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Friday Funtimes–Monkees Collection: Posters and Such
I’ve got two bits of my Monkees collection hanging on my wall. One was a gift from a friend. The other is one that I created. I can’t remember who got me this Head poster (I’ve got it narrowed down to...
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Friday Funtimes–Line Drive
It’s time once again for another one of my dad’s favorite stories about me playing softball as a kid. This story is called “Line Drive”. Once upon a time, I was a pitcher. Actually, I pitched all of...
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Friday Funtimes–Rerun Junkie: Dragnet
Dragnet was one of those shows that I watched on Nick-At-Nite a hundred years ago when I was a kid. It shouldn’t have captured the attention of a hip, 80′s child, but as we all know, I’ve never been...
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Friday Funtimes–MayDays
When I was in junior high, 7th or 8th grade, a new tradition began in my little town in the middle of the cornfield and it was called MayDays. Now you have to understand how exciting this was to the...
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Friday Funtimes–Music: “Valleri” by The Monkees
I forget how much I like this song. Here’s my reminder. And yours as well.
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Friday Funtimes–The Boat
‘Round these parts, folks go to the boat for a good time. For those of you not familiar with the Cornfield and its vernacular, “going to the boat” means going to the riverboat casino in Peoria. This...
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Friday Funtimes–Pictures: CornBelters Game 6/7/13
What follows is photographic evidence that I had a good time at the CornBelters game last week, even if they did lose. A corn dog at the Corn Crib for the CornBelters game. I’m sensing a theme. The...
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Friday Funtimes–Music: “Circle Sky (Live Version)” by The Monkees
My timeline was all a-twitter (puns!) this past Sunday when Mad Men used “The Porpoise Song” by The Monkees in its episode. You didn’t think The Monkees could be so cool outside of bubblegum pop, did...
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Friday Funtimes–Book: The Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst
Baseball players get to live the glamorous life, traveling, dating beautiful women, and getting paid obscene amounts of money. Well, if they’re stars. And not all baseball players are stars. And even...
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Friday Funtimes–Five Weird Searches That Led Here
I’ll be honest. If it weren’t for Starsky and Hutch fans, Randolph Mantooth stalkers, and folks in need of fat girl nudie pics, my blog wouldn’t get much action. A lot of the searches that lead here...
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Friday Funtimes–Books: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
I saw the movie before I read the book. That can be a sin, you know. It can distort the prose and you come away feeling dissatisfied, especially if you really liked the movie. It’s the opposite of what...
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Friday Funtimes–I Tried to Read a Romance Novel
Picture this: a selfish woman with a grating personality meets a man pining for his dead wife and spoiling his little daughter to the point that she’s passed unbearable and on her way to loathsome....
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Friday Funtimes–Pictures: CornBelters Games 7/20/13
A gorgeous night for some gorgeous girls at the ol’ ballpark. The gorgeous girls in question. First pitch. Glad to have you back, Mike Mobbs. Gorgeous night for a ballgame. We believe this to be the...
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