Around midnight tonight, while most people are shooting off fireworks, banging pots and pans or twirling celebratory ratchets, I may opt. instead. for The Twelve Lucky Grapes. No, this is not the name of an unsuccessful Motown act from 1968 or the title of director Peter Jackson’s planned ...
Ghosts of Christmases past came a-haunting a few weeks ago when I saw on a friend’s Facebook page a picture of himself portraying an elf in our third-grade Christmas pageant, “The Night before Christmas,” in 1957. Problem was, I should have been standing to his right, dressed as Santa. ...
Don’t you hate it when this happens? You run over a curb and puncture the sidewalls of two almost-new tires. You drop your car keys into a sewer without having a second set ensconced in a magnetic case under a fender. Your chewing gum loses its flavor on the bedpost overnight. Yeah, me ...
Those who read this column regularly know I am fascinated by studies, in particular, studies that prove the obvious.So, I’m happy to report as we near Thanksgiving – traditionally spent in warm, fuzzy moments with family and friends – a study conducted by a German magazine reveals 5 ...
Now that the Christmas shopping season is in full swing, I’m going to skip my usual yuletide tradition of complaining about how early the season begins. Instead, I’ll skip right to my annual yuletide tradition of recommending stupid gifts.Before I start, though, let me renew my annual ...
Gimme an E. Gimme a B. Gimme an O. Gimme an L. Gimme an A. What’s that spell?Big profits for one enterprising manufacturer.Over the weekend various media sources reported Giant Microbes, a Connecticut-based company, sold out of its line of plush Ebola dolls, which includes both standard ...
