Reflections on music, movies, TV, sports, American History, and other stuff.

MAG"S HAM BUN BUNCH AND THE SCOTTSDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT Hi Everyone, The September issues of IMAGES AZ magazine are now availab...

Hi Everyone, The August issue of IMAGES AZ magazine for north Scottsdale Cave Creek, Carefree, Grayhawk is being mailed to local homes and...

Hi Everyone, The latest issue of Images AZ   magazine is now available online for those who do not receive it in the mail. I have a stor...

Hi Everyone, The June edition of  Images  is being mailed this week or you can read it online. This month I have written three sto...

I have been doing stories for Images magazine for the last few months.  Here is the latest edition (May, 2014).  I have four stories this ...

                                              The daughter of Orson Welles lives in Sedona.  Her name is Beatrice, she is 59 years old, and...

Is it me or is the word “awesome” becoming the most overused word in the English language?  Everything seems to be “awesome!”  these days. ...

                              Has anyone seen this?  I copied it from Walt Armour's site on                                  Google+...

LAST DRINKS WITH W.C. FIELDS' 'NEPHEW' by Rip Rense ( Originally published in the Los Angeles Times ) "In youth I ...

Fifteen individual musicians or groups that I liked who I wish were still popular and/or still alive:  Roy Orbison, James Brown, Chicago,...

Edd "Kookie"  Byrnes (c. 1959) Of "77 Sunset Strip," ABC-TV hit from 1958-1964.  Cooool!                              ...

Anne Hillerman takes over for father Tony with "Spider Woman's Daughter" Cruisin’ and perusin’ on a January afternoon i...

Comical headline of the week ending December 6:  “U. S. Unemployment Hits 5 Year Low.”  Obama’s poll numbers are tanking and he just won th...

On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941–a date which will live in infam...

Merry Christmas from the Obama Economy. (left) Are school officials wimps?  Maybe not in today’s vocabulary but calling off the high sc...

Some people like Barack Obama consider themselves geniuses.  Maybe he is a genius if we count the facts that he has never had to produce a ...

(I wrote this for my column  in  a local paper in November of 2005.  I think it is still appropriate for Veteran's Day, 2013) Can y...

Most of the liberal crowd will stick to Obama’s coattails regardless of how much he screws up this once great country.  We all know the loc...

Bill Goodykoontz, the movie reviewer for the Arizona Republic, recently listed what he considers to be the best thriller films ever made. ...

A friend from Pennsylvania on Google+ posted this the other day and I liked it so much I want to pass it on. My normal blogs are about 500 w...