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(Electric) Snow Blowers are Bad!

I know, I know! Electric snow blowers are bad. I know this and so does every red-blooded American homeowner in the northern zip codes. Don’t get me wrong, there are good things about these machines,… 

My 3rd Rail Tale

Commuting by train can be a time and money saving solution when working in a big city. Chicago has a train system, the Chicago Transit Authority or CTA that moves thousands of people in and… 

A Shot Heard Around the Yard

My dad inherited an old Western Field 10-Guage shotgun from his mother’s father, who used it for hunting geese. It was ancient. He kept it (unloaded) in the closet of the master bedroom when we… 

Skiing On a Sheet of Ice

It was January 1998 and Sonny Bono had just died on Heavenly Mountain Resort in Lake Tahoe from a skiing accident. I was in Wisconsin, Cascade Mountain, looking down at my boots attached to skis.… 

23 Hockey Goals

Most people that know me, know two things for sure. One, I am really into music. I have recorded several albums. Two, I don’t know much about sports. I felt when I was young, I… 

Almost Busted in Three Kings

Some stories are fun to share and others simply need to be told. This one is the latter. Am I proud of it? I’ll let you decide. Let’s unpack this one… It was 1982 and… 

Caught Smoking

Like any curious teenager, I took up smoking, in a classic scene, three young boys walking down an empty railroad track in the wintertime. Literally, on a dare I took my first puff (menthol) and… 

The Shrinking Box Game

There once was a cat named Gabriel who thought he might be part dog. when he was young he would run the house but later it became a jog. He shared his noble home with another.… 

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At the Rocky Horror Picture Show with an Egg

So, enter the cult-classic movie, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Written by Richard O’Brien produced and released in 1975. Nobody seen that coming. Nobody could really explain it. It was just a moment in time,…