I have to say, thus far my 2010 is closing strong. And one main reason for this is that Tuesday I clinched the championship in the Mud, Sweat & Tears fantasy football title. This is a special title on many levels. For one, I won the league in a year in which my buddy Dan, […]
I have a bone to pick with Nic Cage. When I went to see the new Harry Potter movie, we saw a trailer for Season of the Witch, the new Nic Cage movie that looks about as awful as can be (he snarls, he speaks in terrible fake accents, he snarls and screams, etc.). When […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve greened my mother, so it’s time to bring back this popular feature, which is more about passing along green/eco tips to everyone, but putting my mother in the spotlight because … well … it’s always enjoyable to poke fun at my mom. She knows it’s from a place of love. […]
Normally I don’t pay much attention to the halftime band at a college football game. Like everyone else, I’ll enjoy the drumline do their thing and bust out a beat and be all cool. But most of the time the music is so-so and the choreography is suspect. Not so with this band. They decided […]
The wife and I recently blew through all two seasons of Parks & Recreation. The show is great, but it’s anchored by the character of Ron Swanson, a libertarian who runs the Parks & Rec department who loathes government. It’s just fantastic that his mantra is his hatred of government that allows people to be […]
I know I’m rather “bah humbug” about the holidays. Look, I just don’t get that worked up about them. Sorry, it’s just the way it is. But a week ago when I was driving with the wife to run a few errands, NPR replayed a story they ran back in 2008 that just floored me. […]
This is another post from the Hawaii files. And, sadly, this one involves UK fans. Because I have to be honest, even my beloved state produces people that are idiots. Wait a minute, this is not news to me or anyone. The UK-Washington game was a fantastic basketball game and naturally we had wonderful seats. […]
This is a post from the Hawaii files. I snapped a pic of this idiot as we were sitting down at Mama’s Fish House to eat our Thanksgiving meal. Yeah, seafood on Thanksgiving, I know it sounds sacrilegious, but you have to be religious for that shit to matter to you. And I’m not, so […]
On my Hawaiian vacation, I was able to bang through one more book, a fantastic book called The Big Burn. I read one of Timothy Egan’s previous nonfiction title, The Worst Hard Time, which was about as depressing as it could get in terms of fully describing the hell a group of over a large […]
While I do allow myself the occasional dabble into the fiction realm, everyone by now knows my love for reading nonfiction, especially stuff that relates to food and to specific moments throughout history and their impact on the greater world or society as a whole. After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma last year, I knew I […]