Prog Rock Again: Stop Apologizing
Anybody remember this stuff? We explain how to beat a dead horse in 7/8 time.
Roughing It
Fidge defends his boring vacations.
Desperate Hobbies
Stamp collecting in the fast lane.
Progressive Country Meets The Phone Forest
Have you ever wondered what’s going through James Taylor’s mind while he’s performing “Fire and Rain” for the eleven-thousandth time?
Smile
Anybody remember the Beach Boys? Anybody? Fidge shamelessly rips off Gumby’s last topic.
Dog Food and the Aorist Infinitive
Sometimes when I’m in one of those Big Box stores I find myself in the company of what in polite circles are called Old People. (This happens frequently in stores with lots of mirrors.) I pause in front of a pharaoh’s tomb of something, 5000 boxes of dog food supplement for example, and ask myself…
The Love-Hate Relationship
Some people on the internet are upset about something. Gumby investigates.
The Traveling Salvation Seagull
How Neil Diamond and a marine scavenger created a new genre of pop music.
Bad Chymistrie
A friend of mine posted a meme on Facebook the other day that said this: Why do they call it ‘alternative medicine’ when it is the ‘original medicine’ that humans have been using for thousands of years? Chemical medications were discovered about a 100 years ago! That seems like a mild enough argument, though my friend…
Boom
I’ve been thinking about the hydrogen bomb. Did you know that a few years ago while flying across the country a nut popped loose somewhere in a B-52 and armed four warheads? They stayed armed until the boys reached the west coast and noticed a blinking light or something. Freaky interesting, huh? And a while…
Why My Super Ball Is Probably Still In Hong Kong
When I was a kid my mother, who loved to travel, would take advantage of TWA’s offer to break up the long flight to the States from Arabia with as many stops as you like, and for the same fare. (TWA doesn‘t have that policy anymore; indeed, they have no policy at all, having ceased…
Gumby & Fidge 