R.A.D.S. Last week that acronym came up in my life. And if you’ve dealt with it, you know what a nuisance (at best) it can be. The letters stand for “Reactive Airways Disease Syndrome.” But regardless of what you call it, I can tell you it’s absolutely no fun when you can’t breathe normally. You don’t know how vital it is to breathe … The rest of the story…
Comic books were a really big deal to a lot of other guys I knew when I was a kid. And I remember going to a couple of my friends’ houses and being amazed at how many boxes of comic books they had. Every once in a great while, I’d get one. Or I’d spend some time reading theirs. But not for long. And … The rest of the story…
Duct tape. Concrete patch kit. Bandaid. What do those three things have in common? Each one is a temporary fix. And they’re awesome for doing what they were designed to do. But when you use them, you know (at least you understand somewhere way back in the corner of your mind) that you’re gonna have to deal with the real problem sooner or later. … The rest of the story…
Dazed and confused. You could use that phrase to describe somebody who just survived a car crash. Or maybe somebody who’s just lost a loved one. And you could even use it to describe most people who get their information (and base their worldview) mostly from the well-known news sources. Who wouldn’t be dazed and confused with all that misinformation? Well, for starters…anyone … The rest of the story…
Since I’m more known for composing (music), it might seem a little weird for me to talk about decomposing. But here I am talking about it. And I’m guessing that you might already be aware of how your DNA starts decomposing the moment you die. Am I right? Well, it does. And apparently before 1990 almost no one believed DNA could be more than … The rest of the story…
It feels like I’ve written 1800 notes to my friends. And maybe that’s because this is my 1800th article here on TonyFunderburk.com And, believe it or not, TonyFunderburk.com isn’t my first website, even though it’s 12 1/2 years old. Plus, for a long time, it wasn’t the website I wrote on most of the time. Because it was supposed to be my “artist/musician/performer” site. … The rest of the story…
Think you’re having a bad day? Or week? Or month? Well, how would you like to set a record while the world is watching? But then you go out a few days later and lose, big time, while the world is still watching. Now, that’s a bad day. Babe Ruth set a record in a baseball game almost a hundred years ago. He … The rest of the story…
Steve Jobs certainly had an interesting life. And a productive one. I don’t think you could find many who would disagree with that. After all, he had quite an impact on how we use technology now. In fact, I know a lot of my readers and listeners might be reading or listening to this on a device Steve helped create. And on October … The rest of the story…
It was only 22 inches around. And it only weighed 184 pounds. But it might as well have been a lead weight the size of Pluto. Because the news and reports of it fell on America like a lead weight. And it had the cutest, little name. Sputnik. On this day, October 4, back in 1957, Russian launched Sputnik into space. It zoomed … The rest of the story…