Prolific writers always impress me, even if I don’t read much of their work. I found it hard enough to even write one (unpublished) novel, much less many manuscripts. Then there’s the whole thing about getting an agent and all that mess. The amount of work involved amazes me. Then I read John Grisham’s “Playing […]
If I wanted to write a snarky review of Enchanted, I could say that I liked it better the first time when they called it Splash and included John Candy quoting Swedish porn (check the 8:30 mark of this clip) in order to rescue the damsel in distress. But I won’t do that because I […]
With the holiday approaching, I know we will spend a lot of time together in the car. I start to have flashbacks when that happens. As a kid, we did a ton of traveling. We drove pretty much all up and down the East Coast. I think I had visited every coastal state by the […]
I read the “Today in History” column in my local paper pretty much every day. My favorite part are the celebrity birthdays. I always had a rule that once a musician turned 50, the could not be listed as a “rock” musician. I decided to change that rule yesterday when Peter Buck celebrated his 51st […]
A couple of years ago, no one knew Katherine Heigl. If you look at her IMDB profile, you might not realize she had such a good career before “Grey’s Anatomy” (I had totally forgotten she was part of the torture called “My Father The Hero“) but she wasn’t one of those people who immediately leapt […]
I stopped by to see Maria at work last weekend. She just started working at a shop called Treasures downtown. I had nothing better to do since it was near the end of the Thanksgiving holiday. With several days off, Maria at work, and Bridget spending several days at my mother-in-law’s, I had lots of […]
I can officially get excited. R.E.M. has announced its first concert for 2008. We don’t know when they will release their next album. We don’t even know what it might be called. But we know they will play in Florida in March, and they have dropped hints that more shows will come. I, for one, […]
For the first time in forever, we rented a few movies. We had some time over the holidays, so I used a gift card I got for my birthday and picked a pair up at Blockbuster. We had want to see The Ex (which has somehow been re-titled “Fast Track) when it came out in […]
I actually went out shopping on Black Friday (I did come away with a pair of $20 sport coats from Wal-Mart so I have that going for me). I was not going out mega early and got out around 7:30ish. After I hit a few stores, I decided to treat myself to a coffee and […]
I like to try and support local food places. When Maria was working on Saturday, I figured I’d hit a place I had never tried before. I was hankering for a sub so I went to this new pizza/sub joint. Yeah, that isn’t happening again. First off, I didn’t get what I ordered. I got […]