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If not for you, winter wouldn’t hold no spring, couldn’t hear a robin sing. I just wouldn’t have a clue, if not for you. – Bob Dylan Got a note from Jay Birmingham. “I read something on your site that spurred me to compose.” Take that as a great compliment. So, here it is. Robin-Song…
Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one A pretty girl and an honest one A cold beer— and another one! It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money! May you die in bed at ninety-five years,…
We’re all scared to death. I guess that’s the penalty we pay for living in a world where all the price tags end in 99 cents, and they sell mortuary plots on billboards next to the freeway. What you do is … is keep laughing. – Jim Rockford Remember “The Rockford Files”? Showing my age…
We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in…
One of these times I’ll catch that perfect peak of a day, and when I blow away from the field there’ll be no catching me. – Tom Fleming LONG RUN FOR THE MONEY MARATHONERS EARNED AS MUCH AS A BUCK A STEP WHILE VYING FOR 100 GRAND IN L.A. By Kenny Moore for Sports Illustrated….
A former TV star came down a golden escalator with paid supporters cheering and I dug up 1992’s NOT JUST ANOTHER BOOGER-BREATH DOOTBRAIN. Nine years later, the Orange Avenger is still with us. And so is Dave Barry. VOTE FOR DAVE BARRY! From THE ADVENTURES OF BARKER AJAX, PSYCHO JOURNALIST. It’s time once again to…
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it. – George Burns Next-generation aging experiments have already led to findings that extend the life span of mice by…
“The night before I woke up, I had a nightmare that I didn’t finish the race…Just all the stress of this race, I don’t think I went to the well as much as I did in Chicago or Boston, as far as during the race. I was so nervous that I was going to mess…
When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics. – Frank Ocean Hank didn’t kill himself. Depression killed my grandson. Hank was eighteen. 18. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among people ages 15-24. Hank loved math, it made sense to him. Me, not so much. But 19% seems…
…Somebody “pulled the Negro out of the car by his belt.” The drivers “hit him several times with their fists and knocked him to the ground.” One of the drivers pulled out a knife. “Before you kill him,” he said, “I want to put the same scars on him that he put on Brown.” Said…