Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Air-cooled Volkswagens are some of my first and fondest automotive associations, dating back to the 1971 Squareback in which I rode home from the hospital in 1974, and the stories I heard of the 1962 Sedan that was my mother’s first car. Vroom, vroom… The baby blue ‘62 So it was with gleeful delight that I unwrapped the book think small, [...]
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Tide of tears carries holiday story to Munster In Northwest Indiana, they claim bragging rights to "A Christmas Story." Author Jean Shepherd was raised in Hammond, just a few miles up the street from the Theatre at the Center in Munster. But I suspect tannenbaums can trump BB guns and, this year, "The Christmas Schooner" will beat out poor, misunderstood Ralphie for the local holiday...
Dartman's World Of Wonder (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
If you don't know who Jean Shepherd is, you should probably look up "A Christmas Story" on Wikipedia and find out. Yes, the Christmas classic that gets run for 24 hours every year on TBS. In case you didn't know, he wrote it! Actually, he wrote the book that it is based on. Don't go looking for it at your book store because it won't be there. What will be there is a book called "In God...
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
And Gary North is master of ceremonies.
A Change in the Wind (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Rebecca Solnit, one of today's great thinkers, wrote recently in her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost: It is in the nature of things to be lost and not otherwise. Think of how little has been salvaged from the...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Carlos Kleiber conducts a rousing performance of Johann Strauss II's Amid Thunder and Lightning (Tokyo, May 1986), the very model of a polka. (For an interestingly more moderate performance, here's Herbert von Karajan from the 1987 Vienna New Year's Concert.) by Ken You may remember that I wrote recently about a project some years back where I wound up creating little 15-20 minute suites of wonderful...
Al Filreis (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
My dear friend John Giannotti , the noted sculptor, reminded me yesterday that Jean Shepherd once called for a "Dream Collection Day." Here's what Jean said: John writes: "Although meant to show the utter uselessness of the creative spirit, it had exactly the opposite effect on me -- which Shepherd probably knew anyway."
Framed and Booked (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
WooHoo!!! I Made It!! That's right, folks, almost exactly two years ago, I started this challenge to read a book from every state and the District of Columbia. That's a long time to work on one challenge, but I DID it!! For the most part, this was a great challenge for me and caused me to discover some books I probably would never have read. Of course, there were some bowsers along the way also. My...
Baristanet (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
The Adult School of Montclair , which began during the Great Depression , is going strong 75 years later during the Great Recession and opens its doors to registration tomorrow. The theme this year is the adult school's 75th birthday. The cover is a cupcake with a sparkler on top, and the Adult School reminds us of a prestigious history, with past speakers that have included Isaac Asimov, Jean Shepherd...
The Doc Searls Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Imagine a “News from Lake Wobegon” without the homespun prairie jive, lasting for more than an hour every weeknight, and packed with great stories, mostly of being a normal kid from greater blue-collar Chicago. That was Jean Shepherd, who was Required Listening in New York — and the whole Northeast — from the ’50s [...]
Ednotes Online - The Blog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Talk about the Woodstock nostalgia craze going on this weekend (later, see my personal story - no, I was not there but in Europe that summer). My friends and I were fierce Shepherd fans as teens. Even if you have no idea who he is (best known as author of "A Christmas Story" story) check it out. The narrator, Harry Shearer, just told the story of Shepherd holding a milling where he tells...
Hellbound Alleee (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
"Shep" refers to the great Jean Shepherd of "A Christmas Story" fame. "Bulldada" is unintentional hilarity, and, in this case, unintentional hilarity of the type that finds its way to you in the mail, slipped into a library book, hiding on a thrift-store shelf, or pinned to a public kiosk. Information that can CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Listen as Jean Shepherd, from April 1965,...
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
Here's more about the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's 2009-2010 season lineup:
Neanderpundit (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Got thirty seconds of mist this morning. My water bill is gonna suck. I love people who complain about the weather in texas, or florida. You want hardy motherfuckers? Come to the midwest. The lake effect dumps tons of snow, and we have winters that can get down into the -30 temps. The cold grips [...]
Read:My:Back (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Few possessions can be described as both "cherished" and "brown." But as I recently became the owner of this Arvin 65R58 AM radio, I'm happy to challenge that widely-held notion. The primitive ghetto blaster at left belonged to my father,...
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verghjyug | 12/26/2007
Melinda Rose Dillon (born October 13, 1939 in Hope, Arkansas) is an American actress. Though best known for her supporting performances in films, Dillon got her start as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. Her first major role was as Honey in the original 1962 Broadway production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress
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