Room Service, Please
I had to travel for work this week. I don’t get to do it often so I didn’t really mind leaving my wife and daughter behind for two nights. Besides, I got to stay in a hotel room all by […]
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
Ever since I heard that Kevin Spacey intended to make a movie version of Ben Mezrich‘s book “Bringing Down the House,” I knew I would want to go see it. I really enjoyed the book (even though it is coming […]
Coors Light: Still Bad For You
I have so many problems with Coors Light. I can’t stand how they take a really bad beer best suited for women and people who don’t want to taste what real beer should taste like and then market it toward […]
College Memories Return
When I started looking at colleges a bunch of years ago, I wanted a place where I could wrestle, use my writing skills and set myself up for a job after graduation. I also one other very important criteria – […]
My Cha Cha Slide Debut
I try not to let too many rules run my life. I am somewhat set in my ways, but I like adapting to new situations as they present themselves. I knew a lot of that would change when we started […]
ITEOTWAWKI: Happy Birthday, KO
Kathleen O’Brien Layson has a birthday today. I have no idea how old she is. I have never met her. But the party she threw for herself in 1980 – when I was 11 years old – changed the face […]
Play It Loud
Thanks to my obsession with R.E.M., Accelerate‘s tidy running time of around 40 minutes and the fact I heard it for free a week before its official release on iLike, I have listened to the new album more than a […]
Worst Day Ever
Nothing really bad has happened today or will happen as far as I know with the exception of people trying to be funny with over-the-top fake stories because it’s April Fool’s Day. The problem with many of these efforts is […]
Start the Day Right
The culinary world suffered a big loss the other day. Herb Peterson, the man who invented the Egg McMuffin, died. In 1972, Peterson changed life as we know it by deciding that you could have a sandwich for breakfast. The […]