First ... Never forget where you came from ...
More Important:
GoFundMe Family in Need So many displaced.
So much of of rural Western N.C. still in need. The stories are brutal.
Back on regular schedule soon.
Later ...
A Half Century + of Life, Memories and Tales both Long and Short
First ... Never forget where you came from ...
GoFundMe Family in Need So many displaced.
So much of of rural Western N.C. still in need. The stories are brutal.
Back on regular schedule soon.
Later ...
But first. Congratulations to a fellow movie buff , a very knowledgeable one with. My friend Virginie Saia Pronovost,
who celebrates her blogs 10 year anniversary! Link to her blog below.
A quick endorsement. Rivergirl Fishing. Family fun. The South Fork of the New River in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. What a locale 😎. Something tells me by Spring of '25 business will be rocking 😎
"Boss, you can't swim..."
"Bears can. Gotta be authentic and keep it real."
Onward ...
Some random stuff to kick off the week.
*The Redskins beating the Bears on a hail mary. Wild finish.
*Ravens. Skip this, royally pissed.
*Falcons. Good win. Solid road win.
*Yankees. FIX IT!!!
*Notre Dame is a National Title threat.
*Alabama still has issues.
*Colorado. Beware of the Buffs.
*We're really going to make a strong effort on the social media side of things to keep some eyes and ears focused on the Western North Carolina corridor that I'm tied to. Ashe and Watauga counties and Trade and Mountain City Tennessee. I do love those areas and they are home for me. All hands on deck.
"It's a very eclectic roster"
*Many new links on the sidebar featuring Western N.C. businesses
*GoFundMe links:
Music time. Dualing drummers 😎
Later ...
Rams certainly did. The conviction in Coach Vermeil's delivery of the message. Not a Rams fan but love that clip.
First up ...
The level of professionalism in that at-bat is at an elite level. Soto stalked the relief pitcher, Hunter Gaddis, the whole at-bat. And Gaddis is pretty darn good. Good to finally, as a fan, get back to the World Series. I was 39 in 09, the last Series appearance. 15 years, but seems longer. 😂
Volume 1 Early 70's - 1988
Yes, it was a hit. Live version from The Hague(! LOL) is pretty cool.
I love music. Probably since birth 😂. Listen to pretty much everything. Well except for Speed Metal. Grunge is iffy. And I give Rap the stink eye for the most part but there are a few Rap tunes I like. As mentioned a few blog posts back, I was fortunate growing up when it came to music. Mom & Dad liked Country, Bluegrass, Gospel. Older brother was all Country. Older sisters were listening to everything. An early song I liked, my sister had the album, was this:
A year later I had an album. Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Album cover stood out 😎. Hey, good stuff:
Jukeboxes had a role to play:
To South Carolina. Westview Elementary. On select Friday afternoons we could bring 45's to class:
Westview was quite a bit of fun the two years I spent there. A bummer that we moved out of that school district. So on to Maranatha Christian. No "bring your 45's to school" days there. 😁😂. Started listening to more Country in those days:
MTV was finally available to me in 1983
Back to Public School for High School to close out the K-12 years. Macedonia High. Admittedly it was a means to an end for me. But what a great school. With a really good faculty. Fellow students, well, it would be hard to find a friendlier bunch. Great school, great people. But I have no roots there.
That was my 5th school (one elementary school left off, it was a 2 week stay), so I was shot. Done. Wanted the finish line. Could have made a better effort on my end socially, but, it is what it is. Music wise that school was polarizing. Your Rap folks, your Metal folks, your Country folks, your Pop folks. Meanwhile I'm buying this at The Record Bar:
MTV Was rolling out greatness regularly by that point:
ZZ Top entered the orbit and declared "You will like us most of all"
Last couple of years of high school featured some great music. To my ears anyway.
A post for posts sake ...
... Roll Call ...
We strive to do things like no other ...
And I'm in a slow period ... 😏
Cards:
1.Clyde Drexler
2. Deion Sanders
3. Lawrence Taylor
4. Rickey Henderson
5. Frank Thomas
6. Roberto Alomar
7. Scott Stevens
8. Ricky Watters
9. Troy Aikman
10. Andre Tippett
11. Chris Doleman
12. Lance Alworth
13. Lance Parrish
14. Chris Chelios
15. Gary Payton
16. Warren Moon
17. Cortez Kennedy
18. Darryl Strawberry
19. Marshall Faulk
20. Dwight Evans
21. David Robinson
22. Pedro Guerrero
23. Eddie Murray
24. Jerry Rice
25. Ollie Matson
26. David Fulcher
27. Micah Parsons
28. Derrick Thomas
29. Dan Marino
30. John Elway
31. Mariano Rivera
32. Trevor Hoffman
33. Isaac Bruce
34. Dave Parker
35. Joe Montana
36. Thomas Everett
37. Cornelius Bennett
38. Dale Murphy
39. John Randle
40. Rickey Jackson
41. Eric Dickerson
42. Marcus Allen
43. Richard Dent
44. Darrell Green
45. Dan Fouts
46. Bob McAdoo
47. James Lofton
48. Ozzie Newsome
49. George Lynch
50. Willie Roaf
51. Pat Swilling
52. Bruce Smith
53. Lorenzo White
54. Rueben Mayes
55. Charles Haley
56. Gary Zimmerman
57. Adrian Dantley
58. Andre Ware
59. Richmond Webb
60. Lance Briggs
Comics:
Tarzan
Captain America
Luke Cage / Power Man
Zip, take us out ...
Later ...
#3 ... But first, an early 80's classic from Al Jarreau ...
"... Not a chance my Golden friend ..."