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Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Commercials You Love to Hate

I find it annoying when TV networks advertise products I’m not interested in, such as to lower your life insurance costs. Like this dude named Johnathan who advertises every 10 minutes promoting life insurance for only $9.95 a month. A man says, “I’m over 50, what’s...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Rock N’ Roll Heaven

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Rock N’ Roll Heaven

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, may go down in history as the Day the World Stopped Spinning. For me, it was the day my turntable began spinning out of control, in memory of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, who is likely rockin’ and rollin’ in heaven with his brothers, Carl and...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Wichita Lineman

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Wichita Lineman

I know this sounds repetitious, for we have taken this journey before. It is, of course, the journey that incorporates Southern California Edison’s continued malfeasance in regard to their refusal to bury their powerlines in order to prevent them from falling to the...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Mountaineer Days

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Mountaineer Days

Here it is almost summer and soon it will be time for fun in the sun. What’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys? Why, Mountaineer Days, of course. Back in the early 2000s (2011, to be exact) Crestline celebrated Mountaineer Days with a carnival on Lake Gregory’s south...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Operator

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Operator

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting some very strange phone calls of late, dozens of calls every cotton-pickin’ day, many of which have no one there to talk to. I call them “ghost calls.” I beg them to say something, anything. It’s really annoying when they...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Peaceful Easy Feeling

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott — Peaceful Easy Feeling

I was reading an article about “Glamping” (elegant camping) in Westways the other day… Oh, and for those of you who don’t read, why are you reading this? Anyhoo, it’s a magazine for members of the American Automobile Association (AAA) and it reminded me that the Lake...

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