Buddy's Blog

A couple days ago I went with friends to the McClellen Gallery in Saint Petersburg. I was blown away. Over the years I’ve collected glass, but this stuff makes mine look like K-Mart water pitchers. Absolutely exquisite. The gallery is like a museum. Many of the pieces are in the thousands of dollars, and they look it. Here are just a few of the photos I took:

Not only do they sell glass, they blow it. Two glass blowers were there making a glass vase. Lips all full of blisters. Tomorrow I’ll post a video.

  Went bowling last night. I soon regained my old form:

High score 53.

This story is from 2013. Dr. Pork is performing an appendectomy. Or a spleenectomy. Or a brainectomy. All the same to him.You may know that he received his M.D. at the University of Tortola School of Medicine.

Somebody tried to hack my site again, so it was shut down yesterday.  This is from 2010…

I had another hacking attempt and my site was shut down.

My mother and Jimmy Carter some years ago…

Thank you for your condolences. She wanted elective shoulder surgery. I and all her friends tried to talk her out of it. There were many complications. And I just learned that an old friend of mine passed away two days earlier. He had elective knee surgery. One would think that doctors should know when the risk is too great. Sadly many physicians are more interested in the bottom line. I know that when I was teaching physics at the University of Georgia in 1972-1973 the worst cheaters were the pre-med students. I don’t mean to malign all doctors, but there are many who shouldn’t be practicing.

I told you before that my sister was the audio engineer in New Orleans, first at Cosimo Recording Studios and then at Alan Toussaint’s Sea-Saint studios. She had many wonderful stories. Like when Paul McCartney flew her and the crew out to San Francisco for dinner on his private jet.  I have three Paul and Linda autographs.  I came across another: