One interesting thing about WordPress is that it comes with its own stats package … and I’m diggin’ it. Past versions of Uncle Crappy have relied solely on a free counter provided by extremetracking.com, which does a nice job of tracking individual hits, page reloads, and as I’ve mentioned before, a whole bunch of neat… Read More i’m huge.
So The Wife and I spent much of the day cleaning out the cave below our apartment, preparing to take untold treasures to Columbus next weekend for the garage sale my parents are hosting. This is a chore we’ve put off for years, partly because the basement is a dark, scary place … and partly… Read More found.
I’ve been having a blast for the last two days reading the responses to a post by Sean Daly, the pop music critic for the St. Pete Times and a neighbor of Uncle Crappy’s Florida family. In order to prep for a story about first-concert experiences, Sean asked the readers of his blog to tell… Read More first time.
On May 8, 1977, GD played one of its legendary shows — one that frequently shows up at the top of the list when Deadheads are discussing the best shows of all time — at Barton Hall at Cornell University. It’s not clear to me whether Carolyn Peterson, the mayor of Ithaca, N.Y., attended… Read More gd day.
I’ll have a lot more to say about Mr. Vonnegut in a day or two. For now, it’s sufficient to say only this: So it goes.
Last year at about this time, I was writing something about how awful our picks were for the First Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge. This year, for the Second Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge, I’m not. Because, overwhelmingly, we don’t suck. As you know by now, the Final Four is set:… Read More saucnffc update.
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