[NOTE: I promised, in a post last week (Ricky and Sputnik?) that I’d start working on Ricky’s resume with him. Here’s what we’ve got so far. See what you think . . .]
PERSONAL
Date of Birth: May 8, 2003
Place of Birth: Templeton, MA
Sire: Saranan’s Gentle Ben
Dam: …
Last week a friend from Massachusetts sent me a cartoon, “Soviet Space Dogs — A Tribute to Canine Cosmonauts (by Scott Beale; see a portion of the cartoon at right). I had totally forgotten about that period during the 1950s and ’60s when the Russians used dogs for space flights, to see how it …
I’m not sure whether the brouhaha over the release of my 100 favorite rock and roll songs of all time
Demands a recount
triggered this, but lately my son Matt and his girlfriend, Lauren, have been playing their own …
Vacant since '03
Okay, just because I spent $240 yesterday on a new carbon paddle — two thirds the price I paid for the whole kayak a few years ago! — doesn’t mean I’m stupid. You won’t catch me shelling out…
A privileged dog
There’s a commercial I hear on sports talk radio — I think it’s for Goodyear Tires — in which one guy says to another guy something like, “Just because you use seatbelts on your dogs doesn’t make …