Exile in Portales

I think it's a condition of employment for weathermen:  your forecast MUST be a worst-case scenario, come Hell or high water.  So our ...

Many, if not most, of you Gentle Readers may have been confused by my post title last night when I referred to Niklas Lidstrom as "The...

I eat out a lot.  Prolly way more than I should, actually, but I do eat well.  I'll admit to making a couple o' runs a month to Mick...

For this (courtesy of the NWS/ABQ): ... Winter Weather Advisory in effect from 6 PM this evening to 11 am MST Friday... The National Weath...

It feels like this sometimes, don't it? From the usual source .

It's hard to believe he's gone this long without one, but St. Nick got his first ever hat trick tonight.  Here's Sean Leahy, wri...

And today I learned how to say "dickhead" in Russian.  Thus: zalupa (залу́па) means "penis head" (from old Russian ...

I've been seeing more than a few Christmas posts around the 'sphere of late and more than a few featuring the ways we decorate for t...

...so let's do Twitter!  I'm not gonna beat on Twitter, not really.  I LIKE Twitter and get a lot of good stuff from it.  That said,...

Today and tomorrow, anyhoo.  We're in from the day's errands and it was pretty danged cool to be jetting around P-Ville with the top...

... but this is why I hold Facebook in contempt: World Moments Whether it be the tragedy of the Haitian earthquake or the heroic rescue of...

"That just wasn't right!" sez he.  Wrong... that was right as rain!

Pink Floyd... It's true:  I wish you were here.  A day like this, while not wasted, would surely benefit from convivial conversation a...

This is what happens to kids whose parents have owned digital cameras since Day One, and that would be just about everyone under the age of ...

... and some of my blog-buds are sufferin' for it as well, in places as diverse as Tennessee , Minnesota , and (we assume) Calgary .  Yo...

113,411 crazy people, all in one place : I think that's pretty cool (heh), actually, but it ain't MY cuppa.  Now with that said, ...

Last night at The Joe: As the announcers said... "a goal scorer's goal!"  Datsyuk was hot last night... he's hot EVERY ...

Just in from running the day's errands, which included a stop at the cleaners to pick up the wash'n'fold (Bless You My Children!...

From the usual source .

An occasional correspondent sends this along: Siamese twins walk into a bar in Canada and park themselves on a bar stool.   One of them s...