Thanksgiving with the gang from Cheers

 
One of my favorite sitcoms back in the 80s and early 90s was NBC’s Cheers. I liked the ensemble cast and writing and it was a fun show to watch whether it was the ongoing love spats between Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), Carla Tortelli’s (Rhea Pearlman) [...]

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Armistice Day

“The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month”
When I was a young boy growing up in America’s Midwest back in the 1960s, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents who lived about a mile east of LaSalle, Illinois a town approximately 90 miles southwest of Chicago.
I was there first [...]

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Shop Class with Mr. V. and The Mazzutti Brothers

Shop Class with Mr. V. and The Mazzutti Brothers.
 
It’s funny some of the stuff you remember when you get older not to mention how one might look back on other things more nostalgically, like shop class in grade school.
Maybe I am doing more of that because I have been living and working overseas for the [...]

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Pimping a Post

With Halloween two days away, I thought I would pimp a post, in this case a Halloween short story I wrote about Tipping Outhouses on Halloween. Take time to read it and vote.
Happy Halloween!

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Let’s Boogie on down to the Boogie Café

It was a cold, rainy November Friday evening when my Japanese friend, rock and roll and tattoo brother Kenny Shangrila took me to the Boogie Café in Yokohama. On my way from Bangkok to Chicago via Japan, I had a three-day layover in Japan where I would be hanging out with Kenny. After he had [...]

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Wilma and Fred lighting up?

While surfing the internet the other day, I came across some rather bizarre, surreal and even disturbing videos of classic TV commercials, especially this one of Wilma and Fred Fintstone smoking as well as a very evil-looking Jolly Green Giant.
Check out my online article of classic TV commercials here.

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Tipping Outhouses — A Halloween Short Story

Back when I was growing up in Cherry, Illinois often heard stories about kids tipping outhouses on Halloween. It was a popular Halloween prank that sometimes backfired.

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Terrell Owens to the Bears: The Bears Should Make It Happen

The biggest NFL rumor sweeping the Internet these days and one that people have been “tweeting” a lot with Twitter has been whether or not Terrell Owens, currently with the Buffalo Bills will be traded to those Monsters of the Midway, the Chicago Bears.
Whether these rumors do in fact turn out to be just rumors, [...]

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The Piggly Wiggly is on fire

The Piggly Wiggly is on Fire
“Wake up boys,
the Piggly Wiggly’s on fire,”
Dad says rousing us
from our slumber.
Half asleep and
not sure what
all this hubbub about
a burning grocery store
has to do with us
we search for our clothes.
“Not enough time,”
Dad says, hurrying
us along. “Quick,
into the car.”
So, dressed only
in our pajamas
Dad drives the 10 miles
for us to watch
the [...]

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Facebook Etiquette: Do’s and Don’ts

Facebook has quickly become one of the more popular social networking sites on the Internet. It has become a place for friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to connect as well as re-connect. Likewise, in this age of Twitter and “tweeting” people can stay in touch more and inform friends of their “status.”
However, when it comes to [...]

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