Hello Again, On this particular Saturday night, I stayed home.....I went nowhere, saw no one.....It was divine.....Lake Wobegon is fine.....Soup, sandwich & Fritos was my dinner.....Also fine.....Yankee Stadium is an awesome place.....I was there in May.....I've been to NYC only twice, but both times it's been a great visit.....I'm looking foward to going again sometime.....Tapestry by Carole King is the greatest female artist album, ever.....Sheryl Crow will be one of the all-time greats,...

Hello Again, They are now selling Prozac at Dodger Stadium.....But only when Eric Gagne enters a game.....Where has West Coast Julie Brown (the white one) been lately?.....Who'll ever forget her big hit, Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun?.....My big Saturday plans: listening to Prarie Home Companion.....Watching a video.....Reading a book.....Extra sleeping.....Not going anywhere & feeling good about it.....I talk a lot about Nevada, but Arizona is also a good place to visit.....New Mexico, too...

Hello Again, Didja ever notice that we live much of our lives making references to or dealing with people, places and things known for their three letters? I'll bet we know all these..... USA.....FBI.....CIA.....FCC.....FAA.....AMA.....USC.....RCA.....WWW.....SEC.....DMV.....LAX.....NYC.....NBA.....NFL.....NHL.....DFW.....FLA..... MIT.....BBC.....KGB.....NBC.....CNN.....CBS.....ABC.....UPN.....TNT.....TBS.....TLC.....ATM.....CBC.....IRS.....MTV.....NYU.....JDL.....KFC..... SBC.....AT&...

Hello Again, I read with great consternation that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig was just granted a 3-year extension through 2009. This comes less than 3 months after he said that he wouldn't serve past 2006. Previously, he said that he wouldn't serve past 1998. What a politician he would make! In spite of his questionable leadership, baseball is in good, if not great shape. The NFL & NBA have clearly surpassed baseball in popularity and Selig must bear the blunt of the blame...

Hello Again, Earlier, I spent over 2 hours working on a blog.....The whole thing was about baseball.....It was carefully & lovingly written, as I love the game.....I also have slow dial-up service.....You see it coming, don't you?.....A friend calls me, and I lose my AOL connection.....Of course I lose the blog.....I was beyond pissed.....I was sooo pissed that I went to the bathroom & pissed.....I also discovered that my cat had left a dead mouse in there.....Thanks a lot, kitty!.....And ...

Hello Again, You know that day destroys the night.....Night divides the day.....If I hear one more "clever" anchorperson, weather nerd or DJ call Wednesday "Hump Day", I'm going to scream!.....What has gotten into the Cleveland Indians?.....Great article in the latest Rolling Stone about Clear Channel and their stranglehold on radio and concert promotions.....The Athens Olympics are creating the least amount of buzz locally that I can remember.....Ruth isn't terribly bright, either.....Who...

Hello Again, In all seriousness, I do enjoy this.....It's a welcome release for someone who works professionally as a writer.....Even if someone disagrees with something I wrote, I take it as a sign they care, and I don't take it personally.....Internet reports are calling last night's WWE SummerSlam SummerSnore.....I'll see a friend's tape of it later.....Vince McMahon should take note, though: An awful lot of people paid an awful lot of money to see the pay-per-view.....And the arena in ...

Hello Again, Just before graduating from high school in 1992, one of my teachers told me that in ten years, I would not be the same person that I was then. I'm 30 nowadays, and the teacher was right. Sooo much has happened since then, both personally and in society. So many people have come & gone. Let's not forget all the experiences, good & bad. We all grow & change, and I'm no exception. What I take special note of is the changes of opinion and perspective that I've experienced. For exa...

Hello Again, I consider myself very lucky.....I mostly get to work at home.....I was out with my friends Saturday night.....At one place, an absolute horse's ass of a drunk wouldn't leave our table.....The four of us excused ourselves, and told him we had to go to the ladies' room.....We didn't say which club's ladies' room.....I was designated driver again.....I haven't seen any stats lately, but alcoholism sure seems to be on the rise.....A sign of our stressful times, I guess.....The LA...

Hello Again, I repeat, USC will NOT win the national championship.....You read it here first.....The smart money was on Bernard Hopkins over Oscar De La Hoya.....Result: Hopkins wins by KO in the 9th.....If the vote in Louisiana Saturday is going to be invalidated by a court, and proponents there expect that to happen, just what was the point in having it?.....LSU was upset by Auburn Saturday.....Just coincidence, I'm sure.....The Southeastern Conference is the best league in all of colleg...

Hello Again, I was inspired by reaction to a recent blog of mine to share some history about "the biz". All info can be found in multiple sources, and none is gossip or heresy. You could win a bar bet with some of these facts: The only reason Paulette Goddard didn't play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind was that she couldn't produce a certificate that stated that she was actually married to Charlie Chaplin. Society's morals were much different in 1939, and Producer David O. Selznik...

Hello Again, Aaron McGruder, creator of the hilarious comic strip "The Boondocks", has it just about right in the strips of the last two weeks.....Kerry's blowing it.....An animated version of "The Boondocks" is being developed by Fox.....I hope it does better than Dilbert did on TV.....Dilbert should have been great, it wasn't.....News item: Heidi Fleiss is closing down her Hollywood Blvd. boutique and plans to open a brothel in Nevada.....Comment: it's legal there.....Federal legislation...

Hello Again, The Angels HAVE to win the AL West or they won't have any post-season at all.....In municipal elections taking place in Washington, DC, there isn't a single, solitary Republican on the ballot.....At halftime of the Stanford-Brigham Young game, the Stanford marching band performed a tribute to polygamy.....Included were one man dressed as a groom, and five "brides" of various ages and sizes.....Officials at BYU were NOT amused.....In past performances, the Stanford band has per...

Hello Again, My latest list is of things that almost happened. If some of these had actually happened, we might be looking at some things very differently. The close calls: After the Spanish-American war ended in 1898, we almost made Cuba a state! Instead, President William McKinley lobbied for, and got independence for Cuba. A young actor signed to a contract at Columbia Pictures in the early 50s was meeting with studio chief Harry Cohn for the express purpose of finding a suitable ...

Hello Again, I did something unusual for me last night.....I actually slept most of the night.....I had to be in Pasadena at 8am.....About a 20-mile drive from here.....When you have to be in Pasadena for any reason, well.....I actually like Pasadena, it's just kind of different from the rest of the Metro area.....On the way, another driver was in an awful hurry.....I was in lane #2, next to the fast lane, and he zoomed past me in his red Mazda like I was standing still.....I had to be doi...