Quick:  Who was the first guitar player in The James Gang?  If you said Joe Walsh, join me at the back of the class because we were both wrong.  In fact, The James Gang wasn’t even Joe Wa…

      Spoiler alert:  I am a Mark Farner fan and like Homer Simpson professes in the Homerpalooza episode, I have a special spot in my heart for the, “Wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner…

    John Lennon loved ELO.  In 1974, he proclaimed that they were the “natural heirs to the Fab Four” which more or less fulfilled Jeff Lynne’s teenage fantasies generated as a Beatles fan …

Marquette’s new UFO landing strip is a good idea  (A Marquette Mining Journal editorial)     Just checking.  There is, of course, no UFO landing strip , and possibly no UFOs –  but that…

    We were playing Euchre after dinner one evening when I told everyone my tale of the ‘giant sandhill crane’ that I briefly thought might carry me off like a pterodactyl swooping down on a h…

    Near the end of our unusually mild February of 2016, our old NASA buddy Ralph emailed from southern Wisconsin that he and his daughter had seen some sandhill cranes.  We went back and forth a…