My mom and brother are in town for a couple days, and yesterday I taught my brother the finer points of grilling. More specifically, I walked him through the joys of smoking ribs for 4 hours and the goodness that comes from making your own barbecue sauce from scratch. This was big for me, because […]
My holiday tradition continued this past year, when the wife and I drove from DC to Kentucky for the holidays. To pass the long hours of driving through the Disneyland of Depression that we commonly know as West Virginia, we listened to a book on tape. We had lots of options this time around, but […]
Here is my last column for 2010. Feels good to have finished my sixth year of writing this column, and I hope 2011 brings more opportunities to expand my column’s reach and audience. The games I reviewed were Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Thanks to the Nashua Telegraph for publishing. […]
Here is my column from just before Christmas. The games I reviewed were Fable III and Gran Turismo 5. Thanks to the Nashua Telegraph for publishing. […]
IFC has recently revived a bunch of great TV shows and is showing them regularly, which is a great chance to find good comedy that some have forgotten or never took the time to appreciate. Larry Sanders, Arrested Development and Freaks & Geeks, just to name a few. Freaks & Geeks is great because of […]
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 […]