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Lindbloom’s View: Sic ‘Em Bicks
“Sic em Bicks!” Ain’t but three things in this life worth a solitary dime, Old dogs, children and watermelon wine. - Tom T. Hall By Rich Lindbloom Our family has fostered quite a few four legged...
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Lindbloom’s View: Benchmarks
“The significance of a man is not what he attains but rather what he longs to attain.” – Kahlil Gibran By Rich Lindbloom When my son Greg was about 12 years old I took him to the health club with me...
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Lindbloom’s View: Got My Mojo Workin’
“I wanna tell you a story I wanna tell you about my town I’m gonna tell you a big bad story, baby Aww, it’s all about my town…” By Rich Lindbloom Ah June in the 60’s – a time of warm weather, summer...
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Lindbloom’s View: Taking Care of Business
By Rich Lindbloom Back in the early 70’s, I used to work on my tan in the backyard. I’ve always found it very hard to just lay there and bake – I remember a friend once saying he could lay out for...
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Lindbloom’s View: The long way to Tipperary
Kruger takes a breather [Editor’s note: Rich submitted this piece prior to Game 5 on Saturday, but for a variety of reasons, it could not be posted until now. So, while reading, keep in mind that it...
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Lindbloom’s View: Wild Things
“Cuz we was fighting” By Rich Lindbloom After watching an hour of the post-game show after the Hawks scintillating Game Five triumph, I was fortunate enough to hear the Thin Lizzy song, Fighting My Way...
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Lindbloom’s View: It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye….
“Cowboys eat Maypo.” – Marky’s dad By Rich Lindbloom I’m going to take a wild guess and assume most of you have never heard of Maypo. It was a maple flavored, hot oat cereal from the 1950’s. Initially,...
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Lindbloom’s View: A hustle here, A hustle there
By Rich Lindbloom “To go boldly, where no man has gone before.” –Captain Kirk, Commander of the Starship Enterprise It was sometime around 15 years ago when I worked up the courage to get my first body...
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Lindbloom’s View: Brace Yourself
“Bare trees, grey light Oh yeah it was a cold night Bare trees, grey light” – Danny Kirwan By Rich Lindbloom While walking the dogs the other day, I came across a neighbor who was taking his dog for an...
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Lindbloom’s View: Attack of the Mustard Men
“My dog died yesterday and left me all alone. The finance company stopped by and repossessed my home. But that’s just a drop in the bucket babe, compared to losing you, and I’m down to seeds and stems...
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Lindbloom’s View: Road Stories
“I want to take you higher” —- By Rich Lindbloom About 20 years ago, our friend, and town undertaker, suggested to my wife that I put lights on the pine...
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Lindbloom’s View: Intimidation
“Antoine Roussel got nothing on me” Here is the instance, here is Antoine Roussel. Here is the reason why I will call no mortal hockey player happy. – Sophocles By Rich Lindbloom While driving home...
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Lindbloom’s View: Asserting dominance and bitter pills
The Dutchman “By the shores of the mighty Mississippi where the “hawk wind” blows so cold an old Blues fan lay dyingv in his midnight hour that tolled Round his bed, his toothless friends all gathered...
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Lindbloom’s View: Frosty Times
“Skate!” – Michelindbloomo ”Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. – Michelangelo By Rich Lindbloom In 1501, Michelangelo was commissioned to...
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Lindbloom’s View: Being feisty, and a farewell to Man’s and family’s best friend
That Great Izaak Walton in the sky – RIP Zoie girl. By Rich Lindbloom As I walked down the stairs at 5am on Friday morning, I took a nervous glance at the two hirsute beasts laying on their mats. Our...
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Lindbloom’s View: The Big Chill
“Somebody do Something!” “Now is the winter of our discontent.” – William Shakespeare “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov By Rich Lindbloom Ok, ok,...
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Lindbloom’s View: Late Night Shows
“Twelve O’clock and all is well.” “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow;” Isaiah 1:18 By Rich Lindbloom All’s well with the exception of severe sleep deprivation. Five...
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Lindbloom’s View: Ocean of emotion
“It is always darkest before pitch black.” “It is always darkest before dawn when your world is weary, when all is dark, where dreams die and fade away, and all of life is stark, take heart in gentle...
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Lindbloom’s View: The Bad and the Beauteous
“I – Hold – On” “It’s just an old beat up truck, some say I should trade up Now that I got some jangle in my pocket. But what they don’t understand Is it’s the miles makes the man. I wouldn’t trade...
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Lindbloom’s View: Everything Means Less Than Zero
“You know the angels wanna wear my red pads…” “Oh I used to be disgusted And now I try to be amused. But since their wings have gotten rusted, You know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.” – Elvis...
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