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Like Dick Proenneke before him, Joe Bussard is a man after my own heart.

Photos Of 2008

This one goes up today because, well, until midnight on December 31st you never know what wonderful photo you might take, soo...

When I compiled all my favorite photos from 2008 into one folder to post on here I realized, we've had a very long year, and the photos I was choosing to represent 2008were many. Some of them are just nice photos, but most are just candids taken at a moment that we hold dear or may have a funny story behind it and may not give you even the slightest emotional response, but that's okay. I cut a bunch out, most that had been post on here already thru the year, so if you feel like you're missing out, feel free to browse back thru 2008 to see all our photos of the year. You might not be completely disappointed.

More On Paul Mawhinney

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Amazing & Sad.

And You People Thought I Was Bad

Paul Mawhinney is my hero. For the past 60 years he has been collecting music and this guy's managed to gather over 3 million records, cds, 78's & 45's in what can officially be called "The World's Greatest Music Collection". Full of rock, jazz, country, even new age & Christmas stuff, the collection includes every release that helped shape or define music thru the 20th century, and then some.

Several albums are worth hundreds and thousands of dollars on their own, and Mawhinney estimates the entire collection to be worth over 50 million dollars. That's one old nestegg. Which makes me wonder why he just sold the whole thing on eBay for only $3,002,150.00. I guess that's just as good. And it gives me something to shoot for. Of course in fifty years albums and cds will be so obsolete that they'll either be worthless or priceless. I guess we'll hafta wait and see. And in the meantime I can get me a nice little library with one of those sliding ladders like my boy Paul.