Tomorrow is the annual baseball All Star game.  Tomorrow is a day that I take off every year to spend the day getting ready to watch the game, hoping each year that the National League wins.  This year it is special because if the National League wins that may mean the Padres will have home [...]

Today is the 5th of July and I am off to celebrate the 4th since it was my normal day off.  When I think about songs that express to me what America is really about, my first thought is John Mellencamp’s Pink Houses.

One of my favorites on LOST was the amiable con man Sawyer.  I was amazed about the amount of books that he read during the six seasons of the show, but his ability (the writer’s actually) to find nicknames for everyone.  Here is a compilation of them.

Way back in the day, this was one of my favorite songs.  I really like the lyrics and hope this is how my relationship is with Ruth Ann.  At one point I bought the 12 inch single of this song on vinyl and used to play it on our turntable.  click on the album cover [...]

On the first day of summer(although you would not know it by the weather here) what better music to highlight than the man whose music just screams summer.  Jimmy Buffett, a man whose music refuse to be easily categorized into a genre.  I first heard Jimmy way back in 1977 as I headed to Mexico [...]