I think the squirrels will be up in the air this winter

Back when I last changed my header photo two seasons ago, my friend Bill of Evil Squirrel’s Nest shouted that he saw one up a tree. A squirrel’s nest, that is. In a tree. In a photograph. In my blog header. Anyway, that’s obviously stuck in my head because walking Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle…

Nano Poblano: Now it’s time to send in your guesses for Blog Hop II The Name Game

Time to take your best guesses at Blog Hop II The Name Game, Nano Poblano. I told you there would be prizes come the end of November. All you have to do to play is read the entries of those who wrote and guess if each story was true or made up. Here’s the list…

I finally woke up from those triptowhatevers

The turkey and fixings sure were fine yesterday. The company was finer. Thanks was given for the opportunity to sit down at the unfolded portable table in kitchen of the house my dear wife Karen and I call The Little Bitty and enjoy the company of Daryl, Elisabeth and George for the holiday. You know…

There are free tickets, and there are FREE TICKETS

My dear wife Karen texted me a little past noon Tuesday. “SU BB tonight?” I knew the code. Tickets for the Syracuse Orange’s game against Loyola in the Carrier Dome were being offered at Syracuse Media Group? Fast as I could I answered “Tix for us, yes.” And received back “Sec 122 seats 11 and…

After watching ‘Selma,’ reviewer hears about Ferguson verdict

There are a lot of folks in Ferguson, Mo., who aren’t likely having a quiet and peaceful Thanksgiving today. The city outside of St. Louis has been in turmoil since Monday night, as the world knows, since it was announced that a grand jury did not charge the policeman who killed teenager Michael Brown. Protesters…

Keep your head high and your eyes wide

Snow kisses my backyard in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood as we stir on this Thanksgiving morn. It covers the ground and the shed, and hangs on the boughs of those towering pines in the neighbor’s house behind. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle welcomes the sight and the feel of it. She’s ready for…

Beth pays off Wolverine wager with her unusual voice

I have to hand it to Beth. For somebody who calls her blog I Didn’t Have My Glasses On, she has extremely sharp focus. Beth is a graduate of the University of Michigan. My alma mater is the University of Maryland. So when My Terrapins moved to the Big Ten to join her Wolverines for…

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,…