Eight Days to Amish

No Paychecks . . . No Prospects . . . Always How one writer struggles to elevate from the hammock, overcome his God-given laziness and earn a living in a cruel world that insists he work. (The title of this blog is in no way aspirational or should be considered an endorsement of the Amish lifestyle)

Monday, July 18, 2011

16 things you didn't know about Peter Frampton

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1. I met him in 2000 at a New Orleans entertainment conference I was assigned to cover. We talked for about 10 minutes and he couldn’t have...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Small town funeral etiquette

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In hindsight it seems ghoulish to follow up a re-run post about death with a fresh post about death. I don’t care. Death is topically...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Death to boring dinner deaths (from 2008)

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I like to think maybe someone is sitting at his or her desk and watching the clock roll on in slow motion to 5 p.m. They don’t feel like wor...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Conservatives illuminating only own ignorance

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I may not agree with all their wacky views, but I can understand conservatives getting in their typical purple-faced tizzies over things lik...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Space needs more, not less, junk

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NASA worry warts are once again saying the sky is falling, and this time they may be right. The once-pristine heavens are starting to rese...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Roberto Clemente, Mr. 3,000

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Baseball fans all over America were celebrating Saturday when Yankee great Derek Jeter got his 3,000th hit. Not me. I love Jeter, b...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Tweet round-up

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So here you go, another occasional " Tweets of the Month " post. In the interest of titular integrity, I'm only doing one a mo...
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