Thank you very, very much for all the support you have given me at this most difficult time. If you left a message here, made mention of my loss on your blog, or said a silent prayer or sent good thoughts my way, I appreciate all of it.

The funeral service was held on Monday. I found this short poem at a place called Backyard Gardener and had it read at the service. It seems appropriate to how I feel right now.  Read more 

As for having a place to go, it’s not a destination, but it’s a damn good starting point.

(Source: O’Fallon, IL Progress.)

The news that Don Imus is returning to radio came as no big surprise to me.  Read more 

Saw this while putzing around on the internets this evening: Gore Mulling Third Party Run In ’08:  Read more 

Last night when I stopped at the Crackhead Market at the bottom of The Hill to get a soda for the ride into the big city, the featured item next to the cash register was Toby Keith’s “Angry American Chopper”, presumably destined to be a big hit this Christmas in the trailer courts surrounding the market and making up much of its clientele.  Read more 

Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records and perhaps the most important figure in the acceptance of soul and R&B music by the mass audience, passed away today at age 83. He slipped and fell while attending a Rolling Stones concert in New York on October 29, the injuries eventually causing him to fall into a coma from which he never awoke.  Read more 

[Frontpaged by lambert]

We get reruns of Meet The Press around here in the wee hours of Monday morning, around the time the night shift supervisor comes around to stick his John Hancock on all the paperwork the EPA requires me to fill out each night at work. He's getting settled in, and they're flashing the cover of the latest Newsweek up on the screen: "al-Sadr: The Most Dangerous Man In Iraq". I'm thinking, "This could get ugly…"  Read more