SPINADELIC

Description: Our parent's clock radio blasted Dionne's classic versions of Burt's songs and that along with cereal got us up and out the door school mornings.

Description: This antique radio was perched atop a bookshelf at a local record shop. Compounding the technological datedness.

Description: Yeah, this is autobiographical. Suffered absolutely zero stomach repercussions.

Description: The view from the Hyatt, 12th floor.

Description: Classic leather, styling, feel, smell....

Description: Technically this is a glove for a left-hander but who's really going to stick to that?

Description: Little Rock actually had TWO minor league hockey teams for about a season and a half. Not much of a fan base once you get past the novelty of it.

Description: The guitar stylist presented in a quirky style.

Description: Remember these?

Description: He has a fancy wig. He's wearing upper-class threads. But he cannot shake the pigeons.

Description: I mean you get to see a lotta stuff. But the pigeons,...

Description: This frieze has always been one of my favorites. James Earle Fraser was the sculptor.

Description: Making a delivery against the Bulls, back in the proverbial day.

Description: Blue and a pilot saluting in front of a prop plane.

Description: Yeah - a nice canned cola about to invade a glass of ice cubes!

Description: Vintage 1970s newspaper ad for a state fair.

Description: How're you doin'? Fair to middlin'.

Description: If looks could kill....

Description: Given the ease with which I uploaded this image and with which you are looking at it it is kinda difficult to grasp how impossible this would have seemed back in like 1973.

Description: I mean what the....

Description: I think I made this saying up. It was my in the moment way of trying to convince my sister to make cookies one night. Obviously an adaptation of the chestnut about good intentions. But hits home more TO ME.

Description: You're cool. Maybe you're as cold as ice. Maybe you're colder than cool. Whatever.

Description: I created this for a Tex-Mex eatery in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Description: Remember the McKenzie Brothers movie? (Not many people do.)

Description: Strother Martin delivered this line in indelible fashion.

Description: Who can say otherwise?

Description: I built a model of the STAX exterior out of cardboard and painted it with acrylics. Because I love STAX. And building stuff.

Description: That new school in the booming Rock Ridge community has the best new gym, too.

Description: The only ticker-tape parade I have ever seen, thrown for South African leader Nelson Mandela.

Description: Busking on a crisp winter day.

Description: Oh, to be at Wrigley Field on a temperate Chicago afternoon....

Description: Famed Memphis record label, source of so much deep soul music.

Description: Treasured haunt, bridge to Old Hollywood and generally good hang.

Description: From the old song.

Description: Hall of Fame catcher, Cincinnati Red.

Description: Picking one favorite line from the movie misses the point. Picking a clunker would be an easier task, and I don't feel I have the distance to even attempt that.