My Uncle Bill passed away. Growing up I spent many summers with my cousin in Clearfied, PA living at his house. We would often go away on vacations, the four of us, to places like Nags Head, NC; Hersey Park, PA; and Atlantic City NJ. He loved to play craps at the casino, would go […]
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I was doing some routine backups at home today when I came across this montage that I had seen in the past but not for a long time. It is a video collection of pictures of Christ the King Church in East Cleveland, Ohio which existed from 1928 to 2009. The most relevant years in
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Google photos reminded me that six years ago A: I was already bald and 2) apparently I used to coach 4th grade CYO basketball. Thankfully the boy was around for some of the games to help. Say your pre-game prayers!
That’s right! I coached basketball. And one! Time out! Read More »
Pride of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the recluse Bill Watterson gave us ten years and many books of wonderful pleasure. First syndicated today in 1985. Sadly, I lost my entire Calvin and Hobbes library (among other things) in the great South Euclid flood of 2020. Someday hopefully I will rebuild the collection, but for now let
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Having bad luck with vehicles lately. This is as close to a classic “grandma” car as you can get, 2013 with only 63 thousand miles on it. Pretty good little car for the kids to learn to drive in. The problem is it has just a tiny little nine volt battery in it. Tonight, it
Something’s missing all right… Read More »
Right next to the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Hts is a barber shop, the Cleveland Barber Studio. It was not always this type of shop. Growing up this was one of my favorite places to ride my bike. It was the closest comic book store to my house. I am pretty sure that it
North Coast Nostalgia. . . I think. . . Read More »
I found some of the old Tales from the Darkside tv episodes on vimeo (Update: This content has since been removed) and I have been enjoying a couple every night. They are amusing and campy and very low budget. I have remembered very few of them so far, the notable exception is the lottery episode
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