Category: Candidates USA book

“EiBrot” (egg sandwich) Part 1 — for breakfast every weekend for 60 years

by lcarlson | Dec 24, 2020 | Blog, Calendar 2021, Candidates USA book | 0

One of the best-ever DMC membership applications: Manfred Heinze in Germany has the same breakfast...

Carhenge — Nebraska’s version of Stonehenge

by lcarlson | May 30, 2021 | Candidates USA book, Test Category | 0

Johnnie Meier’s “Classical Gas Museum”

by lcarlson | Mar 14, 2016 | Candidates USA book | 0

Johnnie Meier has been fascinated with cars and motoring his entire life. What particularly fascinates him is the “road culture” — gas pumps and signage along roads everywhere as well as neon signs, oil cans, maps, soda coolers...

Louis Pearl: “The Amazing Bubble Man”

by lcarlson | Jul 28, 2016 | Candidates USA book, Celebrating the Ordinary in America | 0

Most bubbles lead boring lives. But not bubbles in Louis Pearl’s “Amazing Bubble Show.” It’s where bubbles show their stuff. Louis is a performance artist, often performing for children. Instead of trying to dazzle...

Ron Wallace – Guinness World Records for Giant Pumpkins

by lcarlson | Mar 14, 2016 | Candidates USA book | 0

Ron Wallace from Greene, Rhode Island is the first person in the world to grow a pumpkin weighing over a ton. In 2012 he grew a 2,009-pound pumpkin. This was the Holy Grail of giant pumpkin growing — it was what breaking the...

Sad News from Covent Garden: The Great Christmas Pudding Race 2020 has been canceled

by lcarlson | Nov 25, 2020 | Blog, Calendar 2021, Candidates USA book | 0

Due to COVID-19, the 2020 Christmas Pudding Race has been canceled. The race will take place again...

World Premier tonight: Road Sign Spotter, Madeline Adkins, performing at Wolf Trap in Virginia — performing a violin concerto she commissioned about Utah — she will also be appearing, with her road signs, in our 2022 calendar

by lcarlson | Jun 24, 2021 | Calendar 2021, Candidates USA book | 0

Wolf Trap — 1551 Trap Road Vienna, VA 22182 Click here for details about the event including a...

Albert Einstein
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness”

~ Albert Einstein
Edward R. Murrow
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”

~ Edward R. Murrow
Hoagy Carmichael
"Slow motion gets you there faster"

~ Hoagy Carmichael
Marilyn Thomsen
"While it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfilment in being ordinary"

~ Marilyn Thomsen
testi 1
“We’re giving a good name to a four-letter word — dull”
testi 2
“Glitz and glam — not worth the bother”
testi 3
“We don’t try to keep up with the Joneses — who are the Joneses anyway?”
testi 4
“Time is a great invention — it’s what keeps everything from happening all at once”
Will Rogers
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there”

~ Will Rogers