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Taking My Scoff Syrup
By now everybody’s seen the recently released declassified UFO files and gone back to watching the old movies like Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” which I watched night before last on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Of course, Spielberg’s new movie, “Disclosure Day” is coming out this month coincided perfectly with release of…
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I Look Back Once in a While
Every once in a while, I look back in my past. It’s not always the greatest thing to do, but when most of the memories are good, then it’s OK, I guess. I saw something that made me do this about a week ago while I was taking a walk around the block. It’s a…
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You Have to Read the Reblogs About Florida Man!
This is a twofer reblog because you get two blogs for the price of one! No, you don’t have to buy anything. The main event is a song entitled “Florida Man” by Selwyn Birchwood, mainly because I first heard it a few years ago on what is now, sadly, the retired Big Mo Blues Show,…
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Do I Know Anything More about How You Can Prove a Negative? ReBlog!
I anticipated that WordPress would suggest I do a reblog of my post from June 8, 2021, “Aliens Dancing on My TV Remote Again.” I can’t remember whether I ever found out why our TV remote control was clicking like it was possessed by a demon or extraterrestrial or not. Maybe that’s because I was hypnotized…
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Da Blues with Bobby D: I Prefer “Bye Bye Blues”
I can tell you I only half-listened for the most part to ‘da Blues with Bobby D (Bob DeForest) last night on KCCK because I was working on something else. But I could not block out the song “Living in a Dangerous Time” from the Little Axe Champagne & Grits album. I felt haunted by…
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Time for July Psychiatry Consults Reblog Reflections; Ouch!
Here’s a reblog post from June 6, 2019. As I reflect on it, I remember with chagrin the time when I tried to fix the challenge of difficult to decipher psychiatry consult questions. What it taught me belatedly is that you just can’t fix everything. I think my frustration was obvious to the trainees and…
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Correctly Pronounce the Name Odysseus or Just Call Him Bud
I read an interesting essay yesterday in an issue of Iowa Now about a great story in Greek mythology. It’s the story of The Odyssey, which I have difficulty remembering how to spell. And that reminds me of a couple of anecdotes. They both involve my learning about Greek mythology from two great teachers at…
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Last Day of Cow Week and Today is National Donut Day!
It’s the last day of Cow Week and Mike Waters is doing his wake-up call this morning. And he announced that today is National Donut Day! I had no idea. He’s wondering whether there are any bakeries in Eastern Iowa that could get a shout-out for it. I had to look this up on the…
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Photogenically Speaking…
I suppose you’re wondering why most of the photos of me don’t match the one that goes with the About Me picture on my blog’s home page. It’s mostly about vanity, but that can’t be the whole explanation. Otherwise, all of my headshots would be the same as the About Me picture. This is all…
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Cow Cap for Cow Week & Other Mysteries
I went to the mall yesterday and just for the heck of it went to a cap shop (no, not the cop shop; I was a good boy!) and bought a cow cap! The store is called Lids Locker Room for obvious reasons. I told the salesman why I wanted it, filling him on the…
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