Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #482 - A new friend for Halloween

Me and Keith Brodie - at Rowena's - 1610.31

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #482 - A new friend for Halloween - A one Musical Monday

Hi Mom,

So after Liesel and I went up to Gloucester  or more accurately between Machester-by-the-Sea and Gloucester to Hammond Castle, seen to the left, we went back to Rowena's for dinner where I met Keith Brodie, and we had quite a conversation about consciousness, the meaning of life, the intention of spirit, and great music, such as the work of Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, and many others.

When I find someone who has even heard of the band Japan, let alone likes them, I know I have found a kindred soul.

Our conversation was so intense that Liesel decided to take our picture as she felt I made such a great connection with this guy that she was "losing her husband" or some such as she shared in her Facebook post on the subject. I may never see Keith Brodie again in my life, but it was great to make a connection with a guy who shares a lot of my interests and beliefs. We got talking about quantum reality, driverless cars, and all sorts of things. It was quite fun. I can hold my own in man y conversations, but this one was tailored right to my main ideas. Keith had some great theories about wholeness and the cells of the body and the spirit, but I cannot remember them well enough to articulate them. I gave him my card and sent him a Facebook friend request as he promised me photos from when he did sound for different bands and has great stuff from the 1980s and 1990s.

I should mention that Rowena is an amazing photographer and printer of photography. We saw some of her own work in her apartment, which was gorgeous (both the work and the apartment), but she served for a long time as a printer for famous photographer Annie Liebowitz and had many signed Liebowitz prints that were just amazing.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 484 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.31 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #481 - Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden House - 1610.30
photo and effects by Liesel MK Tower

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #481 - Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden - late in her life
20+ years after the murders

Hi Mom,

I know you love this best. Here's a whole bunch of photos from our trip.

But first, the one above is of the Lizzie Borden house where Liesel and I went on this day, Sunday, in the morning, down to Fall River. After seeing the "crime scene," we had some chowder.

We had a great time on this trip.

We were smarter about activity this time, making sure we had plenty of rest. Plus, I had work to do, so I needed some "down" time.

I managed the rental car much more easily here in the states than in Scotland. Not that I had many problems in Scotland, but with bigger roads, and traffic that is not literally coming right you, I did much better.

I love this picture to the left. After Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the double homicide that most people believe she committed (but maybe she didn't), she and her sister Emma had a very large inheritance to enjoy. They bought a lavish home and lived a very comfortable life. Lizzie took to giving parties for thespian groups, as she loved theatre folk. Eventually, Emma moved out, disgusted with "what was going on in the house," but no one knows for sure if she was referring to those parties or something else.

Apparently, you can stay the night in the Lizzie Borden house as it is now a B&B. One can stay in the bed room where one of the murders took place or in the room that had been Lizzie's or her father's.
We were told that many times people end up spending the night in their cars in the parking lot, unable to spend the entire night in the house.

a house Liesel liked in Marblehead

Ghoul on Essex Street, Salem

OLD BURIAL GROUNDS - FROM SALEM TRIP - 1611.29

CORWIN WITCH HOUSE - FROM SALEM TRIP - 1611.29

Liesel and Rowena at FINZ 1610.29

photo by Liesel

photo by Liesel

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 483 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.30 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #480 - Salem, Massachusetts 1610.29

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #480 - Salem, Massachusetts 1610.29

Hi Mom,

Liesel and I are in Salem, Massachusetts.

So, Salem was pretty cool. I am writing the rest of his post far out in the future (11/12), and I can report now that we had a pretty great time.

This is a picture of us out in front of the Corwin Witch House, which is one of the few real historical sites in Salem from the 1692 Witch Trials. This is the home of one of the judges where some witchcraft may have taken place.

It was the first thing we did on the official first non-travel day of our trip.

Then we had lunch here.

More pictures tomorrow.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 482 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.29 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #479 - Sudoku

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #479 - I bought Sudoku

Hi Mom,

Flying to Salem, Massachusetts today.

Well, actually, Boston, and then taking a car to Marblehead, which is right next door to Salem.

In the airport, I bought a Sudoku puzzle book. It kept my math brain busy when not allowed to use electronic devices.

I ended up doing more puzzles than I thought I would do.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 481 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.28 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #478 - Halloween 1967

Halloween either 1967 or 1968

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #478 - Halloween 1967

Hi Mom,

This could be 1967 or 1968. It could even be 1969, but I am waiting to see if Dad can identify it. I know you would be able to define the date.

It's the day before the trip, and I am grading like King Kong, swatting planes out of the air and climbing to the top of the Empire State.

Damn, I am a nuclear fire.

