The Recovering Hopper

  I n November of 1697, two glowing wheels are seen in the skies over Hamburg, Germany.   In November of 1896, a wave of mysterious “air...

  I discovered another connection I have with a celebrity from days of old. Much like that time I stumbled over Lee Harvey Oswald’s library ...

Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic? A: Somebody who stays up all night torturing h...

My children: “Bro, can I have a play date with Amanda?” My mom: “Hi, bro, just want to know if your family is still coming ...

Last night I dreamt something I think you’d agree is truly weird. … and horrible … It started out innocently enough. Let th...

What’s on deck, Hopper? Well, I try to post something every other day or so, but usually I’m not successful. It’s mostly due to busy...

50 years ago today, Roger Patterson filmed a Sasquatch meandering through a dried river bed in Bluff Creek, California. Patterson, who...

No, this is not a post related to today’s date. This happened a half-hour ago, as me and Patch arrived back home after some errands. ...

... about a low-flying helicopter. Especially one that’s flying low right above your head. Yesterday I was driving home from work in ...

Though, in all fairness, I only saw it this morning with a fully-dressed-and-prepped-for-school-at-six-forty-five-a.-m. Patch. The Amazi...

Yep, that’s us down at the lake, in an on-the-spot sketch done by Little One. Mrs. Hopper’s grilling up them Oscar Meyers, Patch (n...

T omorrow will be my first day at the new job, the first real job I’ve worked at in a year. So today, naturally, I had to watch both gir...

Similar to that fine line between Genius and Stupidity, the exists an even more rarefied and nebulous border betwixt the Nerdy and the Co...

Stared at this painting for three hours today. In four forty-five minute increments. Dunno, just kept coming back to it. ...

Found this while bopping about the Internet at lunch time today … a doodle done by Lyndon B. Johnson while a member of Congress.     ...

Woke up at 3:30 this morning and found myself unable to get back to sleep.  So, like I often do, I tiptoe down into my basement writing o...

by Dickens, and Robinson Crusoe , by Daniel Defoe, were the two books I picked up at one of the local library during my weekly errands wi...

Every October the owners of a house a couple of towns over erect a haunted maze in their backyard.  It’s not-for-profit, just for-fun, an...