Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The Song Remains The Same
Courtesy of Shorpy, one of my favorite photo blogs, the Royal Rooters at Shibe Park for the first game of the 1914 World Series.
I can see Truck Day on the horizon…
No Comments » - Posted in Baseball by The Silver Fox
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Let The Music Play
Hi. It’s me again, still with Solid Gold on the brain. Lucky for me, YouTube is there to function as a sort of way back machine. Here’s some samples of the goodness…
Ozzy on Solid Gold. Who knew? I have no recollection of this event.
Ronnie, Bobbie, Ricky and Mike… if I love the girl who cares […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Music, Television by The Silver Fox
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Busby Berkely Dreams
Sometimes I have a hard time believing that a show like Solid Gold actually existed. We live in a time when pop music is ubiquitous. You can order CDs on the intertubes, down load new tunes on the intertubes and discover worlds and worlds of new bands and artists on the intertubes.
So it seems […]
3 Comments » - Posted in The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid, Music, Television by The Silver Fox
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Attack of the Ghost Riders
This just in…
Criminal gangs are using dwarves in a ruse to steal from the luggage holds of long-distance coaches, by hiding them inside suitcases, according to police.”
The Legend of the Midget Tree begins to take on sinister connotations…
No Comments » - Posted in Slithytoves by The Silver Fox
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Trouble in Mind
There’s all sorts of things going on these days to which I can hardly bear to pay attention. First we have the Oscar nominations, which I will do my level best to ignore. Not because I have a blessed thing against the Oscars in general, but I simply can’t see my way to […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Movies, Faceless Shakedown Devils by The Silver Fox
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Asking For It
This….
Spending on the state’s landmark health insurance initiative would rise by more than $400 million next year, representing one of the largest increases in the $28.2 billion state budget the governor proposed yesterday.
The biggest driver of the cost increase is projected growth in the number of people signing up for state-subsidized insurance, which now far […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Faceless Shakedown Devils by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
True Adventures
Very few writers manage the trick of creating characters who become true immortals, characters that live apart from the author’s work and continue long after the author’s death, characters that entire into the culture apart form the author, almost as if they were living, breathing people. Interest and fascination with these immortals never end: […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Friday, January 18th, 2008
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
2008 marks the centenary of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame the best book about talking animals ever written.* The entire text of the book is available online in several places, but I like this one due to the old-school illustrations.
*Watership Down being a very close second.
1 Comment » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Friday, January 11th, 2008
My Little Underground
Submitted for your consideration: an experiment, designed to gage interest in reprints of public domain books. The site allows you to search internet repositories of books no longer under copyright (such as Google Books) and then order a copy. The cool thing is that requesting a reprint does not put you on the hook to […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Keep It To Yourself
The song I have stuck in my head today is Fresh by Kool and the Gang. And I have to say I would totally jump at the chance to see Monsieur Kool and friends in concert. I have fond memories of not only Fresh, but songs like Joanna, Cherish and of course Get […]
11 Comments » - Posted in The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid, Music by The Silver Fox
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Requiescat In Pace: Andrew Olmsted
I can remember reading his blog way back before I had one of my own. Maj. Olmsted was killed in Iraq yesterday. The world is just a little bit smaller now.
1 Comment » - Posted in History by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Hungry Like The Fox
One thing I’d like to do more of this year is cook. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a resolution though, more like a vague determination. Between both our busy schedules, neither The Girl nor I did a lot of cooking as 2007 wound down, so ideally we’ll have some more home-cooked […]
