Folks today can be heard to say "I'm proud to be a Hoosier.". As was said in The Princess Bride, "you keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

For sale: a 1953 Chevrolet from a guy named Catfish, who only used it to haul fish to the market once a week.

Warning: this is your host actually singing and playing guitar. George Martin wrote that he found perfect pitch to be boring, that what was interesting was how the singer reached the correct pitch. I'm still reaching, as you'll hear.

When I was a boy, the corner grocery store was where I first learned to make hard choices on a tight budget. Did I want candy that tasted good or candy that lasted all day?

My first job was supposed to be grill cook and dishwasher. But then all the managers quit at once.

For a small Town kid, the big University held many mysteries, such as why no one was eating the squirrels that infested the campus grounds.

Protesting against pep rallies, entering the cheer contest with an especially violent offering, and publishing an underground school paper were some of the things that kept high school from being terminally boring.

Headed south on highway 37 to Fort Knox for no particular reason, we happened upon a bull, at an impact speed of 50 mph.

Strange memories of the faculty at Virgil Grissom High School in the early Seventies.

Sometimes you really have to go, but peeing can have consequences, including the a riot end to a romantic evening - hence the tune following the monologue.