A couple of weeks ago, I accidentally dropped our handheld kitchen mixer onto the floor, thus ending its useful life (please don’t charge me with involuntary appliance-slaughter).
Yesterday my wife wanted to make a recipe that required a mixer. Problem? No siree! Check out this beauty:
Better yet, I can use this same device to give my wife that Jacuzzi bathtub she’s always wanted – I’ll just put some duct tape on the trigger.
As Red Green says, “if the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”
You know you’re getting old when the “alternative” bands you grew up listening to are now playing casino ballrooms:
The Pixies and Alice In Chains are both playing at the local casino this summer. The same casino that features a “Super Seniors Slot Tournament” every Wednesday!
What’s a guy to do when he’s too old to rock out anymore, but too young to qualify for the Senior Slot tourney?
Of course, perhaps the reason that both bands are playing a casino (besides being 20 years removed from their ‘hit’ songs) is the fact that both are missing key members. To me, the Pixies without Kim Deal ain’t the Pixies, and AIC without Layne Staley is very sad in more ways than one.
I met Tim Condron my freshman year of college, waaaaaay back before electricity was invented. We were fellow Communications majors, so we had a lot of the same arduous intro classes (“Video 101: How to turn on a TV set”). Tim’s one of the nicest gents you could ever hope to meet. He also happens to have a wealth of creative ideas, and sports a black belt in creative writing.
Tim’s father died young. He passed away when Tim was in college, from Hepatitis C that he contracted while working as a firefighter/paramedic and attending to an overdose victim. (No good deed goes unpunished.) You can read more about that here – Tim’s story starts on page 44. In a video production class we both took in college, Tim created a tribute video to his father, featuring still photos of his dad and family, with Steve Goodman’s “My Old Man” as the soundtrack. To this day, it remains one of the most powerful and moving videos I’ve ever seen. Whereas the video that Tim and I created based on Bruce Springsteen’s “Darlington County” is better left to the Betamax dustbin of ancient history.
Tim almost died young too. A year ago he had what Fred G. Sanford would call “The Big One.”
But thanks to the miracles of modern science, he survived. And he’s created a website about life’s “second takes.” You can read Tim’s story about his near-death experience here, but below is an excerpt:
I’m on a mission to make a difference. To live a purposeful life, full of purposeful work, embracing purposeful relationships, and leaving this world a little better than it was on March 7, 2014.
My journey is ongoing. It will never end. I must continue my search for meaning. This is not simply living in the moment. It’s living with a reason, living purposefully, living to make a difference. Living to be more than just another guy who some people knew but who passed away with all his ideas undeveloped, his passions unexplored, his words unspoken, his purpose undiscovered, his dreams unfulfilled, his fate left to people and circumstances that mattered not.
Godspeed, TC! Here’s some travelin’ music for your journey…
A new season of “Dancing with the Stars” premiers Monday. ABC claims it’s Season 20 but it feels more like Season 4,192. At this point, they are obviously scraping the bottom of the pseudo-celebrity barrel to get contestants. It might be time to change the name of the series to:
“Dancing with People You Might Vaguely Have Heard of Before”
“Dancing with Anyone Who Has a Pulse and an Aggressive Agent”
“Dancing with Those Who Have Already Used Up Their 15 Minutes of Fame”
“Dancing with People from Page 62 of People Magazine”
Noel Gallagher is the Don Rickles of modern rock music. In a recent interview in Rolling Stone, he manages to insult pretty much everyone (except Bono) and everything (except the banjo). I get the sense that his tongue is firmly in his cheek for most of the barbs. And I found this quote very poignant: “You can’t stay playing a Les Paul through a Marshall stack forever.”
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