Category Archives: Famous People

Gizmodo and Engadget

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Terry Taylor

In case you have grown tired of the endless things available on the web to distract you, I offer you two more: Gizmodo.com and Engadget.com (thank you again, Jeff). Now I can sleep even less because I’m up all night … Continue reading →

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Racing To Change

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Terry Taylor

When I was a kid in Montgomery, Alabama, my dad took me to the Montgomery International Speedway on Saturday nights to watch men like Donnie and Bobby Allison race Red Farmer and maybe some shade-tree mechanics from Prattville or Wetumpka … Continue reading →

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“It’s Toy Story meets Unforgiven!”

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Terry Taylor

We have seen the combinations for years. A new movie debuts and in an effort to wedge it firmly between our attention span and our wallet, the marketing people try to toss out two past blockbusters to describe their film … Continue reading →

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Cheese Grows On Trees?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I have always been a sucker for manufacturing processes and I am virtually hypnotized by watching how stuff is made. It seems there are more and more TV programs that cater to my Jones. Maybe it was started by Unwrapped … Continue reading →

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University of Johnny Carson

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Every night for an hour and a half I attended the university. I learned the best way to tell a joke and how to get rid of my hard Southern accent (or scrape as much of it off my tongue … Continue reading →

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Bizarre Foods

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Are you going to eat those fried toenails? He will.

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Stephen King Goes South

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Terry Taylor

In 1998, writer, Stephen King, became a part-time resident of the Florida Gulf Coast. Now he has set a novel there. Duma Key is Stephen King’s first Deep South novel. A writer friend of mine said, “If you think he … Continue reading →

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Dummies

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Jeff Dunham and Walter. You’ve seen them, surely. If not, Google them. YouTube them. Click your remote around Comedy Central and a few other channels. Jeff is the straight man, hand firmly up Walter’s keister, moving the dummy’s mouth without … Continue reading →

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Ridin’ With Jimmy and The Boss

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you haven’t read “Hammer of the Gods,” the seminal and raunchy history of Led Zeppelin by Stephen Davis, don’t worry, you have a couple of chances to get a close-up feel for the senior citizen gods of rock at … Continue reading →

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Profits After Death

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Go to the Pearly Gates, take a left, and there beside the guy with the harp on Cloud Nine, is St. Peter’s Investments, Inc. The First National Bank Of The Great Beyond is down to your right. Can’t miss it. … Continue reading →

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