Could it be that I am slipping?  Scanning the FTV titles for the past ten months, I realized the entire year was about to pass without me writing about a drummer!  How could this be?  It …

       In one of the earlier segments of The Simpsons Tree House of Horrors, they do an extremely funny lampooning of The Shining (the Jack Nicholson version, only here called The Shinning).…

       We recently received a CD entitled Brewed In Buffalo by a guitar / organ / drum trio called Organ Fairchild.  I am betting the title might give you a hint as to where they hail from.…

       We begin our look at November with Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn.  Venus continues to dominate the SW sky at dusk.  With the period of twilight lengthening throughout the fall, Venus w…

       The crew at the West Coast Bureau sent me a copy of one of William L. Sullivan’s numerous books about hiking the great Oregonian out-of-doors.  To best describe Sullivan’s passio…

     In the 2017 movie, Kingsman:  The Golden Circle, Elton John plays himself, at least he does a spot on parody of the ‘Chicken Suit Elton John’.  I do not recall exactly if John had real…