Author Archives: rickjlundeen

We recently had a new garbage company sign contracts with our little town. The old system was getting expensive, what with the stickers going up and up in price. The new system was activated on January 2nd. We now are in possession of two garbage bins. A regular 65 gallon garbage bin and a 65Continue reading “It is still there…”

The thing IS…….I have about 437 faults. One is that many things annoy me. Why can’t the universe be more like me? Never mind, that’s another blog for another time. But I’ll give you an example of why also annoy myself. It’s bedtime and I’m striving to get comfortable so I can fall asleep. I’mContinue reading ““smkLAH””

On January 20th, BBC America is finally committed to showing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Time to dive in and appreciate it. In 1987, original programming on syndicated tv was a wasteland. There were tons of reruns of Gilligan’s Island but not much in the way of new product. Enter Star Trek: The Next Generation.Continue reading “You really should check out Star trek: Deep Space Nine”

There used to be a show on about 30 years ago called The Sports Writers and it was these four old time newspaper sports reporters, one was around 70, one was in his 60’s, one was around 50 and the youngest was late 30’s and they sat around this table, with an all black background,Continue reading “The Sportswriters on TV…”

Spyfall part 1 I went into Doctor Who Series 12 very warily. Series 11 was mostly a mess and the worst over all series of the show since its inception in 1963. And 90% of the problem was new showrunner Chris Chibnall. His horrific scripts mainly.  He was socially progressive in casting the first femaleContinue reading “The Doctor is back…”

Evidently, I have a lot of “lead ins” or qualifiers (?) to most things I say.  “The thing is…” “Anyway…” “I also wanted to say….” “In any case…” “Evidently…” Christ, I’m annoying. I really should just get to the point. Here goes…I guess that’s another one! Jesus!  My wife suggested I start a blog just becauseContinue reading “The thing is called “The thing is…””