I’ve made it no secret: I am a huge movie buff and were I forced to decide on my top twenty-five or fifty movies, half would have some connection to Clint Eastwood. He’d either be in them, have directed them, written them, or all of the above. And that would be excluding all the classic […]
I recently read an article about a Starbucks attorney sending a Cease-and-Desist letter to a small brewpub in Bumfish, U.S.A. It seems the brewmaster/owner splashed one stout beer (Founders Breakfast Stout) on top of the brewery’s vanilla crème ale and, voila!, some customers claimed it reminded them of a Frappuccino™. The owner then listed the beer combination […]
My wife and I were recently watching Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Whether or not you are a huge sports fan, it is a tremendous show because of the serious world issues, questions, etc. it addresses, albeit from a sporting angle. One of the stories had to do with the fairly recent usage, umbrage, and […]
I intended to blog on Thanksgiving—any excuse in the eye of the blog storm, where there are NO POSTS—but when my Dallas Cowboys finally pulled their collective heads out of the Devil’s…I mean, primo narcissist, Jerry Jones’ arsehole, and started putting away the lowly Raiders, I became too involved with watching that and stuffing my […]
I remember a time when I truly believed that the television sucked brain cells from my head and spat them on the floor where they eventually dried up like only so many dust mites. And I’m not saying it wasn’t true (or that my parents were completely wrong). But it’s not the case any longer, […]
Wow. Well, this is a record for a dearth of blogging. I could’ve crossed the Sahara and back again, sans water, and the vultures would have been blogging more than yours truly. I’d say “sorry”, but that seems capricious; I’d say you never missed me, but that hurts my feelings too much. So I’ll just […]
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