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Delaware River 2021 Preliminary Osprey Count in Lower Bucks, Northeast Philadelphia, and Burlington Counties

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Mike Slickster

On March 27th, I took a count of what ospreys were at the upper northeastern nests in my survey area of Lower Bucks County, PA, and Burlington County, NJ. A mate joined the male on the Landreth Channel buoy. None … Continue reading →

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Another Essay That’s For The Birds

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Mike Slickster

Almost like clockwork, a couple of ospreys have returned to my neck of the woods for another breeding season, although, not exactly in Andalusia yet. Usually they appear around St. Patrick’s Day, but have been arriving late for the past … Continue reading →

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Music History 101

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Mike Slickster

A little trick with Nick: Nick, Nick, bo-bick,Bo-na-na fanna fo fick,Fee fi mo-mick,Nick! That was an excerpt from the song, “The Name Game,” by Shirley Ellis. Do you remember it? Probably not, unless you’re a Baby Boomer, part of the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 1960s, america, American television, anniversary, Baby boomer, Beatle-maniac, Beatles, Bowler City, bowling, bowling league, British Invasion, bugs, CBS Evening News, Charles Manson, Chuck, civil-rights advocates, cold war, commeration, Ed Sullivan Show, england, Fab Four, friends, garage band, growing up, hackensack, Hippies, history, insects, John Kennedy, kids, Martin Luther King Jr., Miami, Mike, Mop Tops, music, N.J., new york city, Nick, nuclear threat, remembrance and service, repertoire, Robert Kennedy, rock-and-roll band, She Loves You, Shirley Ellis, Silent Generation, Summer of Love, Tate-LaBianca murders, The Name Game, top-ten list, top-ten radio, tragedies, turbulence, vietnam, Walter Cronkite | 2 Comments

It’s That Time of Year Again!

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Here’s hoping you had a great Thanksgiving, for those who celebrated. And for those who didn’t, hopefully you had a wonderful week. My boots blew out this morning while getting laced up. I bought the footwear on Amazon in October … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged address labels, aging, Amazon, aspirin, Beatle boots, Beatles, bellies, bellyaching, Black Friday, boots, Brenda Lee, Bristol Borough, buck, butts, charitable marketers, cheap pens, christmas, Christmas Tree, complaining, consumers, contributions, droops, ears, free gifts, garbage bin, hiking, jones, junk, leg hair, low-dose aspirins, luck, modern-day mysteries, new fashion trend, online, personalized stationary, shrinks, shrivels up, solicit, Thanksgiving, thighs, tirade, Walmart, woods, yuletide, zippers | 4 Comments

A Trivia Quiz About the Dark Ages

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Mike Slickster

The above illustration is a painting by Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla, from around 1450 CE, depicting Petrarch: an Italian scholar who conceived in the 1330s, the idea of a European “Dark Age,” as compared to the light of classical … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged ancient history, Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla, baby boomers, Beatles, classical antiquity, dark ages, Fats Domino, Free Speech Movement, Generation X, heat wave, I Found My Thrill on Blueberry Hill, Jack Weinberg, lazy, old school, Petrarch, thinking caps, trivia quiz, University of California in Berkely | 1 Comment

Born in the U.S.A.

Posted on May 25, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Memorial Day Weekend has arrived again extra quickly this year, in this blogster’s humble opinion. Seems as if springtime fast-forwarded, like a tape on an old reel-to-reel recorder. Remember those, or even cassette decks and VCRs? Does anyone actually use … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged analog TV, Beatles, black-hole closet, blogster, Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen, Burlington, camcorders, cassette decks, cassette recordings, casualties of war, computers, dedication, eight-track player, eight-track tapes, electronic equipment, fallen American soldiers, freedom, Grateful Dead, Grrr, holiday weekend, In memoriam, Jersey City, Johann Sebastian Bach, Led Zepplin, libery, life, memorial day, Memorial Day Weekend, MG, Moog synthesizer, museum, naive child, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, NJ, opinion, outdated, pursuit of happiness, recycling center, reel-to-reel tape recorder, respect, rock-and-roll, rolling stones, Santana, springtime, St. Mary's Cemetery, stereo rack, summertime festivities, Switched-on Bach, the Doors, The Unknown Soldier, The Who, ultimate sacrifice, VCR, VHS, video-8 cassettes, vinyl collection, Walter Carlos, Wendy Carlos, Wikipedia, yearly tribute | Leave a comment

Groundhog’s Day at a Bald Eagle Festival

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Just got back from the Winter Eagle Festival in Cumberland County, N.J. The event took place at the Natural Lands Reserve northwest of Mauriceville, inland from the Delaware Bay. Beautiful marshland stretching far as the eye can see contained trails … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Bald Eagles, Beatles, birding, birds of prey, Bucks County, CDC, Cumberland County, Cumberland County Winter Eagle Festival, Delaware Bay, Delaware River, Delaware Watershed, eagle festival, environmental organizations, feet, Fitbit, Fortescue, frigid temperatures, Great Northeast, Groundhog's Day, guides, harriers, Mauriceville, Mother Nature's Son, Natural Lands, Natural Lands Reserve, NJ, old fart, owl watch, PA, philadelphia, Philadelphia County, photography, pneumonia weather, Punxsutawney Phil, raptors, red-tailed hawks, scopes, smart watch, sore, sunrise, sunset, t-shirt weather, TastyKakes, Turkey Point, Walt Whitman Bridge | Leave a comment

Changes

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Things aren’t what they used to be. How many times have we heard that lately? Of course they’re not. Everything changes and so should we, but it’s hard to do. The only thing certain in life is change. Who said … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged #IAmOldEnoughTo, ad infinitum, awkwardness, baby boomers, balloon bicycle tires, Beatles, change, changes, chicken, children, Chinese, compromise, concept, David Bowie, destiny, dilemma, Edd Sullivan, essence, example, fate, fortune, fortune cookie, fundamental, Generation X, Generation Y, Greek philosopher, growing old, healthy, height, Heraclitus, Humor, ideas, internet, life, Methuselah, milk in bottles, milkman, Millennials, moral observations, Netflix, old fart, old-timers, Pac-man, phone booth, Plato, predictiondidactic, Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, rolling stones, rule of thumb, spark plugs, teach, Tetrus, twitter, typewriter, universe, VHS, waist size, written | Leave a comment

Redundancy 101

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Mike Slickster

Let’s take a look at redundancy in writing, shall we? One of the main rules formulated for scribing literature was to do so with the least amount of words. The reason was to minimize the cost for printing, which was … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged author, Beatles, blogs, commentary, editor, English language, essay, faux pas, grammar, grammar police, internet, know-it-alls, literature, neurotic, Paperback Writer, printing, printing press, punctuation, redundancy, sanity, scribing, self-publishing, sentence structure, social media, spelling, Time Magazine, triviality, tweets, twitter, unicorn toast, websites, word count, word processors, wordage, writing | Leave a comment

Death Warmed Over

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Mike Slickster

The above photo has nothing really to do with this essay. I thought it’s a cool shot of the garden above the San Callisto Catacombs in Rome, Italy. The picture is included in the second edition of my first novel, … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Beatles

Delaware River 2021 Preliminary Osprey Count in Lower Bucks, Northeast Philadelphia, and Burlington Counties

Another Essay That’s For The Birds

Music History 101

It’s That Time of Year Again!

A Trivia Quiz About the Dark Ages

Born in the U.S.A.

Groundhog’s Day at a Bald Eagle Festival

Death Warmed Over

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