I hope Jek’s hall project doesn’t turn out like this: Here’s how they get things done in Washington: The Dirksen Building was built in 1958 for senatorial offices….. When the building was finished, they discovered that the floor was too slippery….. So they covered it with carpet….. But the carpet was too thick so the […]

In 1996, a Pennsylvania man was arrested for harassment because every time he saw his ex-wife he oinked at her……. Someone I know coined the term “Pork Snort”…….. I wonder if that term applied in this case?……… (I know it’s not nice to make fun of those afficted with, shall we say, added poundage, but […]

A friend of ours has been looking to buy a compact SUV. His reasons: safety and the need to drive high-clearance roads for hiking. Let’s look at the latter first. Tarn and I take our Honda Accord on our hiking adventures and have yet to encounter a Washington back road we couldn’t clear. Our friend […]

Since I don’t have Sat Radio, I don’t listen to internet radio because I have a slow dial-up connection, and OKC doesn’t have any Alternative or Progressive radio stations, can anyone give me suggestions on any new groups and/or albums in the Yes, Moody Blues, King Crimson vein?…….. Or, let me know if any exist…….. […]

Who are they?…… They claim they want to be anonymous, but they are giving interviews left and right…… It’s the twelve jurors in the “Beat It” boy trail……. It’s the only thing I can come up with that would explain the verdict……. I told more than one person before the trail that Mr. Weirdo Elephant […]

First, sorry ’bout these little short posts, but I’m stuck in Nashville right now being a care giver for a friend that is going through a bone marrow transplant……. I was hoping some of you out there would take up the slack……. Please post anything (well, maybe not anything)…… While visiting Japan in 2002, President […]

Most Rock ‘n’ Roll musicians and fans probably already know this, but here it is anyway……. Doug Ingle of the band Iron Butterfly was tring to write a song called “In the Garden of Eden.”……. But according to the band’s drummer, Ron Bushy, Doug drank too much red wine…… When he tried to sing the […]

I read a local radio personality’s blog (somewhat infrequently). She works at KEXP, a great local noncommercial station that is also the most successfully internet radio station. Today she had a fascinating post from one of her readers about “Why does commercial radio suck?” , which details how unreliable (and probably unrepresentative) the ratings system […]

When cars first came to Tennessee, the city of Memphis passed a statute that a woman could drive only if a man walked in front of the car and waved a red flag to warn pedestrians of approaching danger…….. Should they do this in Seattle?………. (How much flack am I going to get over this?)…….

In Tacoma, Washington, a woman with a brain tumor went into a drugstore to get a prescription refilled for painkillers….. The pharmacist thought the prescription was fake, so he called the cops and had her arrested…. The woman tried to explain that she got the same refill at the same store every month…….. She asked […]