Exile in Portales

That's two in a row from Chuck.  He's on sumthin' of a roll in my book.

From a Taranto tweet ... OK, it's juvenile... granted.  But it IS funny.

Today's Happy Hour will be a good one, assuming we warm up a bit between now and whenever the mood strikes me (I'm still drinkin...

Out of all the ads the NHL is running this playoff season, this one's my favorite... Yup.  It's JUST like that if you live...

... with a local flavor: Air Frame:   A CV-22 Osprey with the 20th Special Operations Wing at Cannon AFB, N.M. , descends on the cadet a...

I'm gonna have to wear a sweatshirt for Happy Hour today... ... mainly coz my personal R-factor is VERY low, given that fat is a well...

That's about the saddest thang I've read or heard lately.  I don't have any trouble believing that statistic (just go to ANY W...

At Amazon, just now: Ah... much new music, in two days time. This is what happens when you listen to Pandora's Joan Osborne station f...

From a slide-show at the WSJ ... A full moon as seen from West Orange, N.J., rose over the skyline of Lower Manhattan in New York. (Reute...

I've mentioned this a few times in the past ( ed: a few ? )... but Hockey Night In Canada is one of the thangs I REALLY miss about li...

From about three years ago... Heroes... Just For One Day I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will dri...

... I found this: BIG-ass sigh.  I miss MY travel buddy, too.  We were particularly good at that... there bein' too many points and pl...

I thought this was the best o' the bunch : It made me laugh, anyhoo.  And now I know Robert Plant and I have at least one thing in com...

Izzit? ―:☺:― How 'bout them Kings ?  So much for MY hockey prognostication skills ... and those of about a third of the rest of the...

I watched a lot o' hockey last night... but kinda-sorta missed out on the game I really wanted to watch, but did not.  Because of this (...

The whole Peter Pan crew better watch out, too.

My Buddy Ed In Florida sends this along... 16 years old Peter goes to the priest: "Father, I came to confess!" "No need, I r...

Keef... with an homage to Al Green and/or the " Memphis Sound :" I love the horn charts in this tune... they're su...

... about whether or not we're gonna take today's Happy Hour out on the verandah.  Coz it's not nice outside: Nearly 90 degree...