Jim Nolan's Blog

The Right to Bear Beef-On-Weck

You'll take my Anderson's custard when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Photo from roadfood.com

Click here to hear The Right To Bear Beef-On-Weck

Wind Song Perfume Audio Essay

Like the Windsong jingle, Emilio Pucci stays on my mind.

 

Click to hear Your Wind Song Stays On (What's Left of) My Mind

Kodachrome Treasure Box

Dad and Mom gave me an old metal box of Kodachromes from Hawaii in the late 1950s. Here's  their story.

ABBA Movie Audio Essay

My cartoonist wife's take on our family viewing of "Mamma Mia." See more at thesixchix.com

Click here to hear "Mamma Mia Is My Waterloo"

 

 

Rope Tow Audio Essay

I thought rope tows had been outlawed years ago by the Red Cross.

Rope Tow Rope-A-Dope

 

Blame WKBW

Say what you will about Jim Nabors, but that's a really nice-looking jacket. 

Blame WKBW

Scrapbooking, 1929

My grandmother, Isabel Curry Nolan, lost her father to lightning, her brother to a sniper, and kept the rest of her life locked up in scrapbooks. 

 

 

May 28, 1918

 

Buffalo Forge Grill Audio Essay

Matt Georger and his refurbished Buffalo Forge Grill.

Forged In Buffalo

Battle of the Blankets

Evidence of my cartoonist wife's blanket-stealing expertise. Here she is trying to educate other women in the dark art.

Battle of the Blankets