A Hint of Train
The other day a large old-fashioned steam train was being pulled by a diesel on the track right in front of my house…. I couldn’t get to my camera in time! But yesterday, I heard them coming and I raced to get the train on video….with the great steam whistle blasting away!
Here goes….
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I ran out of space on the memory stick of the camera just before it hit the intersection and blew the mighty steam whistle! You can hear my annoyance at the end there! Ah, well….a bit of cinema verite for you all! At least you can see the train at the beginning of the clip…
Good Night and Good Morning
[Ron uses Barry White voice]
Good evening, y’all….having a nice Saturday? I thought I’d give you some Brothers Johnson for your Funk Needs….and then I thought ‘well, most folks will catch it on Sunday Morning’…..which is still cool, ’cause it’s good for that time also. Play this while making breakfast….
Whoosh!
As New York prepares for the biggest amount of blow since Studio 54, here’s hoping our blogmistress finds some isle of security from Hurricane Irene, complete with cats in tow!
Fingers — and eyes! — crossed!
The return of a classic
Ok, given the seriousness of Randys post I feel a little funny putting up this humorous one, but enjoy the joke on the Tigers Don Kelly for what it is.
All this blah blah blah…..I need a drink!
The Ambient KngFish bar is open… Old Fashioneds for everyone!
Lambchops
George and Gracie start and end this breaking the 4th wall and talking to us from 1929…
“A beard does not a philosopher make”
Cleaning up the old t-shirts, I forgot this one! The post title refers to the line on the bottom of the shirt. (Perhaps should be cross posted at Cloven, not Crested?) I think the other line means ‘No razor is sharper!’, but I could be wrong… The dude sort of looks like David Letterman!
Ok….here’s mine!
My mom, circa 1986….she passed away in 1990. That’s dad to the right, slightly out of frame.
Wait, I forgot a Fox!
For Amba that Chicago Icon, Nellie Fox….here shown with the Awesome Minnie Minoso.
Fox….Fox….Foxx….Ah!, Fox!
Let’s see….is this post about Megan Fox, Current Flavor of the Moment?….no….but, we know how the Internet gets hits, eh?
So is it maybe about 20th Century Fox? (no, chickelit, not The Doors song either!) Nope…
Well, Ron writes about baseball…maybe it’s about Jimmie Foxx, great player of the ’30’s? Nope, again….
Ah, it’s about THIS fox, the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel! Almost! It’s about his most famous campaign, the 3 year long war between Rommel’s Germans and their Italian allies versus, mainly, the British and their Commonwealth forces, and the subject of my most absurd game example of Board Game Gargantuaness, Campaign For North Africa. The Map!
5 connected maps, each 2×3 feet….The rules are 48 pages long….for The Land Game. You add the Air and Logistics Rules and that’s another 44 pages. Each side has about 24 pages of charts just for them, not to mention the 16 pages of Common Charts & Tables. But, hey, let’s look at that one shall we? “41.39 Mining Harbor by Plane Table” “58.5 Abstract Truck Loss Chart” “52.8 Poisoning and Sweetening Wells Table” Eyeball it yourself!
You keep track of the ammo, gas and water usage of every unit in the entire theater! You role for maintenance for every aircraft in North Africa! Needless to say, I can’t say this game gets “played.” But as a monument to folly, it’s hard to beat in boardgame history.
Let’s close by going back to foxes and let Bogey take us out!
Ambiance 