Chuck’s Blog

“Midlife is when you get to the top of the ladder and find out it is leaning against the wrong wall.”
– Joseph Campbell

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cool, eh?

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Remember the long lists of musician jokes?  Here’s one.

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Waaaal…  Haven’t you been crazy too?  Let’s see, the son and his kids (2 + 4) have moved in with their dog…  I ran for and got elected to the Maine Legislature…  I had to polish the Beemer…  I have a new legislative blog going up over here…   So this site is for the more [...]

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10/27
 
Thanks as always to The PunMaster, his own bad self, for the video clips of the week:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TAZNEELEvk
 
Martin & Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we1uRWRuj80&feature=related
 
Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash - Blue Yodel No. 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqc209-rwNI
 
Deke Dickerson & Los Straitjackets - JACK THE RIPPER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUp1qH-DBd0
 
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Sungha Jung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR-zbr1bOI&feature=related
 
…But what I really want to know is was it the good acid [...]

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Bluegrass banjo-player Eddie Adcock continued playing so as to monitor
progress on his brain surgery:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm
 
 
This conjures up a whole new set of possibilities.
 
 
The Muppet Show - Man Smart, Critter Smarter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2cyUORitkU
 
Muppet Show - For What’s it’s Worth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0yCM5uhQU
 
Animal vs Buddy Rich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE8WTngaAY
 
Paul Simon on The Muppet Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMjC7cjN2s
 
Harry Belafonte on the Muppet Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AjovHGK-TA
 
John Cleese [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOpTAL50bl8

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Life;  it’s what gets in the way of better blogging.

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Um, sorry it’s been so long since I last poasted (sic).  I never really get a summer (workquirkwork), but then I get to really love the fall.  For me, that actually starts in mid August — when we get a spectacular run of breezy Nor’west days and the clearest air out of Canada — and [...]

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5/12/08
What a concept: TIME-SHARE the pets 
I consider it fairly well-established that I’m not always at the cutting-edge of culture, but I may be on to something here. 
 
It turns out that the wife and I have been time-sharing our cat for some time now.  Our neighbors are cat lovers.  They have four and a half [...]

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