Night Music ~ Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man~ Hoedown

Saturday Matinee

Designtex Stories: At Home with Charley Harper from Designtex on Vimeo.

Night Music ~ Barcarolle - Anna Netrebko & Elina Garanca - Offenbach Barcarola

Found For Friday

Blonde calls the fire department and says her house is on fire... dispatcher says; okay, how do we get to your house?

Blonde says; You get in the big red truck!

Elvis Costello and Abba are going to tour together

but they haven't figured out who the headliner will be.

So watch for Abba and Costello to find out

Who's on First.

When I lost my job at the quarry,

you could say I hit rock bottom.

I took my retriever to the vet for some tests

and they charged me extra.

They told me I had to pay a lab fee.

Shady characters are often waiting

for their day in the sun.

I'm going to start working for a coffee company.

Of course I'll have to start on the ground floor.

I tried killing a cockroach in my hotel room

with their complimentary bottle of Axe Bodyspray.

Now his name is Brett and he won't stop talking about CrossFit.

In order to remodel our kitchen,

Kim looked at dozens of granite samples.

She really became part of the counter culture.

Moonlighting at stand-up comedy,

the baker was known for his rye humor.

100 years ago, everyone owned horses

and only the rich had cars.

Now, everyone owns cars and only

the rich own horses.

Oh, how the stables have turned.

I had to quit my job at the pin factory.

There was just no point to the job.

A baker stopped making donuts after he got tired of the hole thing.

The Invisible Man married an Invisible Woman.

The kids were nothing to look at, either.

I love taking pictures of myself standing next to boiling water.

The doctor says I’ve got selfie steam issues.

Night Music ~ "Mystery of Love"

Throwback Thursday

image courtesy of Dennis Wendell

Nick Nolte is pictured in the dark sweater, back row left.
Jay Simser is in the third row, looking directly at the camera.
Dennis Wendell is in the front row, far right.

This was written by Jay Simser.

The school I attended was Beardshear Elementary School.  It was a giant of a building (to me) and you either went upstairs or downstairs when you first came in.  A classmate at the time was a lad named Nick Nolte.

One of the things I learned from Nick was how to get around parents.  I would tell my mother that I was going to Dennis Wendell’s (another classmate) house to play.  Dennis told his mother he was going to my house.  I don’t think Nick had to tell anyone where he was going.  We had a grand time in the pine forest on 13th Street building a fort.  That is until I looked across the way and saw my grandfather’s car parked on the street and my grandfather striding across the field coming to take me home.

I don’t remember any punishment for this episode, but I also don’t remember ever doing it again.  Nick went on to a career in the movies and is a terrific actor.  I am a fan.  I was also a fan of his mother, Helen, and remember her as a really glamorous lady, tall, pretty, if not beautiful, who wore floor length quilted satin robes.  Since my mother preferred short duster type robes, Mrs. Nolte seemed exotic indeed.  She moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and I used to call her and visit when I went through on a trip.  I followed Nick’s career before he hit it big through her updates.  She predicted "He is going to be a star someday."  That prediction proved all too true.

This is from Neal Tarman, and is in the Ames Historical Society.

From left: Jay Simser, Nick Nolte, Dennis Wendell, Neal Tarman, Cecil Anderson,
 Larry D. Jones