Archive for September, 2007

The Bigger They Are…

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Seems a day doesn’t go by when there’s not a news story about the mis-deeds, bad actions, or just plain horrendous attitude of some Hollywood star.

You’d think they all were a degenerate bunch of self-serving pleasure seekers.
 
But, back in 1982, an incident occurred that put Paul Newman on the top of my permanent [...]


Scamming For Dollars….

By now—most everybody whose been on-line for more than 7 minutes has gotten one of those e-mails promising untold riches by the bag-load…and most of the time, we just hit the delete key and keep on looking at wacky videos on You-Tube…

But the other day– this one found its way into my computer—
 

—and as [...]


YAKITTY YAK—They Talk Back….

When I started this blog 18 minutes ago– I promised it would be a place where you could talk back to your TV.. ( we even put it in the title to make sure the promise wouldn’t be forgotten.)
Our recent post regarding brushes with greatness prompted reader Lisa Sullivan to send us her own tale… [...]


STEPPING IN IT….

There are times in everybody’s life when they’ve said—boy, I wish I’d NEVER said that….

It’s especially true when you can look at your words through the perfect vision of hindsight…
What seemed so assured at the time turns out to be dead wrong…
So in that spirit of 20/20 hindsight—let’s look at some quotes of note from [...]


BRUSHES WITH GREATNESS…

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There are times in your life when your path crosses someone else’s—and that person is either doing wonderful things with their life—or is on the way towards doing wonderful things.
I can recall a couple instances…
BRUSH WITH GREATNESS #1….
Back in the mid 70’s I was looking for work and ended up at the CBS [...]