Lindbloom’s View: Taking out the garbage
“Mom, Andrew’s touching me again…” A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She’s the pin up girl of fairies. She’s the ultimate fairy,...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: The Buddy System
“The Buddy System is a procedure in which two people, the “buddies,” operate together as a single unit so that they are able to monitor and help each other.” Advantages: In adventurous or dangerous...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View” A Quiet Knight Indeed
“I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish American War.” – Dave Barry By Rich Lindbloom I came across the “Father and Sons” photo above one of the booths at Due’s on...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Never Let Go
Never Let Go! “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb – and a brief summary of the chaotic victory over the Dallas Stars By Rich Lindbloom The above photo is a picture of our two...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Symphony of a Goalie
Maestro! “The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.” – Chick Corea By Rich Lindbloom I recall talking to RoseLee and Earl between periods of a game...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Makin’ A Wreck Out of Me
“The Big Crap Game” “Oooh, Las Vegas Ain’t no place for a poor boy like me, Every time I hit your crystal City you know You’re gonna make a wreck out of me.” By Rich Lindbloom In 1975, Emmy Lou Harris...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Seeing Things In The Dark
Bad, Bad, Bad “I’m mad…and that’s a fact I found out…animals don’t help Animal think…they’re pretty smart Shit on the ground…see in the dark They wander around like a crazy dog Make a mistake in the...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: On Pond Stars and Kimmo Time
Five veterans overlooked by Stan Bowman By Rich Lindbloom “Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.” The picture above depicts five “experienced” (i.e. – old as dirt) players that Stan Bowman...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Puzzling even for a Puzzler
Snake Bit “The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Flying on Dirty Boulevard
New York, New York – A Tale of Two Teams “Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I’ll piss on them that’s what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses, let’s club ‘em to death and get it...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: On Questions and Gimmees
By Rich Lindbloom The gimmee in golf is often described as an uneasy agreement between hackers who have no clue what to do when grasping the magic wand. Many golfers take issue with this stroke...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Miss P and the Darlings
Meet Miss P! By Rich Lindbloom There are rare moments in life when the stars align, those nights when you fill those inside straights. Remember Patrick Kane’s hat trick in Game 6 against Vancouver on...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: The Dew Drop In
The Many (Ugly) Faces of St. Louis Blues Hockey “Now the last I wanted was to get into a fight in Jackson Mississippi on a Saturday night especially when there was three of them and only one of me.” –...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Forks in the Road to Stanley
Roads and Roads “Walking down that lonesome road Fly with me on fire, Lookin’ for that windy place Searchin’ ever higher. High upon a mountain top Fortress thick and bonded, Thoughts about a brighter...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Darlin’ Corey
On Gorging Ourselves and Sad Country Songs “Oh where have you gone darlin’ Cory With a dram glass in your hand She’s a drinking away all her troubles And a courtin’ some other man..” Doc Watson By...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Honey, Don’t Ask
Q-dawg, riding that horse hard “Quit whining or I’ll put you in for Rozsival” “I ain’t much for mowing grass I’m too slow for working too fast I don’t do windows, so honey don’t ask But I’m pretty...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Sparks
Reflections On A Hand Shake Game “We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.” – Mignon McLughlin By Rich Lindbloom In 1979 Graham Parker recorded his album, Squeezing out Sparks. The...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Still Amazing After All These Years
Simply A-maze-ing Labyrinth – A place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys; Something extremely complex or tortuous in structure, arrangement, or character. By Rich...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: Oh, How Can I Explain?
A Rorschach Test Dale Arden: “Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the earth.” By Rich Lindbloom The Rorschach Test, developed by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, involved...
View ArticleLindbloom’s View: A Fighter’s Stance
June 9, 1978 In the clearing stands a boxer, And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of ev’ry glove that laid him down And cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame “I am...
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