Just thinking about golf (as always) on this early-spring (late-winter here in Minnesota) day.
Month: March 2018
Meet the big dork of the Don Squad!
Forty-five nanoseconds of fame
Including: Oh, and was his face red! — and: It’s a small world (Especially Around Here Division)
Jim Fitzsimons of St. Paul: “Subject: Don Vogel, Chris Mars, and a big dork (that would be me).
“In the early- to mid-’90s, I was quite a fan of talk-radio personality Don Vogel. I used to listen to his afternoon drive-time show every day. Through listening to Don’s show, I learned that local artist/musician Chris Mars, the original drummer of critics’ darlings The Replacements, was also a member of the Don Squad. That’s what Don called his fans.
Here’s the latest “news” . . . and don’t you dare stop the presses!
The great comebacks
Monday email from The Doryman of Prescott, Wisconsin: “Subject: A firm grasp of the obvious.
Continue reading “Here’s the latest “news” . . . and don’t you dare stop the presses!”
Where have all the B. Boarders gone?
NOT complaining, mind you!
Just saying:
In the final everyday installment of Bulletin Board in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, on the 30th of October in 2016, we thanked a list of frequent contributors for their words and pictures, which had given us so much pleasure over the previous quarter-century.
It was a LONG list — and it didn’t come close to naming everyone it could have named. The newsprint Bulletin Board had thousands of contributors, over the years. Continue reading “Where have all the B. Boarders gone?”
R.I.P., Stephen Hawking.
In memoriam
A couple of days ago, we heard from Kathy S. of St Paul: “Subject: Stephen’s Spirit.
“Stephen Hawking died today.
“He said science explained everything without theology (i.e., a supreme being). We won’t know if he was right until we join him. My first thought, upon hearing he is now free of all gravity, is from John Gillespie Magee, Jr.: ‘I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth . . . and touched the face of God.’
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