I was looking at at some information on the web the other day while I was at work (when I should have been working) and found a list of movies filmed all or in part in the Tacoma/Puget Sound area. I wish I had the list in front of me because now I forgot how [...]
From CNN: (CNN) — Ventures lead guitarist Bob Bogle, whose fretwork on such instrumental hits such as “Walk — Don’t Run” and “Hawaii Five-O” influenced countless bands, died Sunday in Vancouver, Washington. Bob Bogle (second from left) co-founded the Ventures, the highly influential instrumental band. He was 75. The cause was non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to [...]
…And remind everyone how absolutely lousy Seattle-Tacoma radio entertainment is. I just got back from attending one of my son’s wedding in Albuquerque last weekend. I had a cool radio in the hotel room. It was a Hyatt, after all. After listening to the stations there, I almost didn’t want to come back. Now, dig [...]
You cannot get a good ruben sandwich in Tacoma. This is disappointing and I can’t understand why this can’t be done. It is a simple recipe, which I won’t go into in detail, but it involves rye bread, sauerkraut, and corned beef. Today was the first day of the Memorial Weekend and the weather couldn’t have [...]
There are some everyday phrases that are commonly said in my neck of the woods. I can’t stand these phrases. I wish they were outlawed, every time someone uttered one of these blurbs they would be fined.
[MOOD: vengeful] A Pierce County judge today sentenced a Tacoma man convicted of helping his girlfriend steal credit card numbers from patrons of a downtown restaurant to four years, six months in prison. His defense attorney cried foul! The defense attorney and family protested the sentence handed down by Superior Court Judge John Hickman, saying [...]
