Exile in Portales

Otis... Aretha's version might be the most well known and might even be the standard, but Otis' version is the original...

Point-counterpoint from the Usual USAF Source .  First: No Warm and Fuzzy From Senators on More BRAC: Members of the Senate Armed Services...

I stole that line from NHL.com... but it's true: the 2011-2012 Red Wings are the SOLE owners of the NHL's record for most consecutiv...

Stolen from the Shoebox blog : Don't laugh.  You have NO ideer how many times I've seen this since I started reading blogs.  And d...

Blog-Bud Jim's 20th anniversary is comin' up... on the 29th of this month (yes, the 29th)... and he's re-running a series of o...

The Usual USAF Source featured this pic today as part of its ongoing Air Frame Series: Air Frame:   Dawn breaks over the flight line at ...

They did it... Wings 4, Flyers 3 .  So you can add the 2012 Wings to the '29-'30 Bruins and the '75-'76 Flyers as record...

Liz Story... I dunno why it is but I almost always associate gray winter days with Liz Story's moody piano pieces.  Today is such a da...

Our favorite former Nasal Radiator (now flying The Israeli Lawn Dart in his new civilian contractor gig of adversary fighter pilot), on the...

I decided not to run errands yesterday as it was too damned cold to be out and about.  Well, "too damned cold" as applied to an ...

Freddie and the Drillers... Actually not; Occasional Correspondent and Blog/Biker Buddy Lin sent this along.  I watched this three times t...

Winter's back... I HAVE to run some errands today, too.  But I'm thinkin' I won't go out until late this afternoon.

Alternate title: more cigar art.  Here are a couple o' few cigar bands from the last three or four days worth o' consumption. ...

Snail mail, that is.  Ain't these pretty? That would be two boxes of Drew Estate Isla del Sols, one in the Churchill size and one ...

...is shitting the bed.  Again.  I get this gotdamned error when tryin' to access the comment page on certain Blogger blogs... not ALL o...

Stolen from Dan ... mainly for Grandson Sean. I've never heard a guitar player master harmonics and include them in a piece as ext...

"I've got a dreadful, queasy feelin'" about November...  Santorum?  Really?  His own state wouldn't reelect him to th...

We're just in from a very brief stint on the verandah and it's jes a wee bit too chilly to enjoy ourselves out there.  So it's b...

We liked that Black Butte Porter from Deschutes Brewery so much we decided to try another one of their brews in addition to restocking the...

I like the way Mr. Kelley thinks.  From The Usual Source , of course. ―:☺:― In other news... We're 180 out from where we were y...