“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” When Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter, and Bob Weir – otherwise known as the Grateful Dead – wrote those words 52 years ago, they perfectly described America’s tumultuous journey through the 1960s. The Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, the Kennedy and King assassinations, the …
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Nineteen kiddos aren’t being jostled out of bed this morning. They aren’t rubbing their eyes, complaining for just a few more minutes of sleep. They aren’t grumbling as they stumble into the bathroom. Nineteen kiddos aren’t getting dressed this morning. They aren’t leaving their pajamas in the middle of the bedroom floor for someone else …
The atmosphere weighed on me when I got out of bed this morning. I tried to clear my head again and again, but no amount of coffee, fresh air, or work could get rid of that feeling. Like something bad was going to happen, or maybe I had a bad memory picking at the already-tattered …
In the Top Ten: Secretly by Jimmie Rodgers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsf5Zek4IWs On the Bestseller List: All About Men by Joseph H. Peck, M.D. Photo credit: amazon.com New In Theaters: How to Make a Monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JKlDCs1Fk New In Comic Shops: Detective Comics #257 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: What’s My Line? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-oxzvk0Hrk Magazine Roulette: Popular Science Photo credit: …
In the Top Ten: The Freshmen by The Verve Pipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1umEXpGHc0E On the Bestseller List: London by Edward Rutherfurd Photo credit: amazon.com New In Theaters: Out to Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnf--nARR5E New In Comic Shops: Deadpool -1 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: Moloney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIjE6oLfhg8 Magazine Roulette: Rolling Stone Photo credit: amazon.com Zodiac/Horoscope: Click here Photo credit: thehoroscope.co …
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