In one of those Michael Douglas / Demi Moore type disclosures, I've known the two members of The Borderless Puzzle for years. In fact, when I first moved to Pittsburgh in '99 Joe and Fish were two of the first people I met, and we've been friends ever since. Joe was a hippie with hair as long as Crystal Gayle. Fish was much the same (albeit a much better bowler) and I was a pale skinned punk rocker...
nebbish \NEB-ish\, noun: A weak-willed, timid, or ineffectual person. Nebbish is from Yiddish nebekh, "poor, unfortunate," of Slavic origin. Today in History daguerreotype : L. J. M. Daguerre announced the first practical photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences (1839) autogiro : aeronautical engineer Juan de la Cierva made the first successful flight in the helicopter-like...
Dina Lohan says she is proud of daughter Lindsay’s appearance in a new BBC documentary on child trafficking. AJ Mclean of BSB is gettin’ hitched. Madonna bumps into with ex-hubby Sean Penn. Fox wants Conan O’Brien. The investigative probe into the death of Michael Jackson is nearing its end. Peace the Spork Out goes to the guy who created Gumby. Yoko [...]
January 1, 1735- Paul Revere, Revolutionary War. January 1, 1752- Betsy Ross, designed first U.S.flag January 1, 1895- J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director January 2, 1920- Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction Writer January 3, 1892- J.R.R. Tolkien, Author of "Lord of the Rings" January 3, 1950- Victoria Principal, Actress January 3, 1956- Mel Gibson, actor, director [...]
…means reading those crazy crazy liner notes, full of pretention and affection. …means finding Jim Kweskin’s Jug Band and Steve Martin as a wild and crazy guy. …means wondering why my wife had so much Barry Gibb when she was a young teen. And uh, Crystal Gayle? …means laughing over the albums that we gave each other on [...]
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue is a popular country-pop music song by Crystal Gayle. The song is written Richard Leigh and first appeared on Gayle’s 1977 album, We Must Believe in Magic. Crystal Gayle – Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue Lyrics: Don’t know when I’ve been so blue Don’t know what’s come over you You’ve [...]
Everybody hates something, and often, our choices are highly personal. Nevertheless, there’s a certain consensus about the most reviled Top-40 hits of all time: “Muskrat Love,” “You’re Having My Baby,” “Run Joey Run,” and “Seasons in the Sun” would make most people’s lists, I think. And “You Light Up My Life,” too. In my...
By Russ Corey, Staff Writer U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, brought a message of unity to the Tuscumbia Multi-Purpose Center on Saturday. The Alabama gubernatorial candidate was the keynote speaker at the Colbert County chapter of the Alabama Democratic Conference's annual unity banquet.
Know what this trio of names has in common -- Tom Waits , Crystal Gayle , and Francis Ford Coppola ? They collaborated on the music for Coppola's 1982 film One from the Heart . Waits was the creative mind behind the film's music, he performed a number of duets with the country singer, and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for his efforts. However, that was about all the notoriety the film...
When your pooch is not doing well, sun cannot rise with more irritating languor.Emerson is fifteen years, three months of age, chalking up a litany of medically marvelous misfortunes, as do we all (but seven times slower).I find myself gazing at...
Up here in Wisconsin, we’ve had a whole string of days this week best described as leaden. Gray, windy, spitting raindrops—such a day isn’t an artistic masterpiece, but it’s not necessarily bad, either. Bright frosty mornings and golden sunny afternoons are October also, but blustery weather definitely has its place. I was out in it [...]
I was searching for a song that expresses my angst with the horrible cast of characters known as the Dallas Cowboys.Crystal Gayle is on break (plus she lives in Tennessee)So you wander around, wondering if you will find an...
With less than four weeks between us and the 2009 Virginia Gubernatorial Election, the campaigns of Creigh Deeds and Bob McDonnell could not be going in more opposite directions. In short, McDonnell’s train is rumbling towards the finish at high speed, while Deeds is bumbling and stumbling towards a disappointing (for Democrats) date with destiny. As this marathon race heads into the home stretch,...
After quite some time we had one of the fluorescent lights at home, fuse. Getting to a store and looking at shelves with bulbs, I was prompted to try an incandescent light bulb, priced at Rs. 13 over the fluorescent one priced at over a hundred and fifty bucks. I know fluorescent bulbs consume less energy, emit white light, are less warmer, and remain lit for a far longer time than incandescent ones....
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