Siftings
Nov
30
Scrolling
Kerouac’s masterwork, now owned by one of the billionaires profiting from the CTE industry known as the National Football League, is called “The Scroll”. Taped together, the pages run 120 feet. Single-spaced and without paragraph breaks, “The Scroll” became On The Road, novelizing a series of...
Nov
26
Dug In
First Wrigley, now this. Can’t anyone leave well enough alone? Checking in on Rand Wonio Field, I see the dugouts are gone. They were old and worn, made of wood some decades ago. The benches were small, the roofs leaked and birds nested in them. They were nowhere near on par with the quality...
Nov
24
Not Thirteen Minutes. Twelve.
Mellow Larry was anything but. A youth sports coach with creaking knees and a cranky disposition, he served as a nickname role model for the kids. Namely; the best nicknames are the opposite of how you act. Larry had a particular obsession about the sanctity of the playing surface even during...
Nov
22
Trades
“Leave em for Frank*.” Dropping off my “D” and “P” Scrabble letter cufflinks at Mayor Gluba’s office, I don’t want to be presumptuous or sexist about who the next Davenport City Administrator may be. All I know is the chances of me suiting up with D/P cufflinks in the future are such that there’s...
Nov
14
Gimme The Pill, Skip
Reading this morning’s account of Bettendorf’s loss in the state semi-finals, I recall one of my favorite pictures from Colin’s tour of Bulldog baseball duty. Colin (right) and Jacob Weir (left) coming in from the bullpen in the top of an inning, ready to put out the fire starting to smolder on...
Nov
04
Yamaha On A Roll
Last week, they unveil a lithe little supercar concept (here) and this week, they continue with another in their "Faster Sons" series with a Roland Sands FZ9 that King Kenny comes calling for.
If motorcycle racing history is your thing, check out the video (here). Be sure to wait for the...
Nov
04
Even Terry’s Bummed
The guy who wanted to guarantee every Davenport child a shot at a better life, lower everyone's taxes and help a few Honduran kids ... still had a heck of a run.
My take, from the day after - or, at least a day after - (here), which I think holds up well.
On the topic of thinking, it just might...
Nov
01
Found
Perpetually damp. What could be a great band name is, instead, an army surplus backpack filled with fifty pounds of rocksalt and weights that only dries out in January and February. Though the canvas may not actually dry out in winter, it may just freeze. Impregnated with years of sweat and...
Oct
30
Craig’s Friday Countdown - Airports Based On Food
Until ORD gets a Portillo's or Davenport International gets its own Oh So Sweet, SFO reigns supreme.
Even without the Ghirardelli store.
With it, no other airport is even worth mentioning.
Oct
29
The Most Exciting Thing ...
... that happened in the entire world yesterday (unless, maybe, your name is 2016 Cubs starting pitcher Johnny Cueto) is this. The Yamaha Sports Ride Concept at the Tokyo Motor Show. The best engine maker on the planet (setting the crazed brutality of Kawasaki aside), and darn fine maker of...
