Tag: indiana
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Football Thoughts 9/22
I had written a couple of football-themed posts last week, but faced with finishing them up and posting them here, I just wasn’t feeling it. Perhaps it was because my beloved Steelers looked terrible over the first two weeks of the season, especially getting hammered by the hated Ravens in week 2–but I don’t so.…
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Sunday Morning Rumblings
I don’t have a particular topic in mind, and while it occurs to me that I could open up my links to news pages and scour the daily dose of mayhem, gloom, and marketing for the latest tragedy/outrage/scourge/feel-good moment of the day, so that I might feed my hungry inner commentator, I sometimes feel that…
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And In My Neighborhood: Man Kills Friend Over Plate of Food
This gun stuff seems to come in bursts, don’t you think? Like rounds from an AR-15 converted to fire on full auto. This suspected shooter clearly seems to have some mommy issues. http://www.indianagazette.com/news/police-courts/man-charged-in-killing,19943660/ You’ll also want to see the video–as the alleged shooter does a perp walk with his walker and oxygen. http://www.wtae.com/news/state-police-neighbor-fatally-shot-over-argument-in-indiana-county/26171764
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: The Clarks
I went to college with these guys at IUP back in the days before the days of yore–back when my hair was brown and The Coney was a little bitty hole in the wall along Carpenter Avenue in Indiana, PA. Scott Blasey’s voice still makes me think of beer in plastic cups, because they’d run…
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Jimmy Stewart & His Poetry on Shprockets : Best SNL Sketch Ever
Quite possibly the most gut-wrenchingest, funniest SNL skit of all time. If anyone has a copy of this video–which I’ve been unable to find–send me a link, drop me a line, let me know and I’ll be eternally grateful. Sprockets Announcer…..Phil Hartman Dieter…..Mike Myers Jimmy Stewart…..Dana Carvey [FADE IN on the “Sprockets” opening, with the…
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An Exhausting, But Damn Fine Weekend Part 1: Swimming District Championships
I don’t keep a diary or journal all that often–scrawled notes, here and there–of things I want to remember, but the majority of my life I’ve confined to the dark recesses of my increasingly lethargic memory. Occasionally, I take an exception and inflict the journaling on you, gentle readers. At the end of last week…
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On Dan Snyder, The Redskins, Free Speech and Flag Desecration
Wow! That’s a lot for one little article, eh? A few weeks ago, I posted on my support of the effort to encourage Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins NFL football team, to change it’s name. A similar post planted elsewhere on the web stirred up a dialogue with a fellow I know from…
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Remember The Poison Chemicals Dumped in West Virginia?
Remember the company that poisoned the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t–at the time, the media was a lot more focused on Justin Beiber’s throwing eggs at his neighbors’ house than at a clusterfuck some have called the worst man-made natural disaster in the past hundred…
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An Open Letter To Dan Snyder & The Redskins: Time To Rebrand
Not so many years ago, the NCAA forced my Alma Mater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania–located in the town of Indiana, PA–to abandon it’s historic nickname, mascot, and iconography as “The IUP Indians.” A lot of folks were resentful at the external pressure, a lot more were like me and just thought it was a big…
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Where I Live: Indiana, PA
Coming up on the beginning of the holiday season, our town kicks things off with the annual “It’s a Wonderful Night In Indiana, PA” light up festival–there will be a parade, the mayor will wave from his car, and the marching band playing Christmas songs; next up is a bonfire, hot cocoa and all sorts…
Old Road Apples 