Steve Vogel's Clippings

Love of one’s work is a blessing. Success at one’s work compounds the fulfillment. Those thoughts come to mind as friend and colleague Dick Luedke looks back on his career as he reaches a milestone:https://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/illinois-state/dick-luedke-kitchen-to-courtside-a-dream-journey-to-redbird/article_9d8ac17c-9590-5e7c-bfe4-729a4130bc68.html#utm_source=pantagraph.com&utm_campaign=%2Femail-updates%2Fdaily-headlines%2F%3Fid%3D90&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FB62D3928CCBEE5EF3E30FA15DB19B29DAAA38CD

It was October of 1982. Jefferson Starship–complete with Kantner and Grace Slick–was launching a 20-day tour with a concert at Illinois State University. A local minister, Rev. Wesley Ates of the First Pentecostal Church in Bloomington, Ill., had claimed the devil spoke backwards on Beatles records and urged people to attend his prayer service rather …

Whether you’re a big fan of libraries or just like to fantasize about the “Room of Requirement” in the Harry Potter books, I promise you’ll love this episode of “This American Life.” If you’re a librarian, it’s “must” listening.  A children’s librarian?  Especially Act Three. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/664/the-room-of-requirement

“We’re having to eat some humble stew.” That assessment came from Noah, sitting a couple bar seats away as the clock wound down on Alabama’s scoreless second half and Clemson was about to complete a stunning rout of the Crimson Tide and be crowned as the nation’s best.  The final score on the big TV …