The Wife and I are not particularly neat people. While our personal hygiene is beyond reproach, we have a habit of stacking things in piles around the house and forgetting about them. Dry cleaning has been known to hang on doorknobs for days (weeks) at a time. Old copies of this newspaper tend to collect on my side of the bed, and The Wife hasn’t actually seen the surface of her desk since the first round of the 2014 NBA finals.Throw in two shedding cats and a warren of...
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The very first of the famous “Got Milk?” TV commercials featured a young history geek obsessed with the infamous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.Unable to answer a radio trivia contest because his mouth was glued shut by a glob of peanut butter and his milk glass is empty, the Burr/Hamilton spot was voted one of the top 10 commercials of all time in a USA Today poll. Besides keeping a lot of dairy cows employed, that commercial may well have been...
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I actually opened up the back of the TV cabinet and successfully installed The Wife’s new Amazon Fire TV device. What, you ask, is Amazon Fire TV? I have no idea. But that’s not the point. The point is I actually hooked up a digital device and it works! This is an unprecedented event in my home. For those of you under 35 this might seem like bragging about exhaling, but that’s my brontosaurus parked outside, so cut me some slack. Having grown up with rabbit...
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The S.S. Trump, the once unsinkable juggernaut, is taking on water after a series of self-inflicted torpedoes that have made the most unlikely presidential front-runner a little less likely.If Donald Trump never gets to “make America great again”, the week ending the day after April Fool’s Day will be the one historians point to as his Waterloo.Once again the chattering class claims Trump has “gone too far.” I’m not so sure. He’s...
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They keep on dying. Frank Sinatra Jr., Keith Emerson, Ernestine Anderson, Gogi Grant, Joe Garagiola, Ken Howard and now Garry Shandling. We lost all of them since March 10th!This is shaping up to be the deadliest year in Hollywood since the arrival of talking pictures.Natalie Cole, Pat Harrington Jr., David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Dan Haggerty, Mic Gillette, Glenn Frey, Abe Vigoda, Paul Kantner, Bob Elliott, Maurice White, Dan Hicks, George Gaynes, Harper Lee, George...
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Shamu is now taboo.After fighting off PR blow after PR blow, including CNN’s relentless airings of a damning documentary, “Blackfish”, alleging all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc.’s CEO Joel Manby threw in the towel, announcing the famed marine park would end it’s captive breeding program and phase out all live Orca shows sending 29 killer whales to the unemployment line.SeaWorld surrendered. For the...
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