The Use-To-Be IBM Tower in Atlanta

this post card used to be the IBM Tower in Atlanta. I wonder what it will used-to-be next?

Visiting the Marietta Museum of History Aviation Wing

A few years ago Marietta Museum of Hisotry took on the enormous task of collecting airplanes. All the planes shown on this post are planes consigned to the Marietta Museum of History. As I understand it, no planes were actually donated. They are all on loan from various military and private institutions. Why don't you pay them a visit? It is next to the Dobbins/Lockheed complex, behind the Federal Credit Union, next door to the Haunted House on the base.
























Wow! Have you ever seen such a cute killing machine? It is a missle that looks like a plastic toy. I would like to have something like that myself. I would be the envy of the neighborhood.








This thing has a huge wingspan. I couldn't even back up enogh to get it all in.




Hmmmm. I thought it was over there where I was a few minutes ago.













There it is again! I think it is a heat seeking missle! I think it wants to follow me home.

2nd Woodstock Bluegrass Jamboree

Mars Hill Porch Pickers

Jot'Em Down Boys

Saturday evening we went to the second Woodstock Bluegrass Jamboree. It is held the first Saturday of each month at Woodstock Community Church on Rope Mill Road. This time they had a slide show playing on a wide screen above the stage. The pictures were of down to earth people who worked hard for their for their living in rural areas, dirt poor musicians here and there and also some more known musicians. The pictures reminded me of the book "Family of Man". Just like last month the jamboree featured two groups: The Mars Hill Porch Pickers and The Jot’Em Down Boys.

We enjoy Bluegrass for the performer's love of performing. No matter how they perform, you know each and every one of them is up there to do something they truely love. I only know of one local bluegrass player who quit his day job to teach bandjo professionally and work further in the music industry. Guess that is now his "day job".

The below video is the Jot’Em Down Boys playing their last song for the night, “Mountain Dew”. My little camera does not give the sound justice but you can get an idea of their energy. If you enjoy Bluegrass, why not come out next month to support this venue? You won't be sorry!

Today in History, February the 6th:

1869: Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers

1994: Jack Kirby cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Captain America, Hulk), died at 76

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! SAD SACK, part 2

From Wikipedia:

The Sad Sack is an American fictional comic strip and comic book character created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II. Set in the United States Army, Sad Sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life. The title was a euphemistic shortening of the military slang "sad sack of shit", common during WWII. The phrase has come to mean "an inept person" or "inept soldier".

Originally drawn in pantomime by Baker, The Sad Sack debuted June 1942 as a comic strip in the first issue of Yank, the Army Weekly. It proved popular, and a hardcover collection of Baker's wartime Sad Sack strips was published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. in 1944, with a follow-up, The New Sad Sack (1946). The original book was concurrently published as an Armed Services edition mass market paperback, in that edition's standard squarebound, horizontal, 5 5/8" x 4" format, by Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization of The Council on Books in Wartime; it was #719 in the series of Armed Service editions.

After the war ended, The Sad Sack ran in newspaper syndication in the United States until 1957. Baker then sold the rights to Harvey Comics, which produced a large number of commercial spin-offs.

HAPPY SUPERBOWL SUNDAY!!

Queen Elizabeth Has Been on the Throne 60 Years

Congratulations to Queen Elizabeth for being on the throne for 60 years! That is a long time. And that whole time she has held up her end looking regal. Next: A Royal Flush.

The Good, Bad, Ugly and Cute

We may be Good, we may be Bad, and for sure we are Ugly, but if you look at us in the right light, with one eye closed and your head tilted, you might think we are cute too.



Note. If you want it full screen where we will either look better (or uglier), click the little symbol in the bottom right corner of the video.

Bluegrass Jamboree Tomorrow Eve in Woodstock, Ga

Jot-'Em-down Boys

The second Woodstock, Georgia’s Bluegrass Jamboree will be tomorrow, night, Saturday, February the 4th, 7pm.
I think the cost was $7 each last month and they also have an intermission concession counter.

Last month it was at the Community Church on Rope Mill Road, turning left off Main Street. I assume it will be in the same place this month. If you come and it is not at the mentioned church, look around town or ask a policeman or something.

It will feature the Jot-'Em-Down Boys and the Mars Hill Porch Pickers. 7-9pm

Only 9 More Shopping Days Until the End

Based on at least two unrelated ancient predictions the End of the World will occur nine days from now, February the 12th.

I doubt if the end of the world will really occur then because I hope it doesn’t. And never underestimate the power of hoping.

In fact, I shrug and quote the old saying, “Only worry about things you can control.”

But, really, I wasn’t worried at all until I realized that date is also the birth day of an old friend of mine. My friend has always claimed himself to be a total misfit.

Oops!

The History of Groundhog Day

Do you know the history of Groundhog Day, like how it got started and how it developed itself into today’s version?

I did some extensive research on the subject – which means that I read today's page of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader page-a-day Calendar: In old Europe on February the 2nd they celebrated Candlemas, which is the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The church clergymen lighted candles and la-de-da. Then the Germans altered the tradition to include a hedgehog. If the hedgehog sees its shadow there would be six more weeks of winter. Then many Europeans started migrating to the new world. A lot Germans settled in Pennsylvania. They wanted to continue Hedgehog Day but there were no hedgehogs. They substituted groundhogs. So, there you have it, the development of Groundhog Day.

Now, I don’t know if you are aware of it or not but some of the details have changed again. Now, on February the 2nd, the honorary groundhog must see, not his own shadow, but the above character.