The guy who founded the Blog of Funny Names is battling brain cancer. So the roster of folks who think Dave Carlson is important to the world have fashioned a series of stories to let him and the big sphere that expands from his goodness just that. My turn comes today. My piece starts: Back…
With the eyes of the world getting ready to shift to Rio for the Summer Olympics, past performances in the games were a natural subject for my monthly contribution to the Blog of Funny Names. A good search of gold medal winners led me to the Chinese gymnastics team. The trampoline event, in fact, were…
In my monthly turn at the Blog of Funny Names, I turn my blueprint onto Ward Wellington Ward, the famous Syracuse architect who placed 26 of the homes he built around the Salt City in the early 1900s on the National Register of Historic Places. Yeah, these days they’d probably just call him Old Triple…
Ah, library aisles. Perfect for researching candidates for the Blog of Funny Names. Sonja Lyubomirsky? The author of The Myths of Happiness? You betcha. Especially when I turn over the book and find the first blurb on the back cover contributed by one Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi … To read the rest, click here.
Over at the Blog of Funny Names, I tackle paint this month. As in … OK, readers of the Blog of Funny Names, today we dip our sticks into the world of paint. Yes, I may have been around too many open cans while working in the paint department at the store. But I can’t…
As we prepare to flip our mental calendars to April, thoughts turn to the outdoors. Green grass, sprawling acres of it to walk, inhale deep into our souls, feel under our toes. Pardon me, allergy sufferers and/or big lawn cutters. I’m talking golf here. Because, I do. And I’m hoping to get out there on…
The NASCAR folks used to call his old man Wild Bill because of his fearlessness steering through right spaces. Later they called him Million Dollar Bill because he was so good beating everybody else to the finish line. But the most popular nickname for Bill Elliott was Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. Not a bad way…
How many of you have gained all of your knowledge about the big holiday Hoo-ha today from the movie? You know, Groundhog Day, the Lay’s Potato Chip of a flick starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell from 1993 that you couldn’t help but watch over and over again? Of course sometimes Hollywood (loosely) bases its…
My University of Maryland basketball team has a tough freshman in the middle this season. The young man making noise for my alma mater is Diamond Stone. Yes, that’s his real name. Precious, I think. Says the university media guide: “Father named him Diamond because a Diamond is the hardest rock on the planet ……
A movie about concussions is coming to a theater near you on Christmas Day. Will Smith figures that the subject is important enough that he hung his star on it. I’ve seen the trailers for Concussion on the big screen. I’m a football fan, have been my whole life. Yet I’ve become increasingly concerned about…
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