Recent Comments

1. about 5 hours ago on B.C.

   Kathleen Madigan has a routine where she illustrates how a fish being caught and released have a difficult time explaining their experience to their friends which is exactly how humans being released after an alien abduction goes. No one believes them.

2. about 5 hours ago on Next Door Neighbors

   A long time ago and before real M-80s were banned nationwide, my best friend and I mined a rather large dirt portion of my backyard with buried M-80s. We had replaced every fuse with model rocket engine fuses which were all connected to light speaker wire from my dad’s workshop. We then laid out a battlefield of opposing little plastic army men, $0.50 for a bag of 50 at the 5 & Dime store. We planned it all out with a little river with water and boats and then plastic tanks and fighter jets. Then I took the starter battery out of a tractor mower. From the sideline we started touching off the fuse wires. The resulting explosions of the ongoing battle was epic to say the least. After the last M-80 had detonated we were covered in dirt, mud and sweat. Then Ricky’s eyes got as big as saucers, and I realized my dad was standing right behind me. Surprisingly all he said was that this was the most amazing thing he had seen in a long time and that we had to put the battery back in the tractor and clean up our mess. Today of course the concern would be on whether or not we still had our fingers, toes and noses instead of the mess we had made. I will say however that the banning of the real M-80 was not a bad thing. Another of my close childhood friends who was a Chinese refugee who as an infant had escaped with his mother to eventually come to America, had lost three fingers to an M-80 with a fuse that was too short. These are things that people and especially children don’t think about until it happens to them. I know I sure didn’t until it happened to a close friend. I never bought them again.

3. about 6 hours ago on Daddy's Home

   I’ve always been a bourbon guy but this summer I’m going outside my wheelhouse and experimenting with selections from Esquire Magazine’s book “Drink Like a Man”. Tonight, it’s happens to be Anthony Bourdain’s favorite drink, the “Negroni”.

4. about 20 hours ago on Reality Check

   You have to read the package. The one I bought stated that the clear plastic wrappers were 100% biodegradable with a decomposition rate of 3 months. Apparently, enzymes and funguses find them tasty.

5. 2 days ago on Betty

   It is rather impressive how we have been able mostly to feed 8 billion people up to now. It’s going to be even more interesting to see how we handle 10 billion people with climate change added into to mix

6. 2 days ago on B.C.

   I didn’t think the hot paprika was that hot either, but I did find it better than the regular. Of course, it’s all a matter of perspective especially considering Tex-Mex is my primary diet. Bring on the peppers!

7. 2 days ago on B.C.

   No, you’re right, it’s not that hot since it’s made from sweet chili peppers. Very mild spice but great depth of flavor.

8. 2 days ago on Betty

   Well not yet anyway but the Soylent Company does exist now and guess what they make. That’s right, food bars. Who knows what over population and dwindling food sources will bring in the future? Charlton Heston did warn us.

9. 2 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I wasn’t an Old Sea Dog right off the bat either. It took me a while to get my sea legs and certainly not until I had chummed the water a few times getting sick over the gunwales. Sailing the Atlantic is way different than the lakes I had previously been on.

10. 3 days ago on WuMo

    Free apps (with in-app purchases). *Optional unless you want them to work as advertised.