Four more losses to reflect on here in late October of 2026…
These guys were an actor and screenwriter who famously played Chekov in Star Trek; an actress who played in The Name of the Game, McMillan and Wife, and Kate and Allie; an actor who played Billy Batson in Shazam!; and an actor and director who was in M*A*S*H, Alien, The Dead Zone; Top Gun, Picket Fences and many more.
Donald Fagan’s hit from the Nightfly album.
“I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)” is a song written and performed by Donald Fagen and released in 1982 as the opening track and first single from his debut solo album, The Nightfly, following the breakup of his creative partnership with Walter Becker in Steely Dan. The title is an abbreviation for International Geophysical Year, the worldwide scientific project held from July 1957 through December 1958,
He accepts the sheriff’s job largely because of the salary, making it clear that he intends to leave soon because he’s on his way to Australia.
Support Your Local Sheriff! is a 1969 American Western comedy directed by Burt Kennedy and written and produced by William Bowers. James Garner stars as Jason McCullough, a wandering gunslinger who arrives in the rapidly growing Colorado mining town of Calendar and takes the job of sheriff primarily because it pays well. Joan Hackett plays Prudy Perkins, daughter of Mayor Olly Perkins, played by Harry Morgan, while Walter Brennan is Pa Danby, the patriarch of the notoriously troublesome Danby family.
Four more losses to reflect on here fall of 2026…
These folks played football for Kentucky and then center for the Atlanta Falcons for 18 years; was a movie/TV star best known for Animal House; was a co-founder for the R&B vocal group The Dells; and was a Country Hall of Fame singer/songwriter known for “Wild and Blue”, “Straight Tequila Night”, and the 1983 “Swingin'”.
Dog River is certainly small, but it is not presented as an idealized Mayberry-like community. The official description emphasizes that it is a town where everybody knows everybody else’s business, and the characters frequently interfere in one another’s lives.
Corner Gas is a Canadian sitcom created by comedian Brent Butt that became one of the most successful and recognizable television comedies in Canadian history. The series premiered on CTV on January 22, 2004, and ran for six seasons and 107 episodes, ending on April 13, 2009. Its setting was the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, a place described as being “40 kilometres from nowhere,” where very little seems to happen and the residents are perfectly capable of
This was the Power Pop beginning of what would become Maroon 5.
Kara’s Flowers was the Los Angeles band that became the starting point for what would eventually be Maroon 5, but musically the group was quite different from the polished pop-rock band that later became famous. The story began while the members were teenagers attending Brentwood School in Los Angeles.
This “Stand Out Single” became famous through the Warner Bros. musical film Gold Diggers of Broadway, in which guitarist and singer Nick Lucas performed the song.
Tiny Tim’s “Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me” / “Fill Your Heart” was released by Reprise Records as single 0679 on April 3, 1968. It paired a revival of a 1929 popular song with a brand-new composition by Biff Rose and Paul Williams. Both recordings appeared on Tiny Tim’s debut album, God Bless Tiny Tim, which was also released in 1968 and was produced by Richard Perry.
Its small size and apparently harmless appearance can obscure the fact that a slingshot is capable of causing serious injury.
A slingshot is a simple handheld projectile weapon consisting essentially of a forked frame, an elastic band or pair of bands, and a pouch or cradle for holding a projectile. Although the familiar modern slingshot is relatively recent, it belongs to a much older family of devices that use stored elastic energy to propel objects. Its simplicity has made it useful for recreation, hunting, pest control, competition, and, in some circumstances, warfare.
These are songs that contain the word “Guitar” in their lyrics.
“Dear Mr. Fantasy” is a 1967 song by Traffic, written by Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood, and it became one of the defining songs of the band’s psychedelic-rock period. It first appeared on Traffic’s debut album Mr. Fantasy in the United Kingdom, where it closes the original album’s first side, and on the American Heaven Is in Your Mind configuration.
The subject can be a puppet, clay figure, miniature, toy, paper cutout, model, or even a person.
Stop-motion animation is one of the oldest forms of animation and one of the most distinctive techniques in filmmaking. Its basic principle is simple: an animator photographs a physical object, moves it slightly, photographs it again, and repeats the process until the individual photographs create the illusion of continuous movement. The subject can be a puppet, clay figure, miniature, toy, paper cutout, model, or even a person. Although modern productions use digital cameras, computers, 3D printing, and sophisticated visual effects, the essential process remains the same as it was more than a century ago:
