I won!

Should arrive by next Monday...

Manly footwear.

For less than the cost of re-soling an existing pair.

Don't box me in...

ComKev posted some 'tacticool' glasses recently, promoted by a reality show 'personality'. I saw these recently at the Wally-Warehouse Club store, but didn't buy them.

• Actually, I suppose these are more 'safety' glasses than sunglasses, but whatevs, right? At about $12-13 for the bunch, it was probably a ppretty good deal. I'd like to shoot clays with the yellow lenses.
• Hey, idiot,what are you lookin' at? Use the other camera...

 

"Where's that stupid selector button again?"

• I was going to post a snarky question, wondering whether there was a professional trampoline league. Then I googled it. Turns out, there kinda is. 

 

• If you grew up in FW/D in the '60s and '70s. you undoubtedly viewed hundreds of commercials from Sidlinger Trampolines. I believe they were out in Garland, but possibly had other metro locations. In those days, it seems most of the trampolines were rectangular. We didn't have one, but I enjoyed many an hour on those of friends. There was a guy around the corner who had a round one that was submerged into the ground, with just a slight berm around it. He let us kids have access whenever we wanted. Funny, I don't recall him having a wife or kids, but I never heard any untoward stories or rumors, nor do I recall any interaction with us kids.
• When these go on clearance, I'm getting one:

•  Ditto:

 

•  I don't think the Colt book was written by a real gun guy - at least that was my impression from reading the inner dust jacket. But it looked like it could still be interesting. I had forgotten that Samuel had died a relatively young man, at 47, eleven years before the release of the Single Action Army model of 1873, which starred in countless Western movies and TV shows. I doubt it will happen, but I would love to own a Paterson replica - historical significance because it launched the Colt's Manufacturing, and because the major contract was for the Republic of Texas Navy (1836) - as well as a Colt Walker - a brute of a revolver meant to ride on the pommel of a saddle, and widely considered (albeit with some exceptions) the most powerful handgun from 1847 until the advent of the .357 S&W Magnum in 1935.
• Moving right along to another big-box store, I need to get these - if for no other reason than voting someone off the island:

•   Having some fun with a clip-on fisheye lens for my phone:

 

•  Seen on this evening's bike ride. No fisheye, though he may have just dined on fish:

 

•  OK, I'm nearly an hour past my budgeted time for this post, and have to wake up early to bid on some Western boots on Ebay...

Hoist with her own petard

A gal in Michigan thought it would be a swell idea to torch her boyfriend's vehicle.

Her plan - if you could call it that - went rather awry.

Poetic justice.

Some believed in the five...

I noticed there were a lot of fireflies on my bike ride last evening.

Trivia (10/3/20 edit): The line "Long distance winners/Will we survive the flight", is a self-homage to Stevie's song Long Distance Winner, featured on the pre-FM album Buckingham Nicks.

Mmmm, it's summertime

I never could've written this song.  '71 Opel just doesn't have the right ring to it...and a moment of indecision had cost me the opportunity in my '68 Chrysler.

I think you'd understand

Once upon a time, and gone way too soon.



But it didn't have to be that way.

About a week ago, on a late evening bike ride, I came upon an intersection. An approaching pickup or SUV had open windows, and loud music playing. I braced myself for an onslaught of rap or death metal, only to find as it got near, that it was I Got A Name.

Some people still have good taste.

Please, God, hold my hand...

Another from Linda's bicentennial tour in Offenbach, Deutschland.



Piano accompaniment and harmony vocal by the great, late Andrew Gold.

I saw LR in Dallas about three weeks later. Leo (Long Tall Glasses) Sayer opened the show, and if I recall correctly, Andrew did a a couple solo songs before Linda came out. I think TommyBoy was also at that show, perhaps he remembers if this is correct?