http://popdose.com/uncovered-randy-newman-born-again/

Stop the presses – this just in!! Recognizing their dual needs to consolidate the GOP’s Tea Party and Conservative Religious base, as well as to regain recent polling losses of women and independent voters, t/… Read full post »

http://www.apacheclips.com/

Knockout Dropper, From my father’s eulogy: “Last week as I went through his stuff looking for information for this service, I discovered that the plane that carried ‘Mac’ on his last mission over Europe was named the ‘Knockou… Read full post »

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110419-biggest-fossil-spider-china-animals-science/

Big, Big Spider!!!: Measuring nearly 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in length, this 165-million-year-old fossil spider from the middle Jurassic period was uncovered in 2005 by farmers in In/… Read full post »

http://listverse.com/2008/01/01/top-10-worst-school-massacres/

First Day of School!: Over the summer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his first public speech on the Vietnam War, Civil rights activist James Meredith was shot in Mississippi, U.S. planes started bombing Hanoi and Haiph… Read full post »

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/a-sports-numbers-reading-list-334/

This is a partial repost from my experience in Pasadena, Texas at the age of eleven:

Now we come to why I tried to murder future Texas State Senator Jim Fonaro:  Fono, as we called him, was the class bully and mo/… Read full post »

http://www.allmoviephoto.com/photo/2004_dodgeball_wallpaper_003.html

Dodge ball??: Fidel Castro announced that anyone who wanted to leave Cuba could emigrate to the United States.  A week later he announced that Che Guevara had resigned and left the country… Hmmm?  P… Read full post »

Dogwoods in Bloom

Up here on the mountain it still drops down into the thirties at night and on this Mother’s Day it took a few hours for the sun to reach the flowers through the long morning shadows.  The Dogwoods and some other white tree blossoms/… Read full post »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDvY_anJdc

(Photo: Getty Images).

Hot Town in the Summertime: A routine traffic stop by white California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer Lee Minikushe blew up into five days of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California.  Police chief William H. Park… Read full post »

Chicken Fried Steak from Mel's Cafe Tomball, Texas

It’s Foody Tuesday and as promised we’re exploring the mysteries of Chicken Fried Steak.  First of all what is it?  If we go to Wikipedia we find some history that makes sense: “Chicken fried steak rese… Read full post »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVNoClu0h9M

1964 Landslide: I wasn’t the only radical to lose an election in 1964.  Senator Barry Goldwater, whose famous statement, “…extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and…moderation in the pursuit of justi… Read full post »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH9sAENQNV8

Crazy: I fucked up and this post has been nagging at me for three days.  It is my heart-felt apology born from an OS email exchange where, while trying to make a joke, I used the word “crazy” several times and it got terri/… Read full post »

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.50.16%5B188%5D

http://naturedoesnotintend.tumblr.com/post/3664064545/dean-as-god

Mom Flips Out: Again the memory is foggy as to when this conflict got out of hand, but my memory of the event is as clear today as it was o/… Read full post »

It’s Foody Tuesday, May Day and I got to go to work so I’m sucking back coffee and getting ready to jump in the shower.  No time for prep so I simply yearn for an appetite and:

Chicken Fried Steak & Eggs Scrambled Soft… Read full post »

Borrowed from Robert Crook’s post

This re-post kind of dove tails into David McClain’s post: High tech blues with a serving of angst on the side: http://open.salon.com/blog/torman/2012/04/26/high_tech_blues_with_a_serving_of_angst_on_the_side

On Tuesday I got sucked in… Read full post »

1991 – a Lesson in Quality Assurance from the PRC:

http://www.stylegallery.co.uk/photo/China

It’s Foodie Tuesday and my OS social network experiment continues: 35 readers commented on “1963 –End of a Dream…,” 33 on “Earth day… Read full post »

My OS social network experiment continues: 29 readers commented on “Earth day 2012,” 29 on “62-63 – The Long Ball...” 35 readers commented on “Waiting for the Electrician...”, and 31 on “1962-Summertime...”  The record still stands with 38 re/… Read full post »

No words, just coffee on the deck…

April 14, 2012 

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Happy Earth Day

Except for attributed photos and text, all content is copyrighted © 2012 JKM (apparently an ineffectual boilerplate joke?) Read full post »

My OS social network experiment continues: 32 readers commented on “Waiting for the Electrician...” and only one caught my reference to The Firesign Theatre, 30 on “1962-Summertime...” 22 on “Spring Snow...”  The new record still stands with 38 readers comment/… Read full post »

My OS social network experiment continues: 30 readers commented on “1962-Summertime...”. 23 on “Spring Snow...”  The new record stands with 38 readers commenting on “Open Call: Copyrights...”, and 26 on “1962-Lost in Space…”

It’… Read full post »

My OS social network experiment continues: 22 folks commented on “Spring Snow...”. We have another new record with 38 readers commenting on “Open Call: Copyrights...”, 26 on “1962-Lost in Space…”, but only 5 on “Coeur de veau…”  It se/… Read full post »

My OS social network experiment continues – 26 readers commented on “1962- Lost in Space …”,18 readers commented on “1975- In Memoriam…”, 33 on “1968 Petty Crimes…”, and 25 on “Sandlot Football…”.  This one is an o/… Read full post »

My OS social network experiment continues – 18 readers commented on “1975- In Memorium…”, 32 on “1968 Petty Crimes…”, 22 comments on “Smoked Salmon…”, and 25 on “Sandlot Football…”.  After a couple of out of sequen/… Read full post »