The Onion Visits Concordia

The Onion comes through again. I link this only because of the dozens of times I've driven through Concordia over the years. There's a 66 station there that used to have a female employee with a cultivated mustache. I'm not making that up.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-water-tower-celebrates-50th-year-as-reposito,17958/

My Trip to Springfield

Quick trip to Springfield to watch Mike Montgomery pitch for NW Arkansas vs. Springfield. Easy three hours down there. All credit to the EconoLodge for upgrading me to a better room-the faucet in my first room disintegrated when I first used it. We got the water turned off-and there was a lot of it-and they immediately got me a better room. Very friendly and helpful staff. Some decent donuts and OJ as part of the free breakfast.

While in line to buy a ticket, a nice guy gave me a free pass. I think he's a season ticket holder and this was a thank you gift from management from last season. Saved me a few bucks, which is always nice. Nice staff also. However, their concession prices are what the Chiefs charge here. Too much for the minors. And they need to get rid of all the distractions. Trivia questions while the game's going? Really?

A good trip-aided on the way back by stopping at an orchard near Osceola and buying a whole bunch of peaches and pears right off the trees.

Good for the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2010/08/bbc-genome-the-complete-broadc.shtml

An actual reason to use this picture ... BBC rehearsal in 1934. For odd people like me, who like to listen to odd things on the mp3 player, it's been frustrating in the past to learn of a BBC radio program that I'd like to hear but can't because it's already been taken down. There is the torrent site radioarchive.cc that has some of it and a few Usenet groups, but nowhere that would have everything. Now the BBC intends to digitize their entire archive and make it available for listening anytime. Fabulous.

Bad Times at the Wall Street Journal

For the last two weeks, my Saturday WSJ has included a coupon supplement. I'm used to the occasional insert for some expensive car or a symphony located hundreds of miles from my home. But not this week's coupons for Steak & Shake.

Must not be going well for Murdoch. I'm sure the descendants of the founders who sold out must be so very proud.

Another Good Book

Not everything is a rant. Also endorsed, "Me, the Mob, and the Music" by Tommy James, written without the Shondells. Fairly short, entertaining story of how the music biz worked in the 60s. Lots of material about the mobbed-up label owner Morris Levy.

Remaking True Grit Sucks

An ancestor of mine, expressing her disapproval from the Great Beyond at the news some lame Hollywood studio is so bereft of ideas that they thought it was a clever idea to remake True Grit.

Fie upon all those involved.

Tokyo Vice is Very Good

I've been doing some serious catching up on my reading list. This was so good that I went through it in less than two days. I'm not doing affiliate linking or whatever here, so go get yerself a copy at the outlet of yer choice.

Not everything sucks this week.