The inspirational word this week on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “ghost”. Resurrection Mary is the Chicago area’s best-known ghost story. The story takes place outside Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Since the 1930s, several men driving northeast along Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection …
This week’s phrase of inspiration on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “I am…” The specific prompt on the website is “Can you sum up the whole of your being in just one word?” I am annoyed.
My wife (who I’ll call “Mrs. Pincus”) and I have had a running joke for 27 years. We met in February 1982 and had our first date soon after. Our conversation was always great. We found that we had so many common interests. The joke was that we would never ask each other: “So, what …
The inspirational word on inspiremethursday.com is “bamboo”. House of Bamboo (as recorded at various times by Earl Grant, Andy Williams and Southern Culture on the Skids) Number fifty-four/The house with the bamboo door/Bamboo roof and bamboo walls/They’ve even got a bamboo floor! You must get to know/Soho Joe/He runs an Expresso/Called the House of Bamboo. …
The following is a transcript of a recently discovered recording of a conversation from the command module of Apollo 11 on July 19, 1969. Michael Collins: Well, here we are, heading to the moon. Man, this is cool! Neil Armstrong: It sure is, Mike. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin: Hey, Mike…. um, you missed the meeting we …
The inspirational word on Inspire Me Thursday is “silver”. Long before Bob Denver, Fred Gwynne and Barry Williams were typecast in an acting role, there was Clayton Moore. Moore’s big break came in 1949, when George Trendle spotted him in “Ghost of Zorro”. As producer of the radio show and creator of “The Lone Ranger” …
This week’s word of inspiration on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “lace”. “Hell-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Bay-BEE!” Long before speaking those famous words, Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. was a disk jockey on Texas radio’s KTRM, where he hosted the “Dishwashers’ Serenade” show from 11 AM to 12:30 PM, Monday through Friday. Richardson changed to late afternoons and …
The inspirational word this week on Inspire Me Thursday is “fold”. “Friend? Some of your foldin’ money is come unstowed.” Delmar O’Donnell to George Nelson in O Brother, Where Are Thou?
The inspirational word on Inspire Me Thursday this week is “soup”. The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
Here’s an unusual suggestion for inspiration from the website Inspire Me Thursday “peeling paint”. So, it has inspired an unusual illustration. Even for me. When I was a kid in the early 1970s, TV stations showed a lot of public service announcements. Most of them were for causes that are outdated, like THIS ONE …
