Archive for December, 2004

Coolest Station ID Ever

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

While driving home from the mountains today I heard what has to be the coolest radio station ID ever. Roughly: DJ: You’re listening to rass [WRAS], the only non-commercial station in Atlanta with a 100,000 watt transmitter… (Voice): …which we have packed full of illegal substances! And then it drops into a pile of Aqua Teen […]

Lyman Darling Warner, Age 6 Mos., 1906

Monday, December 27th, 2004

  One of the most fascinating Christmas gifts received by the family this year was a photo album, given to my mother by her cousin Patty. There are dozens of photographs inside, most pages labeled with stylized writing (”Otsego” - I want that font!). This is my six month old great uncle, Lyman […]

Happy Christmas

Saturday, December 25th, 2004

  Bob Bosma’s Georgia Rock Railroad Trains and Christmas are just one of those things that go together… for me, anyway. Happy Christmas, everybuddy.

Go Blog it on the Mountain…

Friday, December 24th, 2004

I’m up at my folks’ mountain place for Christmas through Tuesday. Tonight I rolled in on the gravel driveway about an hour and a half later than intended. ’twas good to be here at last, though, with work miles behind me. If I’m reading my dad’s weather station display properly, it’s 33 […]

He Has Landed

Monday, December 20th, 2004

I’ve been wanting to bring you this image for quite some time now. Another home in my neighborhood. It’s special because it’s the site of a baby Jesus landing, to paraphrase Bob Bosma. Neighborhoods across the U.S. experience thousands of baby Jesus landings each December. One wonders if they rent a storage garage […]