Bad Odds
Two bad bits of gambling news this week. First off, two West Virginia counties went to the polls to decide whether table games could join slot machines at race tracks…
Now This Is Music!
My friend Dave hit me up with this. Go to www.popculturemadness.com and find the year when you turned 18, then check out the songs that were the top hits. I…
Everybody Into the Pool
Now that school is out, my wife has a dilemma on her hands. She needs to keep an almost 7-year-old occupied all day. We have a few things planned to take care of that. We’ll go to Hersheypark one day. Bridget will go to day camp for one week. And we have our annual family beach trip.
But she’ll also hopefully start to enjoy something which kept me out of trouble and saved my mother’s sanity for many years.
The swimming pool.
Rock On, Regular Guy!
I have dreams. Big dreams. I want to play the guitar. To some, that might not seem like that big of a dream. But I have pretty much no musical ability whatsoever, so playing the guitar represents a big dream for me.
With such a handicap, some might wonder why I have this dream. Well, first of all, I like a challenge. Second of all, I still have part of that 14-year-old who wants to rock living inside of me.
Top 5 Concert Songs
Now this is the kind of weather I can get behind. When the sun shines like this, all I can think of are care free days, drinking something cold and listening to good music. While I generally abhor columns that are lists, I couldn’t resist this time. I wish I have had more to choose from, but here are the top five songs I have ever seen in concert.
Biko, Peter Gabriel: My buddy Paul and I totally lucked out with outstanding seats for this show in 1987 at Meriweather Post Pavilion.
We Need Gladiators
You hear a lot of commentary from various sources about the social problems facing our country. People worry about the decline of the family, loosening moral values, and the loss of basic concern for others.
Critics of modern society try and point the finger at different sources. Some blame video games. Some blame the culture of celebrity. Others blame permissive parents.
I think something else has caused all the problems we face every day. I blame the people who decided to take “American Gladiators” off the air more than 10 years ago.
Greatest Mall Ever
When I went away last weekend, I got a chance to look around the greatest mall in the world. Skymall.
Those of you who have never flown need to check this place out. If you have flown and don’t love Skymall – what is wrong with you?
Imagine sitting comfortably looking at the most incredibly cool items ever. Multiply that by 10 and you have Skymall.
My Internet Friends
I have a confession to make. This shouldn’t worry me since I have admitted it to other people and not had any problems. I just feel so self-conscious whenever I come out and say it. I have Internet friends.
There, I said it. I feel better now. I can go on feeling just as confident about myself as I did before I said it.
I can, right?
Dining Etiquette
Sometimes people complain that our lawmakers pay too much attention to frivolous laws. I tend to agree. I saw something last weekend that requires immediate legislative action. Enough of worrying about healthcare and education and public safety.
We need to take care of dining etiquette.
Go Away Harry Potter
As a writer and a parent, I think people should do everything in their power to encourage children to read. But I have had it up to here with this Harry Potter stuff. I have to say right off the bat that I have never read any of the Potter books. I have no doubt that adults can enjoy the books as much as youngsters, but I just don’t have that much interest in fantasy.
Besides, the insanity surrounding these things is just getting to be too much.