I still watch Letterman, even though Leno has return to his home in late night. I really liked this bit about Dave’s trip to the Balloon Store.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Cherry Mash
I read a book one time where the author said that the best candy bar in the world was The Five Star Bar. Not true, the Five Star Bar is nothing but a bit of candy removed from a heart shaped box and sent out into the world on it’s own. Real candy bars exist …
Ying and Yang or Is that Bipolar?
Highs and lows have always been my norm. I’ve always been an all or nothing kind of guy. I’m either in the best shape I’ve ever been, ready to scale mountains and race in triathlons-or I’m gonna be dead by the end of the week so why bother? I happen to be in a manic …
Moutain Dew Throwback
I grew up drinking all kinds of sodas. Frosty Root Beer, Topp Cola, Cragmont Soda, Delaware Punch, Dr Pepper, Orange Crush, and Mountain Dew. I never liked the big name colas-Coke and Pepsi just didn’t do it for me. About ten years ago I found modern sodas that I pretty much fell in love with-Stewarts …
Cesar Chavez
Supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers. His birthday has become César Chávez Day, a state holiday in eight States. Many parks, cultural centers, libraries, schools, and streets have been named in his honor in cities across the United States. -Wikipedia While not exactly Gandhi or MLK he is the closest …
The Checklist Manifesto
I love self help books of all sorts, but I tend to hate books trying to pass themselves off as Self Help books. The Checklist Manifesto sounds as if it is a self help book about making Checklists. The subtitle is How To Get Things Right. But really, it’s a book by a Surgeon about …
Siskel and Ebert and The Movies
Gene Siskel has been dead a long time and Roger Ebert looks like he has been dead for a long time and At The Movies has finally been canceled. When I was a kid I loved all movies-Earth Vs The Flying Saucers was a favorite film featuring Ray Harryhausen’s stop motion UfOs destroying Washington Dc. …
Tell Us A Story
After a while, you run out of things to say. You use up your passion. Or you become like Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck and take to telling the same story over and over again. This happens to writers as well, any series of books falls into a familiar pattern. Each episode of House or …
The Proper Amount of Suction
I like The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. I follow him on Twitter, which makes me a member of his Robot Skeleton Army and means that I live with him in a hollowed out volcano. (not really-as Craig would say.) There’s something very interesting about the whole idea of the proper amount of suction …
Nurse Jackie
The self righteous, adulterous, caring mother and hard as nails Nurse Jackie returns to Showtime. The end of season 1 was a great cliffhanger, but we kind of skip over most of that and get back to the normal business of being in a hospital full of slightly insane health care workers. Oh there is …
