To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Wednesday nights at Nogglestead are often Daddy Movie Nights during the school year because the boys have a church midweek thing and my beautiful wife practices with the choir, which means I can watch a full movie with violence or bad words in it. Or, more likely, an old movie, but I can watch it […]
So ABC Books posted this on their Facebook timeline: Of course, I think 20 unread books in a home means that nobody lives in the home and it’s being staged for sale by a realtor. For the record, I have almost 20 unread books that I bought at ABC Books last year. They include: From […]
As I mentioned, I picked up a Scandinavian gospel album from a band called the Teen Tones. The album itself is called, simply, From Scandinavia. My Internet research doesn’t give it a specific year. Discogs recognizes the album but doesn’t give it a release year. The back of the record says the band formed in […]
As I mentioned, I bought a Spyro Gyra album on Friday after having heard a Spyro Gyra song on WSIE in the last couple of weeks. I was surprised, actually, that it was a pleasant, smooth jazz song that I heard on the radio. The album is, too. Apparently, Spyro Gyra is a jazz fusion […]
So for a couple of weeks, we marveled at the beautiful spider webs woven between my truck’s driver-side mirror and the ground. Some spider was working overtime to rebuild it after windy days or days where I inconveniently drove my truck somewhere, tearing the delicate hunting ground. I mused that the spider must be living […]
So one of my goals for this year was to read all the comic books I own. Well, to finish reading the comics I’d purchased, not read all the comics I owned again. Last year, I organized my comic books into short boxes and stored them. However, I had another short box of comic books […]
I prefer Linda Ronstadt’s rendition of “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”. Here is Ella Fitzgerald’s version, which I’ve enjoyed for decades: Back when I was filling my evenings with eBay doings and then writing a book, an Ella Fitzgerald compilation featuring this track was in the 6 disc CD changer in my office, so I heard […]
I have a cousin who listens to a lot of hard rock and heavy metal, so this year for Christmas, I gave her a framed hard rock album since I couldn’t find a different one at the thrift stores before Christmas. I put it in a frame and put some text on a label, and […]
At the Friends of the Christian County Library book sale this fall, I bought this family looking film: Dan Haggerty! A bear! Grizzly Mountain. It’s a Grizzly Adams movie. Ha ha, sucker! It is not a Grizzly Adams movie. Man, I’m the target audience for this film: parents who were, a long time ago, sort […]
All right, so here’s the story: A couple of months ago, the dojo where I study changed its policy and allowed students who attain a certain rank to wear a red gi and students who attain a higher rank a black gi (I already wear a black gi because I’m in a class that studies […]
Perhaps I should start a new series called Good Record Hunting to account for my trips to thrift stores looking for LPs (and, in my defense, a cheap television to hook up old computers). Yesterday, I visited the DAV Thrift Store and briefly browsed its LPs, but they were poorly arranged for browsing and cost […]
The critics predicted it: Gay marriage becomes the law of the land, and people would start buying albums of show tunes. Although, in my defense in this case, it was a collection of Pat Suzuki singing show tunes: If Mark Steyn can listen to show tunes, I can, too. At any rate, the acquisition stems […]
On Cracked.com, a list entitled 6 Awesome Things I’m Not Cool Enough To Own. Let’s compare the listing to my personal inventory: Fedora: Come on, you know me. I’ve worn a fedora, yea, verily, stood out in a fedora for twenty years now, and I’m finally starting to look like a grown up with them. […]
After my visit to the Friends of the Clever Library Book Sale last weekend, the pegs holding up one of my book shelves broke. Again. I guess I’ll read a couple of those books to lighten the load. But note how I stack books on these inexpensive bookshelves: With the understanding that the books themselves […]
Tam K. on collecting the old-fashioned way: (I’m not going the internet auction site route, because it always feels to me like the gun collecting equivalent of hunting over a baited field. It’d be like having a computerized database of exactly what old sports cars are in which barns across the country, or having clear […]
All right, so I read a book on Swedish history, which led to my new taste for lingonberries and then to commenting on Swedish news. When will it end? When will Brian J. cease with this little blog goofery fixation on Sweden? Not yet. So I mentioned I went to the Friends of the Clever […]
Well, here they are: The 106 books I read in 2011. Buried Treasures of the Ozarks by W.C. Jameson Remembering St. Louis World’s Fair by Margaret Johanson Witherspoon Missouri Bandits, Bushwackers, Outlaws by Carole Marsh A Political Bestiary by Eugene J. McCarthy and James J. Kilpatrick This Is It, Mike Shayne by Brett Halliday Battlestar […]
After reading The Seinfeld Universe, I saw the first two seasons available on DVD for $1.50. I bought them, of course, and now I’ve watched them. The first two seasons of Seinfeld (and The Seinfeld Chronicles, as it was originally known) ran roughly during my first year of college, including the first summer I spent […]
The results of the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale: Friends volunteers sold $102,068.20 in used books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks and more during the sale — the fifth consecutive Friends book sale that passed the $100,000 mark. Given the damage I did to it (or it did to me), that means I represent […]
To add variety to Valu-Rite Vodka and hobo-killin’, Ace embraces the MfBJN lifestyle: Allah, the technojunkie, is swooning over the new improved Kindle. I’m not, and I don’t think most will. For one thing it costs $360. Quite an investment. For another thing, books are not precisely difficult to carry around, especially on the places […]