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A Crock of Schmidt

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The Resurrection of Jake the Snake – review

August 22, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

On April 7th, 1986, my friend and I went to Kitchener Memorial Auditorium to watch Wrestlemania 2 on a “Big Screen Television”.  Ridiculous by today’s home entertainment standards, this was kind of a big deal in the mid-eighties when most people’s rec rooms still housed 4:3 CRT televisions, often dressed up as furniture, and 27” […]

Filed Under: Movie Schmidt Tagged With: addiction, childhood, Jake the Snake Roberts, memories, nostalgia, redemption, wrestling, WWE, WWF

My Life Is A Song #3

May 8, 2015 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

  I grew up in a country home.  This is not a reference to location, though I suppose it was countryish being an acreage on the edge of town surrounded by the sweet and not so sweet aromas of farms.  No, my home was country in a music sense.  Country and Western, in fact, would […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: country, memories, Oak Ridge Boys, parents, Statler Brothers, western

When Santa Made House Calls

December 23, 2014 by acrockofschmidt 3 Comments

Christmas, among its many guises, is foremost a season of nostalgia.  No other holiday draws from the well of tradition quite like Christmas.  The gifts are more numerous, the lights are LED, the songs have been rearranged and the feast has truly become glutinous but all remain echoes of our own past and those of […]

Filed Under: Dad Schmidt Tagged With: Christmas, gifts, memories, Santa, traditions

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