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In honor of Fall creeping around these parts, I made a smoked chicken casserole which we will be eating tonite.

"Hallucinations" by O. Sachs. I had to skip the part about migraines and auras. I had those as a kid, bad memories. I liked the info on hypnagogic hallucinations. I get those quite often but since they are so mild, I never really gave them much thought. Its a crazy world!

"Three Years with the 92nd Illinois-The Civil War Diary of John M. King". Surprisingly well written, lots of details of what it was like to be an Union grunt soldier.

I still have giant and awesome speakers in the house too. I hope to never have to get rid of those.

When working, I don't listen to music. When not working, I use the home stereo system for vinyl and CDs and/or the various iPod player devices we have scattered about the house. I'll also use the radio to listen to the Steve Dahl show if I happen to be in the car on weekday afternoons.

Headhunter.

I WILL be seeing The Giving Tree Band on Friday night though...........on their home turf in bucolic Yorkville IL. So there's that.

No really, I just found out about it today. Not sure how I missed this news. One of the down falls of sobriety perhaps?

The Meat Puppets are playing this Saturday at the HVAC Club in Chicago. I, sadly, will not be attending due to a prior commitment.

Poon, if its girls you wanna read about, get Gone Girl. Thank me when you're done.

After months of checking Milkweed leaves, today I finally located a Monarch caterpillar.

Today my dog supplemented her nutritional intake by eating a mouse that she caught in the prairie. She also snacked on some dirt.

Oh yeah......Howard Hessman's haircut! What a hoot! His bad hair preceded the Spinal Tap guys. That was a laugh out loud moment for me.

The best Woodrell book I've read besides "Winters Bone" is "Woe To Live On". Civil war setting, crazy stuff.

I did do some reading on Tom after finishing the Offerman book. Interesting guy with quite the "gumption" as Nick would say. Certainly admirable in that respect.

I recently read Nick Offerman's "Gumption" in which he extolled the virtues of the early 1970s counterculture cult classic "Billy Jack". Since I had somehow never seen that and I kinda like Nick's outlook on life, I put that film on my mental list. Last night after work and walking the dog, food shopping and hopefully destroying a yellow jacket nest that took residence in my roof, I plopped down and flicked on the boobtube to see that "Billy Jack" had just started. I settled in and two hours or so later I turned the TV off, appalled by the laughable travesty I had just endured. I'm not sure wh

Today, I am looking forward to seeing the Giving Tree Band tomorrow evening on the northwest side of Chicago and on Saturday at VeggieFest. I haven't seen them since last September. Oh yeah, Perseid meteor shower is tonight. I've seen a handful over the last few nights but tonight is the really big show!

I hope Trump wins the nomination because it will ensure another Democrat president will be in office for four more years.

Well, I guess Mayer isn't a complete tool after all. He's really thrown himself into the GD canon. Interesting.

Good Morning Lil' Schoolgirl--->Your Body is a Wonderland

Yeah, that's a great show. Hopkins in an interview said he had no recollection of the short period he was playing with JGB. Btw, that disc is selling for $145+ on Amazon

"The Misfit Economy" by A. Clay and K. Phillips

The Mockingbird makes a beautiful bird song.

Despite some fairly large plot holes, I thought "Wayward Pines" was pretty damn good. The finale last night really had me going.

Was listening to Brent's last show, 7-23-90, last night. Man oh man, he is on fire! I was at those shows and do recall most of those times but "Good Time Blues" was off the hook.