The Lost Art of Album Cover Design, Six of My Favorite Covers and Their...
One of the best things about vinyl LP's was the album art. It was tactile. Large format. Sometimes it was even textural. While you listened to the music, you could hold the album jacket in your...
View ArticleBored to Death in Duncan, Oklahoma
I checked in to see if the news out of Duncan, Oklahoma, yesterday had made any ripples in the DKos pond or prompted any diaries. I can't say that I'm surprised that it hasn't.An Australian college...
View ArticleA Songbird Has Lost its Voice: Linda Ronstadt Has Parkinsons
I know there are more momentous things going on in the world, but I just read this story this morning, and it made me sad. It also made me feel suddenly old.How can it be that Linda Ronstadt, whose...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? Steak on a Budget
I don't eat a lot of steak these days. It is expensive, and I'm on a budget...and my wife can really take red meat or leave it. But sometimes you just want to put your knife and fork into some beef,...
View ArticleWhat if David Allan Coe Wrote a DKos Diary?
Work with me here...I need your help. Remember the David Allan Coe song, "She Never Even Called Me by My Name"? In case you don't, here it is. It was a gentle poke in the eye at the time it was...
View ArticleI Am, Personally, Responsible for All of the Evil The World
All of it. From Hutu vs Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.To gang related mayhem in inner city Chicago.To the sexual trafficking in young women by Eastern European Mafias.To Urban Blight.Melting polar icecaps?...
View ArticleDante Was Wrong...There Are Ten Circles of Hell: He Didn't Anticipate Cable...
Dante's "Divine Comedy" describes 9 circles of hell. But he can easily be forgiven his inability to anticipate the Cable industry, which currently bundles virtually all of your home digital services...
View ArticleCalling All Southern Cooks!! I Need Some Quick Advice
I have a neighbor who I've been friendly with, in a neighborly way for 1 1/2 years now. He's an ex-marine, Black, and hails from Arkansas. He has been telling me for weeks now that we need to get...
View Article"The Grand Old Man": Memories of a Famous Season. George Blanda and the 1970...
The regular season of the NFL has begun. The news yesterday was all about Peyton Manning's amazing performance against last year's Super Bowl Champs, racking up 7 touchdowns in one game. It was an...
View ArticleYou Can Teach a Young Dog Old Tricks: Driving a Clutch
I was standing outside in my driveway today, working on my own car, when an old Volvo approached the intersection in my residential neighborhood. It had a "For Sale" sign in the rear window.The driver...
View ArticleMy First Garden Was the Best: Adventures in Growing Vegetables
I once grew a garden on my Mother's property...it was probably about 30' by 100'.It was the first vegetable garden I ever grew. I've planted many since, but never one that matched that garden.I had...
View ArticleWhen I Grow Up, I Want to be Willie Nelson
Fact is, I just turned 57 a cuppla days ago...so if I'm not grown up now, chances are I never will be. I was born in 1956. Saw the Beatles. Heard the Stones. I asked the aged old question...Why do...
View ArticleI'm Sorry Mom...I can't do that
This is more or less a rant. So bear with me of you will. I am 57 years old. My parents were married for 23 years. They divorced between my Junior and Senior years in High School. I had a choice...
View ArticleWorld Series, Game One: October Open Thread.
It's that time again. World Series Time. And I'm loving it. Not that my Cincinnati Reds made it here. No, they didn't. And, failing that, the Pittsburgh Pirates came up shy of making this a truly...
View ArticleWorld Series Game 2: Open Thread/Live Blog
Sorry I'm late!! I just got back from the grocery store, and I was furiously checking the clock.So...St Louis had their asses handed to them last night. It was an ugly game for all but the most...
View ArticleSongs You Are Ashamed to Admit That You Love
We all have them. They are usually pop songs from one era or another that, either because of the song itself, or the artist who recorded it, makes us cringe just a little bit, and hide our...
View ArticleWorld Series Game 4: Open Thread
Well...we got Rascal Flats out of the way. It can only go up from here.This is a huge game for both teams. It you are here, you know what the set up is. Boston is down 2 to 1, and coming off a gut...
View ArticleThis Road Leads to Nowhere, A Photo Diary
Because, sometimes, nowhere is exactly where you feel like being. I have one more great road trip left in me before my time is up on this earth, and these are the roads I want to travel down....These...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? Moroccan & Rollin in the Kitchen
North African food is, as far as I'm concerned, the last great regional cuisine that has yet to hit the big time. Sure...most big cities have at least one Moroccan restaurant...but they are mostly big...
View ArticleWe seem to have no "What's For Dinner?" diary up...so what the hell
I'm having potato-corn chowder, some grilled salmon fillets and a warm spinach salad with bacon vinaigrette.I don't know if someone forgot to post a diary or what, so this isn't a real WFD diary...just...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? Just Got Out of The Slammer Edition
A little change of pace never hurts, folks. So instead of writing about what I'm going to have for dinner...or even writing about some thematic subject, I thought I would pose a question to this...
View ArticleColor This 57 Year Old Unimpressed By Social Media
Facebook just invited my wife to be friends with my first wife. I don't know how that happened, and neither does my wife. She just got an email invite saying you might want to be friends with this...
View ArticleWhen it Comes to Public Education in This Country, I Have More Questions Than...
And I would like to pose them here, since there seems to be quite a few fellow Kossacks who make their living in education.I was born in 1956. I received what I consider to be a fine education at the...
View ArticleFrom the Unintended Irony Files: San Jose Paper Laments City's Inability to...
The near record mega-millions lottery jackpot, as most have probably heard, will be split by two individuals who each had winning tickets. The $648 million jackpot, after taxes, is already reduced to...
View ArticleThis is Why Capitalism Chose China to be the World's Manufacturer
It's because they allow companies to pollute at will. It wasn't so much labor costs that soured Business on America. It was America's growing unwillingness to continue allowing Business to privatize...
View ArticleMidwest Cuisine: In Waldo Ohio, Some Like it Fried. And That's No Baloney
Some of you...the cognoscenti in Ohio and perhaps even Pittsburgh, probably knew just from the title of this diary what the subject is. That's right...this is an homage to a humble regional sandwich...
View ArticleQuacking to the Choir
Does anyone here really watch Duck Dynasty? Does anyone here really care what this Robertson guy has to say? Is anyone here really supportive of his worldview?No.So why all of the diaries about it?...
View ArticleMusic For a Winter Day: June Tabor
I'll never forget the first time I heard June Tabor sing. I had fallen asleep on the sofa one night while listening to the radio, and awoke sometime around 1:00 AM to the sound of her singing. But it...
View ArticleIf Stephen King Wrote a Duck Dynasty Diary
All work and no play makes Phil a dull boy. All work and no play makes Phil a dull boy. All work and no play makes Phil a dull boy. All work and no play makes Phil a dull boy. All work and no play...
View ArticleSome Warm Peter Rowan on a Chilly Sunday
Warm yourselves up with some bluegrass stylings by Peter Rowan and Friends...
View ArticleThe Winter Orchard, a Photodiary
There's an austere beauty to an orchard after the blossoms of Spring, the lushness of Summer, and the abundance of fruit give way to the deep sleep of winter...
View ArticleA Cloud Over the Sochi Olympics: What Would YOU/WE Do?
It's funny how the major narrative surround a current event can turn on a dime. In the past few days there have been 2 suicide bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd, killing some 34 innocent...
View ArticleBook Review: Dr Haggard's Disease, by Patrick McGrath
I've never done a book review before (at least not since Elementary School). And Patrick McGrath wrote this particular book almost 20 years ago. So what's the deal? Why this book? Now?There are a...
View ArticleWhere Movie Buffs and Car Buffs Collide: The Auction Block (and the one that...
2013 was a big year for Hollywood collectibles sold at auction. Back in September the famous statue from "The Maltese Falcon" sold for a hefty $4 million and change. That same month saw the white...
View ArticleWest Virginia: A Photographic Roll in the Hay
West Virginia is one of those states that doesn't get much attention here on DailyKos, and when it does, it's almost always in a poor light. I thought it would be nice to do something about that.You...
View ArticleThinking of Planting or Replacing a Tree at Home? Consider This
I just finished reading a very good article from The Guardian's Environment section. (The Guardian, IMO, does the best job of reporting on environmental issues of any major newspaper currently) The...
View ArticleThere've Been Several Diaries About Charleston, WV...None Show It
The water contamination crisis in Charleston, WV, has generated some well deserved attention here. It has created a disruption in the personal and economic lives of those affected that is hard to wrap...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Bridges, and a Glimpse Into What Ails Us These Days
I live in Portland, Oregon. It's a city both defined and divided by a river. The Willamette River carves a path from the south of the city up north, where it joins the Columbia River, separating...
View ArticleOf Place and Time and Roots
I live in the city. Portland, Oregon, to be exact. But I've also lived in other cities. The East Bay of San Francisco. Los Angeles. Oklahoma City. Columbus, Ohio. I have lived in these places,...
View ArticleTechnology and Pastimes
I met an elderly lady the other day who was having one of the rooms in her home remodeled to suit her hobbies, which included sewing, quilting and stamp collecting. As she described the features she...
View ArticleWhy I left DKos
I couldn't stand the sense of victimization that infuses this place. It is omnipresent. It defines DailyKos. I am absolutely sick of it.Everybody has a grievance, and their own particular grievance...
View ArticleWhen Martha Coakley loses
When Coakley loses again, this time for the Governorship, will the Massachussetts Democratic Party finally quit regurgitating her to whichever elective office is in play in any given year? I...
View ArticleJust Out Of Couriosity...What Does Immigration Reform Look like toYou?
I am curious...Put your wonk hats on. How would you reform our current immigration policy if you could re-write it?Does the current policy of family reunification make sense in terms of our labor...
View ArticleDon't Bother Trying To Find Him...He's Not There
My Dad, that is. He checked out about two years ago. We're coming up upon Thanksgiving holiday, and my Dad won't be there. He has Alzheimers, and there is no "there" there. And I feel guilty about...
View ArticleIt's too soon to judge Obama's presidency, so I will opine on the first Black...
Long before 2008 there was another candidate for the presidency whose siren call resound with me. His name was Jesse Jackson. I contributed to his rainbow coalition. I cried when I listened to his...
View ArticleIt's been just about two years since A Kossack killed himself
His nomme de Kos was Translator. I knew him, as many of you did, by his nicname Doc. I think his real name was David.He always signed off on a comment thread with his nic-name, "Doc", and warmest...
View ArticleMy Musical Valentine
And like the best of valentines, this one goes out anonymously. Though she will know it is from me.I am smitten by you. Amazed. Enlivened. Nervous. Hopeful. And thoroughly under your spell.
View ArticleThere is a Woman Who Needs Help
I don't know her personally. She's not a Kosniak. She's not a trusted member. She doesn't have a cat that needs a hysterectomy. She doesn't own a horse that needs surgery. She's just living in her...
View ArticleIf it walks like a Riot, and Quacks like a Riot...it's a Riot
I don't give a shit if it is bunch of Kentucky yahoos upset that their basketball team didn't win, or if it's a bunch of inner city youth who feel left out of the game...There's no mystery in calling a...
View ArticleI used to post here often, but not so much anymore
I still come here, but for different reasons. My circumstances have changed, and I no longer have the time to write like I used to. I still read...but I have so little time to write. So little energy...
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