Below is a reprint of a piece I wrote in 2005. I could not believe it was that long ago: I thought it was maybe a couple of years. I lost a ...

One of my fave-fave ads. Took me 2 years to find it.

Don't know what it is, but me likes. Used in an ad for, I think, Sear's, a few years back. Don't say there's no original Xma...

A while ago I discovered, to my utter dismay, that the domain name for my web site had been stolen by a Japanese shoe company. (No, I'm ...

OK, I don't exactly expect you to read all this stuff. Most movies have little inconsistencies that only the most OCD-infested person wo...

This thing comes on every year and I get caught up in it, even worse than Taxi Driver . And I forget every year that it's the longest, m...

At this festive time of year, when our brains all turn to mush, it's nice to reflect on Christmases past. Isn't it? No? OK, but I...

I don't think I've laughed like this in years. Guess I have a primitive sense of humour.

That last post left, shall I say, a bad taste in my mouth. But I couldn't help it. I was watching a National Geographic special (God kno...

Bog Butter Mystery Solved? (Not written by me, but by somebody in the UK. I have to give credit where it's due.) For many years farmers...

Weird things happen at Christmas. Many of them are predictable. Every year, women's magazines run articles about How To Beat That Holid...

First heard about these guys on ABC's Nightline. It's a new phenomenon (or not-so-new, growing organically out of break dancing, mim...

This is one of those weird things. An ad has been running for Glade air fresheners in "holiday" scents, presumably cinnamon and sa...

It's just that kind of a day. I don't know if it's the time of year (or maybe it's the time of man). Looking out my window ...

I wasn't expecting to actually find it. I have sheafs of old poems in a file drawer, probably hundreds of them, many handwritten or type...

I don't know what to say about John Lennon. I don't know what to say about Christmas, except that it's coming at me like a freig...

I'm not much when I first wake up in the morning, but I had to be up today. My daughter-in-law was stopping by this morning to pick up a...

It has come home to me once again that life can be overwhelmingly difficult, even crushing. I see, looking back, that I have a certain tende...

Like a lot of boomers, I remember the Sonny and Cher Show, which got more painful as time went on. Cher was already beginning to look embal...

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