Entries from April 2007

April 29, 2007

Sleepy Sunday, Vol. 9

Yesterday was like Christmas for Packers fans, given the first day of the NFL draft.
Today is like Christmas for my dad. This is the weekend for the annual Titletown Train Show. He’s an old railroad man and still passionate about it all. At 81, he’s good from the knees up, not so good from the [...]

April 28, 2007

Green Bay is on the clock

Today has the feel of Christmas here in the shadow of Lambeau Field.
The Green Bay Packers, along with the other 31 teams in the NFL, get to unwrap their presents in the NFL draft.
My mission, should I decide to accept it, is to spend five hours watching the first round of the draft and posting [...]

April 27, 2007

Nights on Hudson Street

Today, we celebrate Janet’s birthday. We’ve been together for 28 years, married for almost 20 years.
We met when we were seniors at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, both journalism majors.
We had known each other for some time, then got together on March 9, 1979, a Friday night. Over the next two months, I spent plenty [...]

April 26, 2007

My oldies station does not want me

Well, maybe it would like me to listen. But it clearly does not want my opinion about the music it plays.
The other night, I received a call from a woman with a honeyed Southern accent, asking whether I’d be willing to attend a local gathering to help rate music. Sure, I said.
Then she asked what [...]

April 24, 2007

Reunited with old friends, Part II

Of the six tunes posted last week from the late summer of 1969, this one has been downloaded most often: “Don’t It Make You Want To Go Home?” by Joe South.
Good for you.
I always liked it, and I had it on a long-lost 45, but I didn’t have a digital copy until last year. Joe [...]