They play hockey in the Carrier Dome, and 30,715 show up

I’ve got season tickets to Syracuse University football in the Carrier Dome, and it was not a good season. One win, in double-overtime in the season opener against Football Championship Series Subdivision foe Villanova, and then five straight bone-numbing losses to rob fans of any sense of spirit. Maryland (OK, the win for my alma…

Syracuse’s best will be honored on March 5, 6

The Syracuse Area Music Awards will present its Hall of Fame inductions on March 5 at Upstairs at the Dinosaur and annual awards ceremony March 6 at the Palace Theatre on James Street. Performers for the ceremony will include Joanne Shenandoah, who’s a member of the Sammys Hall of Fame and a Grammy Award winner;…

Here comes Mick Fury from Nashville for a Thanksgiving week release

You can take the musician out of Syracuse, but you can’t take the Syracuse out of the musician. Mick Fury and his mates in the party country band Midnight Moonshine packed their bags this summer and moved from Central New York to Nashville. And why not? With Fury’s hard-working style and all of their talent,…

You can sit it in halfway hungry and fill up

I saw the first part of “The Hunger Games” series a year after the fact, on NetFlix. Not on my iPad or phone, thankfully. I watched the blockbuster hit on my living room flat screen. Still, the dystopian story didn’t really win my over. I didn’t gush, and I didn’t rush out to see part…

Norman Lear startles me on David Letterman

I stayed up later than usual Friday night and caught Norman Lear chatting with David Letterman on CBS. Man, he looked old. Letterman, not Lear. No, the guest in the porkpie hat look positively dapper as he discussed the the period of TV in which he was the undisputed leader in cutting edge comedy. “All…

One last burst of energy for The Head, Captain Poblano

The Head gets around. Wormy couldn’t help putting her Captain Poblano version into a peculiar predicament in Brasov, coupled with The Head itself. Her words that accompany the work of her photo-tinkering talent are a Nano Poblano fairytale indeed. Please click the link above and marvel. Blogger Rachel Carrera, meanwhile, made sure to relocate The…

Hey, Geek Squad, give Linda G. a new laptop

I think Linda G. Hill deserves a brand new laptop from her local Geek Squad. Do you want to become part of a grand blogging/social media experiment with me today? Reblog. Share. See how far we can get this statement out, out, out. Here’s the back story, as I was reminded by Nano Poblano teammate…

Guest Photo Post for Robin O. Cochran

Robin O. Cochran writes her blog with a folksy touch from Delaware County, Ohio, finding funnies to share on the Internet. As a mom and grandmom, you can tell she wants to make the world smile. She discovers worthwhile historical dates and important people to point out every month, because as a former teacher, you…

Update

Originally posted on silentlyheardonce:
I’m on my tablet. I hope this message goes through. Well I can say I’m a cancer survivor. I had stage 1 lymphoma . I probably spelled it wrong it was lung cancer. Doc said I was cure. The lympnodes were negative. I have to have a CT scan every 4…

Please Keep The Prayers And Thoughts Coming

Originally posted on Creating Heaven On Earth:
[This picture was taken from my eating room window, from the sill itself to try to express to you how deep this snow is. This photo really does not convey the huge amount of snow you are looking at that stands well over the sill of my window.]…