Territorial Bloggings

NYC: Welcome to the Freak Show…
35 golden tickets out of an undisclosed number of auditions.
We saw 10 of the 35, including two Jersey Girls — one of whom is both hotter & more talented than the other, which is fun because it ain’t the “she has training!” queen bee - there’s some Hollywood drama [...]

January 24, 1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

WDTM? The two most significant decisions at Casablanca were the demand of an unconditional surrender by the Axis, and the agreement to aid the Soviets. Thus began the journey down the slippery slope of FDR thinking [...]

Mercifully, we only spent a single hour in Memphis. I know I differ from a great many folks on this subject, but I’m really not that much of a fan of the audition phase of AI. I don’t (like seems to be trendy among the easily offended this year) find the proceedings particularly cruel; neither [...]

January 23, 1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
WDTM? That every four years, there’s the potential for the week of my birthday to be ruined by Presidential elections. Even worse, every 28 years there’s the possibility that my birthday itself [...]