Archive for January, 2012
Thor Tharp
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On this day 70 years ago, five years prior to the commencement of Operation Mogul, Odie and Carrie Tharp of Roswell, New Mexico (proper) welcomed a baby boy into the world and named him Thor Wayne. The name only stuck for an hour or so. After the couple came around [Read More]
Working Out
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Earlier this last week, I observed the physical behavior of one of my co-conspirators at the auxiliary office was pretty much best classified as a hitch in his get along. No kudos are really due to me for exhibiting a keen sense of observation though. He actually announced [Read More]
Monkeys, Knives, Super Heros, & Really Cool Pictures Lifted From The Internet
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I don’t really have anything of substantive value hidden in today’s entry. Yeah, yeah. I know. I rarely do. Recently at the auxiliary office, discussions happened within the conspiratorial gaggle in which I participate on a “per [Read More]
S.O.S.
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I send my SOS to the world I send my SOS to the world I hope that someone gets my I hope that someone gets my I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle If there’s one thing I don’t really miss about the 80′s, it would have to be The Police. [Read More]
Faith & The Impossible Chicken
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Hhmmmmmm. Where’s he going with this one? For some of you, the title pretty much sums it up. For others, not so much. I could go into an awe inspiring bit on how I’m of the belief that one of the most poignant, hard hitting sermons ever, was delivered by a [Read More]
My Weekend With Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg has a wife and what seems to be about nineteen or twenty kids holed up in a nice little old country style home planted somewhere in the middle of New England where the change in season is visible at every turn. It’s really quite an unassuming [Read More]
The GOP Rope-A-Dope
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Even though this is a four man race, the crop of contenders for the Republican nomination boils down to what I expect will be a bloody brawl between Newton and Mittens. In the past, South Carolina has served as a tie breaker for the winner of the Iowa Caucus and the New [Read More]
Comin’ Home
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Well, today is the day. As I reported to you last week, the TharpSter Pit Bull has been holed up in veterinary hell in order to extricate a whole load of pillow stuffing from her stomach and bowel. Now, after several days of recuperating, Hope is ready to come [Read More]
Cleaning The Iron Lady
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Tonight, after dining on a couple of six inch Subways, Wifey and I made our way to one of the swankier of the movie joints this town has to offer, and plopped ourselves down into the leather seated VIP theater to watch The Iron Lady. That’s right. TharpSter watched [Read More]
Losing The Edge
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Tonight I did something I haven’t done in quite a long time. You guessed it people. I watched David Letterman. Why I chose to do so is beyond me. Twenty five years ago I used to watch the man on NBC. I considered him brilliant. Time has obviously [Read More]
