Gordon Hopkins

Does AAA Cover Flying Saucers?

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 07/03/2020 - 10:25am
Tomorrow is July 4, celebrated throughout the land as the birth of our nation. The date is sometimes called Independence Day, which also happens to be the name of an embarrassingly bad movie that relates, tangentially, to the topic of this missive. See, the month of July also marks another important anniversary in the history of this great country.

The Rise Of The House Of Usher

Published by admin on Tue, 06/30/2020 - 11:05am
We’ve all experienced nostalgia at one time or another. Wistful memories of days gone by. A longing for the experiences of a youth we can never regain. But there is another kind of nostalgia, a nostalgia for things we’ve never experienced ourselves.

Hell Or High Water

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 11:10am
As my kittens grow into fully fledged terror machines, I find I have been forced to take up arms against them.
Anyone who ever had a cat, then lost a cat, knows that feeling of, “I miss having a cat,” having totally forgotten what adorably, fluffy, little wrecking machines they are. As I have mentioned before, my new kitties love to climb on things they shouldn't, like bookshelves, kitchen counters, my head, etc. As they get bigger, they do more damage in the process.

But Can You Hear The Whistle Underwater?

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 1:28pm
Contrary to what some (too many) people think, the coronavirus pandemic is far from over. As we enter phase III of the reopening of Nebraska, we must still be very, very careful to protect ourselves and others from catching the virus. 
One of the big concerns for folks here in Nebraska, and across the country, is sports. Put simply, not being able to play or watch sports has been driving this nation crazy.

Beware The Gwim Weapah

Published by admin on Tue, 06/16/2020 - 10:50am
It happens every few years. Kind of like cicadas or another “Charlies Angels” movie, only more annoying. Society collectively decides the whole world is going to heck and the only way to save mankind is to stop kids from having fun.
I’m not entirely sure why kids always find themselves the targets of these good Samaritans. Comic books and water pistols and candy bars have all been singled out at one time or another for corrupting our impressionable youth.
And the biggest villain of all? Cartoons.

The Storm Before The Calm

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 06/12/2020 - 8:41am
Rain. Lightning. Thunderstorms. Flooding. Hail that can punch holes in your house's siding. Wind that can blow the roof off your house and drop it on some other guy's house, possibly in another county. Unbearable humidity. It was 95 degrees. Twenty minutes later is was 75 degrees. And, of course, tornadoes.
In other words, it was a typical Tuesday night in Nebraska.

What Next?

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 9:36am

But Wait, There's More!

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 11:16am
In the early days of television, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) established a time limits for television content intended specifically to sell a product. In other words, commercials. Networks could not transmit a half-hour or hour-long advertisement. This held until 1984, when the FCC undid this rule. 
And, thus, the infomercial was born.

Who Nose?

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 7:24am
Often, when I need to come up with a column, I will just pick a subject and riff on it. For reasons that will become apparent later, I have chosen as the subject for this week's missive, the nose.
Okay, so having settled on a topic for this column, I wasn't really sure where I was going to go with it. So, just for the heck of it, I typed NOSE into a search engine online, just to see what came up. The very first entry was, naturally enough, a definition:

How Richard Simmons Ruined My Life

Published by gordonhopkins on Fri, 05/15/2020 - 10:37am
Some of us get our home entertainment from sleek, gleaming, futuristic discs,  or, perhaps, streaming video or digital downloads, which require no media at all. For those who know only this modernized media, it is hard to imagine that primitive day when owning movies or TV shows required the purchase of clunky, black, plastic cartridges that had to be roughly shoved into a Video Cassette Recorder (VCR), an act akin to loading a magazine of ammo into a machine gun.

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