I was surfing through an article about restaurant chains that are no longer with us when I found one that surprised me. I wasn’t at all shocked to see Burger Chef, which was probably the worst of the big chains, or Sambo’s, which was sort of the racisr version of Denny’s. But when Red Barn …
Movies used to be so much more fun. Sorry for the “old man rants” lede, but the way films were made — and released — in the pre-blockbuster era was a lot more subtle and it gave us a feeling of curiosity and of anticipation as we waited to see them. From age 13 to …
Want a shock? Or maybe just a surprise? Well, you might not be surprised at all to discover that Americans — actually North Americans, but we can’t blame this on the Mexicans — are the fattest people in the world. Not including children, counting only adults 20 and older, the average American man weighs 198 …
One of those goofy Facebook things from five years ago. My answers, along with a few updates and explanations: Tattoos – Nope. I can sort of understand why someone would get one inobtrusive one. In his saxophone years, my son got one of a treble clef on his upper right arm. But covering a body …
Dr. Evil: Mr. President, after I destroy Washington D.C. I will destroy another major city every hour on the hour. That is, unless, of course, you pay me [emphasis] one hundred billion dollars.The President: [bursts with laughter] Dr. Evil, this is 1969! That amount of money doesn’t even exist. [laughing] That’s like saying [with changed …
“I wouldn’t (bleep) her with your (bleep) …” That’s the closest I’m going to come to expressing that particular opinion about two of the leading female luminaries in the Republican Party. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia are both first-term representatives in Congress, and while Boebert’s western Colorado district is the …
I didn’t go to the first big concert at the Capital Center. In fact, I didn’t make it to any of the three that opened the arena in December 1973 — the Allman Brothers, the Who or Alice Cooper/ZZ Top. I did see the first big concert of 1974, the huge show featuring Bob Dylan …
“Write me a letter, send it by mail. Send it in care of … the Facebook jail …” Here we go again. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Not complaining, either. While I think there’s something of a twinge of Snowflake in how they look at some posts, the times I’ve been arrested, sentenced …
“This baseball thing is just a battle between billionaires and millionaires.” No, it isn’t. Actually there are few things more annoying than hearing people say this, because it’s playing right into the hands of the people who have all the power. For lack of a better term, let’s call them the billionaires. Not all team …
Rome is known as the Eternal City. Paris is called the City of Light. Both have been important to history for centuries and even millennia, much further back than Western Hemisphere nations have even existed. Despite what folks in Boston or New York might think, there is really only one American city that even approaches …
