R.I.P., Richard Widmark

I just learned from Laughing Gravy that Richard Widmark has passed on at the age of 93, according to CNN. Well, this day is already turning out to be a real pisser. I'll update this when I get more info.

Back from hiatus

Gosh, it seems like weeks have passed since I updated the ol’ blog…and as it turns out, it has been—two, to be precise. I apologize for being so negligent, but it’s been a veritable hive of activity around here. To start off, the house has now been officially listed as up for sale. (The curious…

“It would sure do me good/to do you good/let me help…”

Yesterday, I prepared all the items sold in my recent eBay auction so that they could be shipped today, and also arranged for the postal carrier to pick them up at my front door because…well, I don’t want to go another ten rounds with my evil nemesis Smock Lady—because I might end up doing something I’ll…

Shotgun boogie

As many of my fellow insomniacs will attest, sometimes it’s not easy falling asleep at night. That’s why this portable DVD player I received for one of my natal anniversaries sometime back is a godsend, because what I like to do is grab, say, a disc from one of the Mill Creek 150 Western or Detective collections and stick…

Ivan vs. the Post Office, Round 2

I apologize for neglecting the blog as of late, but I’ve sort of been up to my eyeballs with Operation: Clutter here at Rancho Yesteryear, and either I don’t have the time to sit down to write meaningless prather or the energy. Mostly the latter, I suppose. I had an encounter with my arch-nemesis, Smock…