Monthly Archives: November 2010

Apple jacks don’t taste remotely like apples. In fact if you scan the ingredients on a box of the sugary salty breakfast concoction you will discover apples way down on the list. The Kellogg Company (K E double L good … Continue reading →

My Sons are all wired in to the internet so completely that I thought I was doing a great thing. One year for my older guy’s birthday I sent an email birthday card instead of the old snail mail one. … Continue reading →

You know what I am referring to, right? Captain Kirk, Spock and some unfortunate crew member in a red shirt would stand on the transporter pad and shout at Scotty to “energize”. Scotty would twiddle some knops and pull some … Continue reading →

Did you ever get a song stuck in your head for days at a time? Most of us have. Why is it that it’s always the dumbest song? “It’s a small world after all”  comes to mind. NOT THAT SONG … Continue reading →

At the risk or bringing down the gods of clichés on my head I want to say here and now. Thank God it’s Friday. I won’t even abbreviate it to TGIF because that’s now a restaurant  with wait persons who … Continue reading →

That’s what they called what we know of as Halloween back in the early days of Christianity. Truth be told it goes back even further than that. The Halloween observance originated with the Celtic Druids around 700 B.C. The Druids … Continue reading →

In this day and age something for nothing is almost too good to be true. When I was in college the bar across from my dorm offered free lunch. Two things were wrong. The lunch was usually so salt intensive … Continue reading →

When Osama and his band of demented henchmen drove airplanes into American Icons they changed our lives forever. But try as they might, the evil that exists in the world is not as strong as we are. Take the humble … Continue reading →

The following is an unpaid advertisement for the Bloomsburg Fair. I guess that there is a certain segment of the population that goes to the Bloomsburg Fair for the exhibits. Lord knows there are enough of them. Farm implements, offers … Continue reading →

For those of you who don’t like the red fruit I apologize. And I know you are out there. Just check tomatoesareevil.com for fascinating facts. Like for a long time tomatoes were not eaten by Europeans but grown as ornamental … Continue reading →