Recent content by tonyb

I’m a bit envious. I have blood relatives going back to the mid-1800s buried behind a countryside church in Wisconsin. That’s not in the cards for me, seeing how my father died when I was four months old and my mother remarried and my connections with that world, while not entirely severed, were...

^^^^^^^ I recall Willie saying several years ago that he turned down an offer to record “The Gambler.” He said he knew it would be a big hit (as it was, for Kenny Rogers) and he didn’t want to have to play it every night for the rest of his working life. Willie’s book is so deep that he has...

^^^^^^ Willie Nelson recently had his 91st birthday. The lovely missus and I attended a live outdoor show of Willie and his band about five years ago. The star attraction sat on a chair for most of the performance while his older sister Bobbie (since deceased) on piano and Mickey Raphael on...

“Nekromantik” I saw it in a little art house not long after its release. I have since forgiven the person who suggested we go see it. But it took a while.

The songwriters say otherwise. But it’s understandable how a person might think that.

I fear I’d be embarrassed for myself for attending a Rolling Stones show these days. An old girlfriend and I were in the audience during the Seattle stop on the Sinatra/Sammy Davis Jr./Dean Martin tour (but Martin bowed out mid-tour and was replaced by Liza Minnelli) back in, like, 1988(?). So...

Telephone and door-to-door soliciting are disrespectful of the receivers’ time. They are demanding of our attention, which, you know, is kinda rude, seeing how they take us away from what we’d rather be doing. I let calls from numbers I don’t recognize go to voicemail. Most auto-dialed...

I did some looking into the etymology of “nostalgia” and learned that it originally meant something akin to “homesickness” and was literally considered an illness by physicians treating soldiers who found themselves far from home and all that was familiar. (Fearing for one’s own life might have...

^^^^^ That really sucks. My condolences.

Same stuff, a cursory search indicates. It went from prescription only to over-the-counter here in God’s Country in 2020. I’ve found it much more effective for relief of joint pain than oral NSAIDs. I’m guessing it’s safer, too, but I’ll go over that with the physician when I see him next week.

… you detect gravity getting stronger with each passing year.

Does she have a sister?

… you discover the wonders of Voltaren.

How is it that clothes seem to shrink over time? I swear, the rags that once fit me well have gotten smaller over the years.

I got my first driver’s license by sending in four box tops from my Post Toasties and a self-addressed stamped envelope.