Exile in Portales

More DE's than you can shake a stick at... She bucked me on the pick-up truck, she bucked me on the fence; Daddy said, "Son,...

Some might say I'm late to the party this year (and some would be correct, in nearly ALL cases of parties NOT involving alcohol) but I ...

From one of our usual sources ... I have no ideer about how many photos o' sunsets I've taken in my life but I'm certain t...

Presidential Proclamation -- Veterans Day, 2013 VETERANS DAY, 2013 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF A...

Richard Thompson ... an under-sung guitar hero and lyricist: It's a desperate game we play, Throw our souls, our lives, away Woun...

Today is the 238th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Happy Birthday, Marines.   Speaking of... there's this from my ...

I LOVE it when Thanksgiving rolls around, in part be'coz o' this: We bought a gallon o' egg nog a couple few days ago, mos...

I don't know if this is real or a send-up of sumthin', anything. Very slim pickins at the usual source o' these things tod...

Wherein we ask Siri a question... Who'd a thunk it?

Well, now.  Don't THAT just beat all.  I dunno about you, Gentle Reader, but I'll take a Courtyard over an exercise yard, any ol...

The First Mrs. Pennington turns 70 today, a fact I find rather amazing.  "Amazing" in the sense the both of us have managed to li...

I dunno why but we are singularly uninspired o' late.  I have a few theories but none of 'em hold up very well under close examinat...

Big news today from that Milwaukee Mo'sickle Company... this: At the cigar bar?  But of course! Ooh!  And Ahhh!  I went on the...

First... My Buddy Ed In Florida sends the following along: Shopping A wife asks her husband, a software engineer, "Could you pleas...

I've never been much into coffee table books, what with The Album Cover Album bein' the last such book I purchased and that was ba...

Old heads and other aviation buffs remember Lockheed's SR-71 with great fondness.  That aircraft was unequaled where pure, absolute sp...

I'm really liking me some meTunes Radio.  It's come to pass that we've defined 12 stations on meTunes Radio as of this writing,...

Didja change yer clocks last night?  Well, I fell back this morning.  And kept falling, too... given the fact I didn't roll outta bed u...

Yup.  They listen to this kinda stuff* : Guys like this: Berserkeley, c. 2001  *Heard on XM while out and about today.

Saudi social commentary?  Hunh? There are over nine million views, too.  I'll be damned .