Old big daily friends, new blogs to talk about

Earthriderdotcom is up from Florida this week. We’re part of this WordPress world that always comments on each other’s posts, so we’ve had a dinner planned for monnths. Just 90 minutes prior, as happens, comes a wrinkle. My cell rings at work, but I can’t pick it up. As I walk down the stairs one…

The Turtles are set for a noisy return, 23 years later

In 1991, a whole bunch of young Americans went ape for a bunch on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Word is that they’d like to go see the remake set for release come next month. But, of course, they might not like the changes that Michael Bay, he of the big and bad “Transformers,” is bringing…

A beautiful building, coming and going

The reaction to my lunchtime walk iPhone 4 photo tour through downtown Syracuse last week convinced me that you folks like a taste of what these blocks hold. This is the University Building, as in, built back in the early 1900s by Syracuse University. Now its 10 floors are used by numerous companies. Including the…

This time Good Neighbor Tim’s got the butterfly

By mid-July, I’d hoped to be able to proudly show you the purple blossoms on my most mature of butterfly bushes in the backyard garden of my dear wife Karen and I at our home in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Yes, I can, but not in the striking manner in years past. Here’s…

An electrifying round at Rogues Roost

Of course I had to get one more weekday round of golf in before the new job started. It came at a pretty course in Madison County by the name of Rogues Roost East. It’s built around towers that carry power lines that cross a handful of holes. On several greens, in fact, when you…

Universal wants their monsters to match

The folks at Universal know they have a lot of cha-ching in their monster movie closet. So they’re making a move they hope will make the most of it. Put on the job are the folks who’ve already tuned some cash register music with “Transformers” and “Fast and Furious.” First up with by “The Mummy,”…