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Friday, August 28, 2015
Remember Yvonne Craig? She's probably most well-known for her role as Batgirl in the original 1960s Batman series. But in a career that spanned over 70 years, she did a lot more than fight alongside the Caped Crusaders.

I remember her in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.Mod SquadGidget, Perry Mason, McHale's NavyMy Three Sons, Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky and HutchFantasy Island...and I'm sure there are more that I don't remember!

But my absolute favorite role that she played was Marta, the green woman who wanted to kill Captain Kirk in Star Trek. 

Her long resume shows what a great actress she was. But her dying wish is what cements her legacy as a class act. According to her family she asked that "no one waste a moment of their time in mourning for her loss in sadness but instead celebrate the awesome life she had been fortunate enough to live".

So I won't waste a moment in mourning. But I will go and watch all those shows again to celebrate her "awesome life".





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Friday, August 21, 2015
I remember watching Sunday football games with my dad almost every weekend. It was a great way to spend time together and an even better way for both of us to get out of yard work – at least for an afternoon. But we might not have had all that leisure time if it hadn't been for a meeting of the minds 95 years ago.

On August 20, 1920, the owners of four Ohio League teams – the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians and Dayton Triangles – met to form a new professional league. Legendary all-around athlete and football star Jim Thorpe was nominated as president of the new league in hopes that people would take it seriously. The meeting led to the creation of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC), the forerunner to the National Football League that we all know and love today.

95 years later, pro football is one of America's favorite sports and I'm still using game day to get out of doing yard work!


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Friday, August 14, 2015
Are you watching CNN's The Seventies? I'm addicted. I admit it. I set my DVR every week, but I end up watching it live anyway.

Last night's installment was about the music of the seventies. I was somewhat shocked and dismayed to discover that the 46th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival is this Saturday (Aug. 15). That means that Woodstock — the event that defined a counterculture — is pushing 50 years old.

Young people then were eager to break out of the mold their parents had created for them. Unlike the previous generation, kids weren't looking to grow up, get a good job, get married, have kids of their own, and retire comfortably. It was all about peace and love and music back then. Jobs didn't matter; money didn't matter; nothing mattered but peace and love and, of course, music.

So where are those idealistic kids almost 50 years later? Most of us did exactly what we said we wouldn't: we got jobs, got married, had kids and started saving for retirement. But that's nothing to fret about. Because I don't think any of us have forgotten the defining spirit of "peace and music" that actually straddled two decades: the sixties and the seventies!


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Friday, August 7, 2015

Just like our t-shirt says, I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands. Well, maybe not all. But a lot. I was watching The Midnight Special on DVD the other night and I realized just how much really great music I got to see and hear when I was growing up — and after. (You know, before I really grew up.)

I'll never forget the first time I saw Pink Floyd. Their light show was like nothing no one had ever done before. Way ahead of their time. And Kiss. At first I thought their costumes were ridiculous (I wasn't the only one). But when they hit the stage, their groove was irresistible. Those four really knew how to “rock and roll all nite”! I was lucky enough to see some of the best bands, including the Doobie Brothers, Journey, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, Santana and Fleetwood Mac (both before and after they were a blues band).

I'll still go to rock concerts now and then. Maybe I'm too old to still enjoy that ringing in my ears that lasts for days. But I do. Maybe I'm too old to shake my fist and sing “and party every day!” But I do. And maybe people think I'm a bit too old for rock concerts. But they're wrong.

I might be a little older, but I'm still going to see all the cool bands.

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