"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
It’s all stuff
. . . or maybe fun’s uncle. You know, the uncle they keep locked in the attic? Donna likes to watch NCIS. I like to watch reruns of The Office. Naturally, the shows are scheduled head to head. Time for TIVO. Comcast, our cable provider, offers DVR capability for $8.95 a month. So I called […]
We drove to Phoenix with Darrell and Mary Anne yesterday for one of our semi-annual cultural outings. On past trips we’ve we’ve gawked at first ladies’ gowns, renaissance masterpieces, contemporary photography, plasticized corpses, and relics of the Titanic. This time we beamed up to see a traveling Star Trek exhibit: Our friend Mary Anne, it […]
Every year a local car club puts on a car show in Tubac, a resort community halfway between Nogales and Tucson. I started to aim my camera at hood ornaments and grills, as I did at the Barrett-Jackson auction last week, but there were always people in the way, so I gave up and just […]
So how’s Barrett-Jackson? About like it is on TV, only keener. I was there all day Tuesday. That night in Phoenix I bored my daughter Polly to tears watching B-J live on Speed, saying “I saw that car,” and “Oh, that one too!” Wednesday night, back in Tucson, I did the same thing to Donna. […]
Speaking of cars (see previous entry), I’m riding my motorcycle up to Scottsdale tomorrow to see the Barrett-Jackson Auction. Judging by the prices people pay for cars at B-J, I figured it probably cost a couple of hundred just to get in the gate. This year I took the trouble to Google ticket prices, and […]
My September 2007 prediction on the upcoming Sirius/XM satellite radio merger: Okay, one more and then I’m done: the Blues Channel on Sirius Radio. How come they have such a restricted playlist? It’s the same old stuff, all the time, and never any new blues. Apparently they’d rather spend my subscription money on executive salaries, not […]
Note: there will be no photographs in this entry, for reasons that will soon become apparent. I decided to go for a bicycle ride this morning. Since it was chilly, I pulled on my new Spandex tights. Oh my God! One glance at the bedroom mirror and I fished out a pair of baggy shorts […]
Dropping ballast in anticipation of retirement: satellite radio. Talk about not living up to promises. When I listen to Sirius today, not only do I hear the exact same playlists of songs I heard five years ago (particularly on the Blues Channel, my one-time favorite), I hear commercials. Yeah, terrestrial radio is ten times worse, […]