Happy Halloween

State Fair Photos

Mud - Dyna-mite

I am a big fan of Glam Rock.

Glam represents everything that was great about the 70's.

Little Kids love it.

Why Do I Like This?

I really don't know.

Milk Slurping

Welcome to "Today's Kids Got It Easy", where I discuss how much easier my kids have it than I did growing up in the 70's and 8o's.

When I was a kid I loved sugary breakfast cereal.

My kids love cereal also.

When I was a kid, after I had eaten all of my cereal (and then all of the marshmellows if it was Lucky Charms or a Monster cereal), I was always left with a half a bowl of sugary milk.

There is no way I was going to throw away all that good sugary milk, so I had to pick up the bowl, place my lips on the edge, tip up the bowl, and try to drink the sugary milk from the bowl.

Very awkward and messy.

Not today's kids.

These lazy little brats don't have to lift the bowl and never have sugar milk running down their neck.

1969 - Mahna Mahna

I was born in 1969.

I like to showcase 1969 on Turnipblog.

You may remember Mahna Mahna as the first ever segment on The Muppet Show, which debuted in 1976.

But, Mahna Mahna first appeared on Sesame Street and The Ed Sullivan show in 1969.

Best Album Contest

I love discovering new music.

I want Turnipblog readers to leave a comment telling me about the best music album or cd (whatever you want to call it) that you think I have never heard.

I will download the albums and write a review.

Whoever suggested the best album will win, something.

If you suggest an album that I have already heard - You lose.

Had to try it.

Have you ever walked into a store intending to purchase something, but then you saw something else that looked so good that you just had to try it?

Sometimes the opposite happens to me.

By that, I mean that sometimes I am in a store and see a product that looks so bad, that I can't resist trying it to see if it really is as awful as it looks.

Check out my latest impulse buy. When I saw it I thought, "It can't possibly be as bad as it looks

It is!

Ah! Leia!

This video explores the awkward relationship between Luke And Leia.

Crockpot Pork and Gravy

Super Easy! Super Good!

1. In the morning put a 1 to 3 lbs pork loin in the crock pot.

2. In a bowl, mix together a can of cream of mushroom soup, a can of golden mushroom soup, and a can of french onion soup.

3. Pour soups over pork.

4. Cook on low till ready to eat (meat will be tender, soups will make a yummy gravy).

5. Make some mashed potatoes (we use instant which takes about ten minutes)

6. Put mashed potatoes and some pork on each plate, top with gravy.

Tailgating Miracle

The night had disaster written all over it.

College football fans have but one college football game to choose from each Thursday night, the ESPN game.

This week the game was in Columbia SC where I live.

The Gamecocks were playing Kentucky, a team that the Gamecocks usually beat. But this year Kentucky was undefeated and ranked in the top 10 with a Heisman candidate quarterback.

The game kicked at 7:30 pm and we got to The Touchdown Zone at about 4:00 pm.

Leon and Kelly were in town from D.C. with their new baby. Jeff and Jessica were down from Boston. Even Chris Hill (the guy that talked us into buying the parking spot and now never shows up) was there.

We had planned to make Beaufort stew. I brought my cooker and most of the ingredients. Bart and Lindsay brought shrimp from Charleston, and Will brought sausage.

It was very overcast and there was an 80% chance of rain. Kentucky fans started showing up with "Believe The Hype" T-shirts. They honestly believed that they are now good at football.

It started to rain but we were able to light the cooker.

It started raining harder.

Was Kentucky really good?

Will started cutting sausage on the table. We had brought a really big knife with a point on the end. Sausage kept rolling off the cutting board and onto the dirty pavement.

It continued to rain.

Was Kentucky going to beat us on national television with everyone watching?

As a piece of sausage rolled off the cutting board, both Will and Bart reached for it at the same time. Iwas standing right there and watched Will stab Bart in the arm with the tip of the knife.

It continued to rain. Williams Brice looked like it may not be full.

Should I believe the Hype?

Things were looking terrible when a miracle happened.

A "Cockbow!"

Roots of Alt-Country - Byrds

I love discovering new music. I don't mean music that was recently recorded, I mean music that is new to me.

I like Alt-Country. In particular, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt, Jayhawks, Old 97's.

It is widely recognized that the band Uncle Tupelo started the Alt-country sound with their 1990 album "No Depression". Uncle Tupelo later split up with the members forming Wilco and Son Volt.

If you like alt-country then you might want to check out what was going on in the music scene in the late 1960's. I am going to help you.

If you have never heard The Byrds 1968 album "Sweethearts of the Rodeo", you need to.

Here is a video of the Byrds with Earl Scruggs covering a Bob Dylan song.