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these are screenshots from a video i made with josh, my guitar student. currently we’re still editing & patching things together. neither of us play an instrument in this video, but when it’s finished you’ll see us talking about our shoes, how often we wear socks, and why josh thinks crocs are not cool.

so there’s this friend of mine that posts one picture from a movie every morning at 8am on his facebook page, and then he waits to see if anyone can identify it. usually someone beats me to it, but i was faster on the draw for these three. i was pretty proud of myself (and jenny was too) for naming these movies before anyone else did. there are no prizes, just the satisfaction that one gets from knowing a lot of useless information. by the way, the correct answers are: the fisher king, the hitcher, and running scared. can you match the movie title with the right number?

i usually make posts about marengo in the summer, when jenny’s relatives converge on the fairgrounds there like a well behaved biker gang– but this post is about our trip that we took a few days ago to attend a funeral in that little iowa town. there was ice and freezing drizzle in the forecast, and the weather channels were pouring fear into viewers like it was cheap gas. navigating a trip to marengo was like saying we choose to go to the moon! there was bad weather in oklahoma, missouri, and illinois… but we had dry roads there and back. holding family members, and sharing memories is something we shouldn’t be afraid to do because of a scary weather forecast… especially one that got weaker with each passing hour.

this morning i did a facebook search for mighty melt sandwich and spud shops, and found out they are still in sedalia, MO. jenny & i are definitely headed there on our next sunday drive. mighty melt was the first job i where i was paid to talk into a microphone. the extent of what i said back then was “number 5 your order is ready,” but i still managed to impress the ladies.

the pic above is NOT jeff hoover’s buick apollo– it doesn’t have to be. hoovie drove one of these cars in high school, and back then it made me think of my grandad’s chevy nova. hoovie always reminded me that his car was not a nova, it was a buick apollo, and then he would turn up ratt or def leppard on his stereo until our ears bled. i hadn’t thought of hoovie’s apollo for a long time until i heard this commercial from 1974.

jane, sara, and marylynn are my nieces. they stayed w/us for a few days after christmas, and wanted to experience as much of KC as possible. the pic above was taken at mickey’s surplus an hour before i had to drive them back home. in the span of four days and nights their adventures included:
-walking through the plaza lights
-ice skating for 3 hours straight
-riding the KC streetcar
-eating Insomnia Cookies
-laser tag, go karts, and multi-player pac man @ Power Play
-watching all 8 episodes of Stranger Things on netflix
-burgers and fries @ Fritz’ Railroad restaurant
i’m sure there are things i’ve left out.

one day last week i found an old show online that my sister and i used to listen to: CBS radio mystery theater! we discovered it in the mid 1970′s when our TV stopped working. there was an ad for a new “radio drama” on the back of the cereal box. we knew that our grandparents used to listen to these type of shows before TV was around, but we had never heard one before. this is the opening to one of the shows we both remember about a white wolf.i downloaded 1,399 CBS radio mystery theater shows and put 100 of them on an mp3 player as a christmas present for my sister. the pic above is jenny with our niece sara in her wolf costume that she tailored.

last friday it was cold, pedestrian traffic trickled, but i still brought the beeps to salon kitch. if i you think there was a small crowd that night… you’re right, it was just me and kitch. but that didn’t stop us from throwing caution to the wind, and jamming around the festivus pole!
“rockin’ around the festivus pole instead of a christmas tree,
later we’ll air some grievances
then we’ll boast our feats of strength!”
–sung to the tune of rockin’ around the christmas tree

we watched a christmas story with the frierdichs and janouscheks again this year! the first time i saw it was at the eastgate cinema in joplin. it was 1983, and i was a teenager. watching this movie is now an annual tradition that jenny & i have kept with two families since christy was a teenager (she’s one of the frierdich’s). these days she’s a mama that knows how to bake leg lamp cookies, and her son ben knows how to eat them… well… the top part anyway.

i just found a show called crap from the past. ron “boogiemonster” gerber has been hosting it every friday night since 1992! for the last 24 years he’s been playing really cool music, and really weird music. this track is a cool song by the police that gets weird in a hurry.