Friday, October 29, 2010
Free music (but buy the record)
I love Robert Earl Keen's Corpus Christi Bay. Ironically, it's a great drinking song.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Horror alert!
Four consecutive Hammer Frankenstein movies on Friday. TCM is all horror from Friday until Sunday. This was a terrific series. I underrated it for years but the more I watch them they better most of them seem. Cushing is incredibly good as the Baron.
Barbecue blowout
There's going to be a barbecue cook-off in Summerville at Dowdy Park on Saturday. Get there early; the parking isn't so good. Supposed to be at least 15 chefs and they're encouraged to cook extra to sell. It's set up for lunch time but opn until 4 4 p.m.
The art of Charles Knight
I read a little about Knight in a piece on Ray Harryhausen and found this site. Knight's dinosaur stuff is fantastic. You can see why it has captivated people for years.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Bullwinkle co-creator dies
I just bought a DVD with Rocky and Bullwinkle and my daughter really loved them. Anderson's passing is sad news.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Winds of change
Foreign wind energy companies dominate DOE policy according to story on American Spectator blog. The anti-turbine folk on Lookout Mountain will want to read this.
Damn Yankees
By Espy
Any day the Steinbrenner Monster falls short in the playoffs is a good day and the Yankees being eliminated in the ALDS by the Texas Rangers made Friday a REALLY good day. I will not claim to have predicted this upset, but I've been following the Rangers on the side for the last few years and really like the team they've put together.
They can thank the Braves for two of those key components, shortstop Elvis Andrus and super reliever Neftali Feliz, who along with three other players were shipped West when the Braves rented Mark Texeira for a few months three years ago. Texeira is now with the Yankees -- hahahahahahahah -- but was hurt and not on the roster for the end of the Texas series.
Imagine what the Braves' future would look like now if they had Andrus and Feliz now, but the Texeira move was a bold one that just didn't pan out; no use crying (too much).
Hopefully the Giants will make it a two underdog World Series by finishing off the fat Phillies.
Born a National League man I almost always back the NL team in the Series, but this year will be an exception.
Go Rangers!
By the way, the Yankees opened the season with a team payroll of over $206 million and added some expensive reinforcements; the Rangers came in at $55 million and change. The Rangers actually cut more than $12 million off their payroll from the previous year, though they did trade for the terrific (and soon to be a free agent) Cliff Lee.
Once again, go Rangers!
Any day the Steinbrenner Monster falls short in the playoffs is a good day and the Yankees being eliminated in the ALDS by the Texas Rangers made Friday a REALLY good day. I will not claim to have predicted this upset, but I've been following the Rangers on the side for the last few years and really like the team they've put together.
They can thank the Braves for two of those key components, shortstop Elvis Andrus and super reliever Neftali Feliz, who along with three other players were shipped West when the Braves rented Mark Texeira for a few months three years ago. Texeira is now with the Yankees -- hahahahahahahah -- but was hurt and not on the roster for the end of the Texas series.
Imagine what the Braves' future would look like now if they had Andrus and Feliz now, but the Texeira move was a bold one that just didn't pan out; no use crying (too much).
Hopefully the Giants will make it a two underdog World Series by finishing off the fat Phillies.
Born a National League man I almost always back the NL team in the Series, but this year will be an exception.
Go Rangers!
By the way, the Yankees opened the season with a team payroll of over $206 million and added some expensive reinforcements; the Rangers came in at $55 million and change. The Rangers actually cut more than $12 million off their payroll from the previous year, though they did trade for the terrific (and soon to be a free agent) Cliff Lee.
Once again, go Rangers!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Back to work
Sorry to be absent from the Outpost so long, but I'm back now to help try and stem the tide of ignorance sweeping the world.
I've been sick for awhile and the most pressing problem has been several months of a sleep disorder which pretty much knocked me out of action. Recently I was diagnosed with slip apnea and put on the breathing device at night. That has helped enormously and though I still have an unexplained difficulty falling asleep, I take a pill to help there and now am getting at least 5-7 hours quality sleep a night.
That may not sound like much but I was getting less than 1-2 hours quality sleep a night night for a long time.
I stayed exhausted.
My improvement has me back blogging and I hope to rebuild the number of people who checked out the site. I also plan on doing more of my own writing here and returning sports-related links to this site. I was posting them elsewhere.
I've been sick for awhile and the most pressing problem has been several months of a sleep disorder which pretty much knocked me out of action. Recently I was diagnosed with slip apnea and put on the breathing device at night. That has helped enormously and though I still have an unexplained difficulty falling asleep, I take a pill to help there and now am getting at least 5-7 hours quality sleep a night.
That may not sound like much but I was getting less than 1-2 hours quality sleep a night night for a long time.
I stayed exhausted.
My improvement has me back blogging and I hope to rebuild the number of people who checked out the site. I also plan on doing more of my own writing here and returning sports-related links to this site. I was posting them elsewhere.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Peachy politics
Republican functionary quits post over Nathan Deal candidacy. I don't care for Deal for multiple reasons and hate the fact the state GOP could do no better for its nominee. Barnes seems to have rolled over to the old demo establishment, so it looks like I'll be voting Libertarian. From Jim Galloway at the AJC.
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