Hey Mom, Look Where I Am Today

I get the singing Uncle Sams, and cars without their lids, But why the hell the Flintstones' car?  And what's 'Can Tabs 4 Kids...

A lot of stuff you might expect, like eagles and old wagons, Cavorting mid-pubescent girls, and...Chinese balloon dragons?

Vehicles of every kind, some homely, some much slicker And lots and lots of fire trucks (plus one that made us snicker)...

Soon the parade was underway with lots of flags and soldiers               (I wonder if it hurts their groins to put flags in those holder...

To day we saw the Big Parade that comes through Pittsfield town, And so we found a bit of shade and chairs and sat we down... The crowd...

This is the main living area of my little corner of the finely-appointed Yankee Suites here in Pittsfield. I spend most of my time here, if...

OK, Jo got Carol's computer to work with Skype with a minimum of difficulty. Cause, you know Jo, if it wasn't a minimum, it wouldn...

...and should be discussing more topical and local annoyances and whatnot in this space; but I am so pleased that they actually (for the fir...

Because of various and sundry reasons --mostly having to do with actors getting a cheap long-term hotel rate and therefore residing on the l...

...features many things you can depend on: like my nemesis...and traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike moving slower than corpuscles through Ru...

..mt view is becoming alarming. Actually, it's kind of nice like this.  In a paralyzed-with-fear-if-I-get-too-near-the-window kind of wa...

Ghostface Killah, the darker; and Mullah.  They are attracted to me because I am allergic to them.  Cats are like women: if you disdain them...

Maybe we should always have them put this on the marquis; it seemed to work. 

...my car has air-conditioning.  I'm too overcome with emotion to wax poetic. And I think I found an honest mechanic.  He basically had ...

All of the kids like corn. That's why we call them the Children of the Corn. Not really.  I mean, we really call them that, but not be...

OK, the American beats the Frenchman...pretty easy to tell who is who in this picture.  Final score:  five sets: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68; ...

I still play tennis from time to time and fondly recall my youth, when I would play 5 or even 6 sets in a day, being all full of youthful vi...

...since before LAST summer, the heat is particularly grueling.  This is the inner me, lusting for cold weather once more.

Here we see Nationals' fans behind bars, sentenced to yet another year of suckiness.   Been doin' Hard Time for a while.  Every time...

Remember, tell Mom that -for this one day- you get to be in charge. For a minute. Until you screw something up....

Some people will do anything to get 'on' TV.....

..is that the glass is half full. There are times when it is difficult to maintain that position...

Because right at this little curved wall here is where all the Jodie Foster impressin' went on back in March of '81.  Just in the ba...

...a question that never fails to arise is: what the hell is this giant metal statue-thing guarding the entrance? Seems like a pack of color...