My name is Jim Hendrickson and I have list of things I am trying to collect and it must be complete,my friends have called me a completeist(my spelling)for many years and this is my blog. I cover just about everything, so you never know what will show up here. I have very eclectic taste ranging from pop music to history to horse racing and many more things that catch my interest. Come along and see whats out there.
The new #1 Fiction bestseller this is week is the latest from Lee Child. 61 Hours (A Jack Reacher Novel) . This is Lee Child's 3rd novel to reach the top of the NYTimes Bestseller list, following his previous books Gone Tomorrow in May 2009 and his first #1 novel Nothing To Lose in June 2008.
This week we go to the trailer park to mark the 27th anniversary of the opening day of "Return of the Jedi".
This was the 3rd in the Star Wars Trilogy released between 1977 and 1983. This would set the record for opening day box office with $6,219,629.00 and eventually grossing over $475 million dollars world wide and is currently the 83rd biggest movie of all time. With the inflation ajusted totals it ranks 15th alltime with $474,772,300 and only 3 spots behind "The Empire Strikes Back".
This last Saturday in Spain a bullfighter was gored by a bull, not much news there, this happens. However this time it was the way he was gored and that he walked away, injured but alive.
here is a clip from my favorite episode from season 3. Sheldon gets drunk and has a melt down Jim Parson proves why he as Sheldon is on the road to Barney Fife immortality. This has one of the best cast in comedy today.
Just saw this article thanks to a facebook friend and wanted to pass it on. I had not heard about this but that doesn't mean anything since for the last few days I haven't watched much tv or read many newspapers. Here is the news, the Smothers Brothers announce their retirement from the stage of there current Las Vegas show.
Today 20 years ago we lost Mr. Entertainment, Sammy Davis Jr. to throat cancer. He was one of the most versatile performers ever. He made movies, danced, had a #1 single on the Hot 100 and was a member of the legendary Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford. They ruled Vegas in the 1960s. A great to way to celebrate Sammy, Don Rickles roasting him on the Dean Martin Roast.
The new #1 book atop the NY Times Non Fiction list is the new memoir from former first lady Laura Bush, Spoken From the Heartdebuts at #1 this week. Its been almost 7 years since a first lady had a #1 bestseller, that was Living History by former first lady Hillary Clinton in 2003. Also debuting this week on the non fiction list in the top ten areMom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps. It comes in at #5 while new at #7 is The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick, subtitled Custer, Sitting Bull and The Battle of Little Big Horn. Coming into the 8th spot is Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern and the last of the debut books is My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster.
However his biggest success and fame came from a 1957 novel titled By Love Possessed. A novel about 49 hours in the life of one man, a leading lawyer, Arthur Winner Jr., in a small town and the women he loves. His only #1 NY Times Bestseller, it spent nearly 6 months in the top spot. The novel was awarded the Howells prize in 1960, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous 5 years.
A recluse, the author did give an interview to TIME magazine in September of 1957 and was entitled "The Hermit of Lambertville".
I LOVE the cartoons where Bugs is chased by Gossamer because you know you are going to see beautican Bugs. This makes me laugh every time. Classic stuff.
Today in 1919 Sir Barton won the Kentucky Derby, he would go on to win the Preakness and Belmont Stakes that same year and many people didn't realize it but he would become known as the first Triple Crown winner in US horse racing history. There wasn't a "Triple Crown" in 1919, it didnt become know as that until the 1930s, but the 3 biggest and oldest races had never been won in the same year by one horse.
This week again we see a new novel atop the NY Times Fiction Bestseller list, an old favorite returns, its James Patterson. He brings the latest installment to the Women's Murder Club series, 9th Judgement. This is the 8th Women's Murder Club novel to hit the top spot with only the seventh installment, 7th Heaven, not going to number one.
From 1950, an episode of The Jack Benny Program, Jack Goes Christmas Shopping. You just cant beat this for classic laughs. I love the whole cast and show.
Tonight the baseball world lost one its greatest people and announcers, Ernie Harwell. Play by play voice of the Detroit Tigers for 42 years passed away tonight at the age of 92.
The 1964 Derby was highlighted by the first win for a Canadian horse at the Derby. That horse was the legendary Northern Dancer. He would go on to become the most successful sire of the 20th century. He won the Derby in the record time of 2 minutes flat. That record stood until 1973 when "the living, breathing locomotive" Secretariat ran the course in 1 min 59.4 seconds. The only horse to break the 2 min barrier since 1973 was Monarchos in 2001 with a winning time of 1 min 59.97 secs. Called the Sire of Champions Northern Dance sired 147 stakes winners including the great Nijinsky II who was the last horse to win England's Triple Crown in 1970. One of his other sons Northern Taste was the leading sire in Japan for 10 years. Northern Dancer was retired from stud in 1987 and died in 1990.
