First, a musical journey: Duke Ellington's Take the A Train

While taking the Tri-Rail train from FLL to Boca Raton, I pondered how many different trains/subways/trollies/light-rails I have taken.
While it's not as impressive as anything Rapid T Rabbit might have achieved, I'd say it's an impressive list

• NYC MTA: bus, subway
• Roosevelt Island Tram
• NJ ( Read more... )

NYC trivia: Nov 1 will be the 100 year anniversary of a subway wreck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbone_Street_Wreck
The Malbone Street Wreck, also known as the Brighton Beach Line Accident, was a rapid transit railroad accident that occurred November 1, 1918, on ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, "new and improved" products were everywhere ( Read more... )

For many years, there was a Mexican Standoff among Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury/Schwepps to see who would break the $1.99 price for a 2 gallon soda at the supermarket. (CVS, delis and convenience stores passed that mark long ago, particularly if refrigerated ( Read more... )

It's July 4th. Summertime. The east coast is suffering a heat wave.

But NOOOOOOO, stores have declared summer obsolete!(with slight allusion to the Twilight Zone episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obsolete_ManRead more... )

Cinco de Mayo is also UK National Ferret Day.
    http://every-day-is-special.blogspot.com/2014/05/may-5-national-ferret-day-in-uk.html

WQXR played Star Wars music yesterday because
May the 4th be with you :-)

I always wondered about all those car dealers along Route 1 ( Read more... )

RTR would've loved this for his "Clever Contradictions" show segment:
silly store signs and gags:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2GIo7woPiI

I am still pondering the difference between dinner and supper ( Read more... )

'ya know what gets my goat? Minor yet recurring annoyances such as

• leaky batteries. I scrub the corrosion out of something every week. Happily, alkaline batteries do not corrode the contacts and nearby metal as horribly as zinc-acid.
• items missing one of the rubber feet.
• items missing the remote control
• "value engineered" devices with no buttons, or ( Read more... )

Why can't NYC get art stuff like this ( Read more... )