LarryC's World

Yeah I know, I’ve been missing from the BLOG. Sorrrrryyyy!! It has been a rough 6 weeks for the TaxAide program here in Las Cruces. I won’t bore you with details. The short story is we had to find a new location in January, and I had just 2 weeks to get everything set up [...]

One more gaga entry and then we’ll close the topic. I was questioned about why I like Lady Gaga. So, here are 2 exhibits that I found interesting. This first one is an interview from German TV that apparently was filmed in November of 2009. The video is 8 minutes, and it starts with a [...]

A year ago, I hadn’t heard of Lady Gaga. Well, maybe I had heard of her peripherally, but I had no idea who (or what) she was. Well today, you can’t avoid her. This past week was the big CES (consumer electronics show) in Vegas. This is one of, if not the largest trade show [...]

I thought this was pretty cute! Always did love Buffy, even if the series did get a little boring toward the end.

This picture was taken over a week ago. We had some snowfall overnight on December first. Usually, we only get a light dusting of snowfall, but this time there was an accumulation of about 2 – 3 inches at our house. But, as usual, and one of the reqasons we live here, it was gone [...]

I remember where I was when JFK was assassinated. As a senior at West Aurora High school in Aurora, IL, it was right about lunch time when rumors started to swirl through the school that something had happened. Finally, it got to the point where classes were dominated by talk of the shooting and the [...]

Ahhh, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Steppenwolf, what could be more reminiscent of the end of the 60’s? To tell the truth, Easy Rider is not one of my favorite films. I find it overlong and self-indulgent. But 40 years after its release, it seems to be finding new respectability.  A good chunk of the [...]

Wow… It’s been a while since I posted. Part of the reason is I just didn’t have anything worthwhile to say. Part of the reason is that I am overwhelmed by the sheer … oh what’s the word?… stupidity…  of our country. Watching the news is an exercise in agony. How much coverage did ‘Balloon [...]

You may only have one more night of Moon watching. Tomorrow morning (7:31 AM EDT), NASA plans to bomb the Moon with the upper stage of an Atlas-Centaur rocket. Presumably this is a scientific experiment to examine the amount of water is on the Moon. I think it could be the end of our beloved [...]

While putting together that last post about TV theme songs, I spent qite a bit of time on Youtube looking at clips and trying to find the best quality available to add to the post. It wasn’t always possible to add the best, though. For instance, the best version of Hawaii Five-0 had embedding disabled. [...]

I’ve been thinking about doing this post for some time. Then, last week, Peter Hartlaub did a post in the San Francisco Chronicle on this subject. I liked some of Peter’s choices, and think he was off the mark on some others. To recap, Peter’s choices were: ‘Twilight Zone’ (good choice), ‘Six Feet Under’ (OK), [...]

When I was a kid in Peoria, IL, we used to call soda-pop ’soda’. Sometimes that became soder or sody. In the 5th grade, my dad got transferred from Peoria to Aurora, IL. Aurora was about 120 miles north of Peoria, not really that far. In those days (1957) Aurora was the far west end [...]