If you’ve been following me for awhile, then you know I like Doctor Who.  Something I’ve been wanting to do for ages, but have never decided to follow through on is watch everything.  The show started on 23 Nov 1963, ran through 6 Dec 1989.  It tried coming back in 1996 (didn’t work), but then […]

40 years ago today (16 Jul 1981), Harry Chapin died. On his way to a gig, actually. Those who know his music know it well, he wasn’t an artist you liked casually. If you liked him, you loved him. I’m 55 now, and mostly known for being a metal head (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc), […]

Those who know me know I’m a metalhead first.  Things like Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Queensryche – these are my jams.  But unlike most of my metal brethren, that’s not ALL I like.  In fact, in the right frame of mind, I can like almost anything.  However one of my favorite treats I go […]

I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who since 1983, and watched every episode the show’s ever put out (862 as of now), even including reconstructions of the lost 1960’s episodes.  I know probably far too much about this show than one person probably should.  In all those episodes, I’ve seen a LOT of actors.  the […]

Tonight I completed the collection of State Park Quarters and polished off the collector’s book. If you didn’t know the US Mint ran a program called “America the Beautiful Quarters“, and there was a quarter design produced for each of the 50 National Parks, as well as one for each of the 6 US territories […]

Last year, just as the pandemic got started and we were all locked in, I did something I haven’t done since the early 80’s. I bought a record player. Somewhere around 1988 I stopped with records completely, as I got my first CD player in Dec 1987, and I was mostly into cassettes then due […]