Still in catch up mode. The actual date is Friday November 11th.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 480 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.27 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #477 - BOO! - Zoo Boo Photo

RBT & MET Ready to hit the Zoo Boo at Binder Park - 1997

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #477 - BOO! - Zoo Boo Photo

Ho Mom,

I love your smile in this photo. You are obviously getting quite a kick out of these costumes.

I am still in catch up mode and way behind. Originally, on this day, I was grading like a mad fiend. It's over two weeks later now. The most I have ever been behind on this blog, but keen to catch up.

So, gaze upon this fine photo from 1997. I love it.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 479 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.26 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother # 476 - Dissecto Rules!

Me and my sister Lori - The Dissecto hand chopper illusion
photo circa 1978-79

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother 476 - Dissecto Rules!

Hi Mom,

I am in catch up mode. I am far in the future writing this note backwards in time.

In the days leading up to Liesel and my trip to Salem, Massachusetts, I was slammed with work and then just fell off the blog wagon. I had many hurdles when I got home to catch up.

So for the next several blog posts, I am going to do pictures and quick comments.

Here's a great old photo that I am posting for this first one so as to share it with my students by getting it on the Internet. It was meant to be a publicity photo for my magic business and shows me demonstrating the Abbott's Dissecto hand chopper illusion with my sister as an assistant.

This is a prelude to Halloween photo, obviously.

"Oh the horror welcomes her again..." - Dickinson

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 478 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.25 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #475 - Musical Monday for 1610.24

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #475 - Musical Monday for 1610.24

Hi Mom,

While I am immersed in 1980s delights sharing Joy Division, New Order, and King Crimson with my students, there's new releases from Leonard Cohen, Moby, and Pattern Forms. There's also Lorde covering Tears For Fears' best known song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," which I know has been out for a while, but I just found it. It's fitting to share these songs today, which is United Nations Day.

Enjoy the music, Mom, and friends. Here's a good article on the Cohen stuff.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker

































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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 477 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.24 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #474 - CUBS WIN!! CUBS in World Series 2016!

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #474 - CUBS WIN!! CUBS in World Series 2016!

Hi Mom,

It was touch and go at first, but the Cubs made it into the WORLD SERIES for the first time since 1945.

They have not been to the series in my life time.

They almost made it in 1984 when I could have seen my beloved Tigers play my beloved Cubs and would have been a little conflicted (but rooted for the Tigers anyway). And then 2003, BARTMAN. Poor guy. Living in infamy. Who doesn't get exicted to try to catch a foul ball, especially at Wrigley Field?

And now the Cubs square off against another team with a long drought, the Cleveland Indians, who lost the series to the Marlins in 1997, fitting because the Cubs lost the NLCS to the Marlins in 2003. The Marlins won both of those years.

I am not predicting anything. I don't want to jinx them. I am trying not to hope too much, but I do hope.

GO CUBS!!

Here's a collection of links (below) for my Cubs blog posts from both this blog and the T-shirts blog. I have reprinted some of the text from T-shrits.

HEY MOM

My Well Worn Cubs Hat - Hey Mom #453

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #272 - Baseball is back! (I miss you, Ron Santo)

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #346 - Ron and Pat Show part two

T-SHIRTS

T-shirt #115: Chicago Cubs Est.1876

T-shirt #259 - The First Chicago Cubs Shirt

T-shirt #291 - Wrigley Field

T-shirt #317 - Cubs - Blue Stripes

T-shirt #341 - Chicago Cubs Blue Long Sleeved

T-shirt #352 - Cub Fan - Bart Man

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T-shirt #352 - Cub Fan - Bart Man

Baseball season is upon us, and I am making my nefarious plans for my Fantasy Baseball Empire with my first draft tonight.

Actually, I am going to wing it. I don't have time to prepare my own stats log and analysis, so I am going with the work of Baseball Forecaster and my own reasonable intuition for this league, in which I placed eighth of twelve last year. I think I can beat that record.

I did not win any of my leagues last year. The best I finished was second out of eight. I finished fourth in the league I run (TIGER TOWNE), third of eight in a league run by my friend Craig, and sixth of twelve in a New England league. I was kicked out of a rotisserie league run by a crazy madman, so I decided to reboot his league with the other players who may well be disgruntled.

Today, I am renewing the "hiatus shirt" mandate in order to possibly catch up by Monday on the seven incomplete blog entries found elsewhere via my main address. They are now sufficiently buried so as not be so persistent to my psyche's wellness, and yet, I know they are there.

Several gravitational anomalies aligned in the galaxy to produce this blog, which originally had been schedule as not one other but two other shirts.

And then I saw this: 365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 66: The Finkatronic Ray, which reminded me of my Cub Fan Bart Man T-shirt as a herald (get it? If you're a comic geek given my picture of Homer-Galactus below, you will get it.) of SPRING and BASEBALL SEASON.

