I’ve been on a bit of a Scorpions kick lately. Underrated band.
Scorpions have launched a new documentary series focusing on the making of their new album “Rock Believer” (out February 25). You can watch the first episode below. The band commented:
“For our new album ‘Rock Believer’, we all came back together in the studio like in the old days and captured that journey on camera. Today we release the first part 1 of 3. Maybe you discover some unreleased music snippets from our new album in it…”
In the summer of 1777, the British launched what became known as the Saratoga campaign, an effort to gain control over the Hudson River valley. A large corps under General John Burgoyne moved south from Quebec toward Albany. Another body of troops led by Brigadier General Barry St. Leger was supposed to advance toward Albany from the west, from Lake Ontario.
St. Leger’s force was made up of 200 British regulars, a contingent of Provincials and Canadians, as many as 1,000 Native Americans, and around one hundred Hanau Jäger. The Jäger were commanded by Lieutenant Philipp Jakob Hildebrandt, a forty-three year old married father of three who had spent more than two decades in the service of Denmark, Hessen-Kassel, and Hessen-Homburg before joining the Hanau corps in 1777. The Jäger had been in Quebec for around two weeks when Hildebrandt and his company received orders in late June to join…
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I don’t plan on running for president anytime soon. However, if I did, and was elected, things would be a whole lot different around here. This post is not meant to get into anything political AT ALL, rather, it’s a way for me to blow off a little steam regarding a bunch of things people say WAY TOO MUCH that drive me crazy. As there are approximately eight gazillion things that bother me, I will share a partial list, say, every Thursday.
So, without further ado, here is my list of catch words, sayings, and phrases that will be OUTLAWED or simply GONE, should I ever become president. A word of caution, you most likely use one or many of these………
Special Edition: Holiday Sayings and Phrases:
Bah humbug
Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. Nobody ever says bah humbug until December 15, when everyone says it. If you don’t use this phrase in June, you shouldn’t use it in December.
Scrooge
Same as bah humbug. Whenever someone is grumpy in December, they’re referred to as a Scrooge. In June, they’re an as@&ole.”
Grinch
See above.
Festivus
Seinfeld was a great show, but the Festivus episode was a quarter century ago. It is no longer funny (and hasn’t been since around 2000) to wish everyone a Happy Festivus or talk about the airing of grievances or feats of strength. Now, if someone makes the effort to bring an aluminum pole to the office, I’ll listen.
Coal in stocking
Why coal? Why not threaten someone who is naughty with something far worse than coal? How about a pile of goat crap?
Happy New Year
You’ll start hearing this one any day now. They’ll all wish you a Happy New Year. My question is, how far into the new year do we get before it’s no longer considered new? January 15? Do I get to be happy for 14 days and then I’m on my own? I say to all of you, “Happy All Year.”
Nothing says Christmas like good old sugar cookies!
The definition of a cookie is as follows: a small, sweet cake, typically round and flat and having a crisp or chewy texture. That pretty much sums up my Grandmas’ sugar cookies. The sugar cookies I am talking about have many different names but in our family, the official name is; Grandmas’ Sugar Cookies.
My two grandmas could not be more different than if they tried. My Mom’s mom was Irish, tall, and strong as an ox from her many years of working as a butcher. She grew up with six brothers, she being the baby of the family and only girl. She wore her black wavy hair short with curls at the temples, which I often see in the mirror. Her daily attire was a patterned blouse with a jean skirt and wide, black, women’s work shoes. Once in her golden years, when Grandpa was sick and needed to…
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What is it about a song
That brings me back 30 years
To a time much simplier
Yet uniquely profound
What makes it so powerful
That I ache for her
Someone who barely registers on my conscious
At almost any other time
How can something so simple as a song
Pummel the emotion right out of me
In the opening scene of Guillermo del Toro’s new film “Nightmare Alley” we watch a man dragging a dead body, tightly wrapped in a bed sheet, across the dusty floor of a remote ramshackle farm house. He strikes a match and sets the place ablaze. The man makes his way to a bus station where, once onboard, he lowers his floppy brimmed fedora over his tired heavy eyes and falls asleep, only waking up when the bus reaches the proverbial “end of the line”. In many ways that opening sequence encapsulates del Toro’s latest effort.
As you would expect from a del Toro film, “Nightmare Alley” is a visual feast, anchored by Tamara Deverell’s sparkling production design that transports you back to the late 1930s and early 40s. It also brings together a stellar cast that includes Bradley…
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