022 release of the book The Byrds 1964-67, band co-founder Roger McGuinn shared his thoughts on their career on Steve Hyden’s UPROXX indie mixtape series. The book is a collectable art book about the band with input from McGuinn and the other surviving members of the band, […]
I originally thought the title of this FTV was a ripoff of a Steve Martin book, but I was mixed up. Martin’s book was called Cruel Shoes (Steve Martin – 1980 – Grand Central Publishing ). If you have actually read the Sensible Shoes series by Sharon Garlough Brown and thought of those books […]
VOICE OF AMERICA BEGINS ROHINGYA LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING – A Commentary by VOA Director Amanda Bennett: “Voice of America has launched its first radio program in Rohingya, the language of more than 800,000 refugees who fled Myanmar and are living in camps across the border in Bangladesh. Many international organizations are working to provide the […]
In 1999, the Wachowskis siblings launched a little multi-part film franchise called The Matrix. Although I have yet to see the fourth installment, the whole series revolves around the original film’s basic tenets. According to Wiki, “The Matrix depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality called The Matrix. […]
Like most of the tales told by Simon Winchester in his book The Men Who United The States – America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible (2013 – HarperCollins), the story of American railroads does not begin with trains. One has to go back a little further in […]
By the time you read this, we will only be five days from the Total Lunar Eclipse that will happen during the Full Moon of November 8. You will need to be an early riser to see this one as totality is scheduled to being at 5:16 a.m. and will last until 6:42 a.m. […]