I have given shouts to both the BULLY SAYS COMICS OUGHTA BE FUN and the wonderful Pencil Ink blog, and this morning I decided to let those bloggers know of my appreciation for their efforts with comments on their sites.

Bully is doing a 365 Days of Kirby Tech series, which, yesterday, manifested as tech from the Simpsons comic. Wonderful stuff. Here's one of the pics he shared from Panels from "Captain Cupcake and Pieboy!" in Simpsons Super Spectacular #5 (July 2007), script by Mike W. Barr, pencils by James Lloyd, inks by Andrew Pepoy, colors by Rick Reese, letters by Karen Bates.

Meanwhile, I decided to post -- pretty much -- just pictures today. So here, we go (with a little text in between, D'oh!!) Okay, Don't have a cow, man.

There are 21 entries (including today's) in my Baseball category, which is a sport name that -- as you may or may not know -- I like to deify with a capital letter.

I featured the shirt that goes with this hat in T-shirt #182.

Here's some text from that blog:

T-shirt #80: Detroit Tigers est. 1901 may be my best  Baseball post so far, though T-shirt #115: Chicago Cubs est. 1876 also shares a great deal of good Baseball stuff. I love the sense of history. I love the stats. I love my teams.

But it's all best summed up by this quote from the great Ernie Harwell:

"Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. A carnival without kewpie dolls. Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season."

When I saw this T-shirt, I had to have one. I like the Simpsons, but I would not characterize myself as a massive Simpsons fan like some folks.

"Don't Have a Cow, Harry!" refers to Harry Caray, former announcer for the Chicago Cubs, who always used to say "Holy Cow!" and since Bart Simpson often says "Don't Have a Cow, Man" then this is a great joke connection.

Harry Caray died in 1998. Here's a little weird irony: in the 2003 playoffs, one of the Cubs few post-season appearances in the last 20 years. In October of 2003, the Cubs were playing in the National League Championship series against the Florida Marlins (who won the World Series that year), there's one incident that is defined as the losing moment for that Cubs team, preventing them from advancing to the World Series. It has come to be known as the STEVE BARTMAN INCIDENT.

Lifelong Cubs fan Steve Bartman interfered with a catch by Cubs outfielder Moisés Alou. Had Alou caught that ball for the out, the Cubs would have been four outs from the National League title and the World Series. As it turned out, the Cubs lost the game and eventually the series.

Get it? The shirt is "Bart Man" and is from Cubs merchandise no later than 1998 and possibly earlier, and yet it foreshadows the infamous "villain" of the Cubs' 2003 loss. Really, it's a sad thing. Steve Bartman is a well meaning Cubs fan who got caught up in the excitement of a ball coming his way and made a mistake, like we all do (make mistakes that is). It just so happened to be a mistake that is believed to have cost the Cubs a National League title and a shot at winning the World Series.

Remember how in yesterday's blog I mentioned saving time for date night with my lovely wife? Well, here's our sashimi/sushi dinner from Friday the 7th of March using a gift certificate given to use for Christmas.

We love delicious sashimi/sushi at KUMO.

YUM.

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COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 13 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1403.08 - 13:11




T-shirt #341 - Chicago Cubs Blue Long Sleeved

As I count down to March 22nd, when it all began last year for this blog, there's going to be quite a few Baseball shirts (which if you recall I deify with a capital letter). Since I already shared all but one of my Detroit Tigers shirts, and I am saving that last Tigers shirt for the final week, you will probably see several CUBS T-shirts, as I have quite a few remaining.

Also, given that I am still behind, I am trying to avoid falling farther behind by not posting any more incomplete entries. To accomplish this goal, I have to keep it short and simple.

Baseball's spring training has begun. Players have reported and games begin soon.

I am starting to get excited again for Baseball season.

I am a bit of a stats nut, as I have mentioned before, so getting ready for Baseball season again means pouring over stats and planning my FANTASY BASEBALL TEAMS.

USA Today did a smart thing by hiring Ron Shandler and launching its own exclusive chats service with

BASEBALL HQ.

I am a subscriber both to this service, which means I receive the stats-tastic excellence of the BASEBALL FORECASTER book, AND a subscriber to SPORTS WEEKLY, which used to be Baseball Weekly, which I can now read on my tablet as well as in paper form.

I have spent many long hours considering complex measures of hitting and pitching to optimize playing Fantasy Baseball games which I do for free and for which I earn no money. Seems a bit crazy. I love it.

A friend of my wife's and mine is trying to engage in political debate on Facebook, and I care for very little for that debate or politics compared to Baseball.

Time for Baseball.

Let's PLAY BALL!!

COUNTDOWN TO END OF THE BLOG YEAR - 24 shirts remaining

- chris tower - 1402.25 - 19:49


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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1610.23 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.