Blogoversary Week

Happy Blogoversary...to me! Two years ago this week, this blog was born. It started out as "Just Cruisin'" and yours truly was known as the Greying One. The blog helped me through 7 months of chemo-therapy and a stem cell transplant, documenting my journey but also sharing humourous items from e-mails and the internet that struck my fancy. It wasn't quite as good as the drugs, but it was theraputic nonetheless. Once I'd 'just cruised' into recovery the blog morphed into nonamedufus and it focussed less on health and more on humour, advertising and music. And what started as an information source for family and friends - perhaps a dozen or so people - has turned into a blog frequented by 150 or so folks daily.

So as we head towards the true anniversary of April 25, later this week, I thought I'd highlight some of my favourite posts from the last two years. So sit back and enjoy!

Here's the first ad I ran on April 25, 2007...

Given the state of my health back then, this sign made obvious sense to me...

And here's one of the first music videos I shared...by a geriatric set known as The Zimmers:

The oldest and greatest rock band in the world - Meet The Zimmers - and their amazing cover of The Who's "My Generation". Lead singer Alf is 90 - it's quite something when he sings "I hope I die before I get old". And he's not the oldest - there are 99 and 100-year-olds in the band!The Zimmers will feature in a BBC TV documentary being aired in May 2007. Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over Britain recruiting isolated and lonely old people - those who can't leave their flats or who are stuck in rubbish care homes.The finale of the show is this group of lonely old people coming together to stick it back to the society that's cast them aside - by forming a rock troupe and trying to storm into the pop charts.Some massive names from the pop world have thrown their weight behind The Zimmers... The song is produced by Mike Hedges (U2, Dido, Cure), the video shot by Geoff Wonfor (Band Aid, Beatles Anthology), and it was recorded in the legendary Beatles studio 2 at Abbey Road.

The embedding's been disabled so you have to follow the link. But click through; it's an absolute hoot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY

In July 07 I found the site http://despair.com/indem.html and shared the following posters...

More to come!

30 Days of Photos III #4 Sour

Check out Ziva's Inferno for the rest of today's photos.

My Back Pages - November

I know, I know, I know I should have reported in before now. But sometimes real life just gets in the way. I attempted 5 books in November. I say attempted because I slapped a big DNF (did not finish) on Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I just can't seem to get into this guy. It's the second or third of his I've given up on, Not so the other four, starting with a biography of Stephen Stills called Change Partners. This followed by a hilarious biography of the guy responsible for National Lampoon called A Stupid and Futile Gesture - How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever. I ended the month reading yet another biography, this one of the man behind Rolling Stone magazine,. It was called Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine. A fascinating read. So last month I hit the magic number 50 I'd imagined for myself back in January. If I roll this month into my yearly total I'm at 54 books. And I still hav...

The Polka Dot Door

A long time ago, when I was 22, my first child was born. That kid grew up on a little Canadian kid's show called Polka Dot Door, produced by the TV Ontario network. And Dad, more often than not, sat through those shows with his little one. Nine or so years later when a brother, and a year after that when a sister came along number one son was moving on to Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazzard. But there was a nice overlap where his siblings picked up where he had left off with Polka Dot Door. And Dad was right there to welcome them. So you're looking at a Polka Dot Door veteran. The show began in 1971 and ran to 1993. I didn't watch the full run but I did get in my fair share. The formula was pretty simple. A young male and female host, which seemed to change every week, sang songs, told stories, made crafts and generally did their best stimulate little brains. The show opened as follows... Imagination Day! Oh boy! ...

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