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It's a rainy Sunday night so I decided to look around the internet to search out some Hulsey family history. This isn't the first time that I have ever done this, but this is the first time I have opted to share my findings.  On my prior expedition, my wife Terri and I did an extensive full afternoon of tracing the family history back to the middle ages and beyond and discovered some really interesting items. It appears that one of my ancestors was an actual Sheriff of Nottingham for one year and that I am somehow related to the explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, who discovered Cape Cod and named Martha's Vineyard after his daughter. Guess where I'm going to spend my Summer vacation? Anyway, I couldn't find any info on that tonight so I will be posting a follow up later when I get more data on that. What I did find is information on when my Norman ancestors raided and the settled in the United Kingdom. It seems that my ancestors on my father's side were from Norway a...

  Photo By: Ken Hulsey BNSF GP60M locomotive #151 provides the lead power for a local freight rounding a curve in San Dimas, California. It is only fitting that an ex Santa Fe unit leads a train into a town that served as one of the original station stops on the line's transcontinental route from Chicago to Los Angeles. Though over twenty years old the GP60M is still a very active member of the BNSF fleet. In one days time I witnessed the units pulling a mixed freight in Cajon Pass, switching cars in Fullerton (Ca) and, as illustrated here, pulling a local freight in San Dimas. Further to the west these units can normally be seen directly off the 210 freeway switching cars at the Miller brewing plant in Azusa (CA). Check Out: BNSF: Pure Power On Cajon Pass Ghosts Of The Santa Fe Still Haunt La Mirada San Bernardino Railroad Days: Santa Fe 4-8-4 Northern #3751 Photos Ghosts Of The Santa Fe Still Haunt .... The Mojave Desert?

Old Winston-Salem, NC by Ken Hulsey  It has become very apparent to me that the Lord has taken full advantage of my life here in Louisiana to teach me a lot about my life and my faith. To be honest life down here in the South can be hard at times and through those hard times I have learned to trust in God and to remember just how great a blessing some of the most mundane things that we count on every day actually are. Over the past year due to hurricanes and a rogue ice storm many of these basic luxuries like electric power, air conditioning, heat, running water, cable television and internet have been out for prolonged periods of time. The blame for a lot of this can be explained on the terrible condition of infrastructure down here in Louisiana, but that is a gripe for another time and actually isn't my point.  You really don't realize how important air conditioning is until it doesn't work on a day when it's ninety degrees outside and the humidity is around eighty pe...

Dick Giordano cover. Konga story,"The Mole Men!," with Steve Ditko art and inks. Only $16.99 @ Atomic Robot Comics & Toys! Konga was originally a monkey found by Professor Charles Decker. On the same expedition, the professor also acquired a chemical extract from a new species of plant. The chemical made living things grow. Professor Decker tests the formula he created using the chemical on Konga which made him grow and change into a chimp and later a gorilla. The formula has a side effect that allows Konga to read minds and thinking his master wants Dean Foster, a critic of Decker's work, dead, Konga escapes and kills the man. Konga then kills Tagore, an Indian scientist who has achieved success in the same field as Decker and was going public first. Finally, Konga decides to go after Bob, a student who caused the professor's assistant, Sandra, to quit after he proposed to her. However, Decker and his wife Margret realize what has happened and go to stop Konga, b...

 Somewhere out there, presumably still in Hollywood, are a Godzilla and an Anguirus costume waiting to be found.  The story of how these two Toho made monster suits came to reside on American shores is remarkably interesting and filled with a bit of mystery. Back in 1957 Toho was almost to the point of desperation, trying everything that they could to get their movie, "Godzilla Raids Again" released in the United States. A year earlier, the Americanized version of "Gojira", called "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", had done very well at the box office, and the studio wanted to act fast to get its sequel in front of western eyes. At about this same time, Harry Rybnick and Edward Barison of AB-PT Pictures, were working on a monster movie of their own, called "The Volcano Monsters." When the two film makers learned about "Godzilla Raids Again", and Toho's desire to get it released in the states, they decided to approach the studio a...

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 Welcome to this week's edition of Hot Traxx Rewind. Tonight we have a song from a band from Australia, which if you have been paying any attention to these posts over the last couple of weeks shouldn't surprise you at all. In actuality I have been featuring bands from the land down under quite prominently lately.  I will repeat what I posted last week when I featured The Temper Trap's song Fader: I honestly feel that the quality of material coming from that region of the globe is absolutely strong and innovative. Though many of these acts have not caught on here in America (yet) I believe that it is only a matter of time before we have another Aussie Invasion similar to the early 80s when bands like INXS, Midnight Oil, Men at Work and Icehouse all scored hits on the US top 40. I should also point out that this isn't the first time that I have posted about The Preatures either. I have to say that they are one of my favorite bands and I been playing their two albums over...

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