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It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year?

Let’s all gather around the fake tree – the tattered Tannenbaum that no one will want to take down in January – and pretend we can’t wait to watch “A Christmas Story” for 24 straight hours on tbs. Fah-ra-ra-ra-ra. It’s … Continue reading

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Are You Ready For Some Millionaireball?

You don’t have to be a Jets fan to like Hard Knocks on HBO. For the entire summer, I have flipped between replayed games on the NFL channel or watched replays of Alabama versus Virginia Tech, or Alabama versus Florida … Continue reading

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3Damned Awesome

The new high-end LED/LCD, 3D HDTV’s are ruining my old school eyes, but not in a painful way. It is delightfully devious retina ruination, an eye-opening bite of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, like in Genesis. … Continue reading

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Shooting Our Inner Reptiles

Almost 4,000 feet above sea level: you can smell the horsepower from up here on its way from Michigan. A runway stretches across the top of this mountain in Bath County, Virginia. The road that ends at the door of a … Continue reading

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Why Do We Love Football, Steve?

The Super Bowl is Sunday. It is a big deal for football, entertainment, advertising and Saints fans. If you enjoy the NFL, thank Steve Sabol. His stories created it. Sabol is 67 now. He became famous by turning football into … Continue reading

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What Is Unusual?

Have you seen the commercials for Chantix? It is a smoking cessation prescription medication. All of these pharmaceutical commercials have a long recitation of side effects and warnings. We have heard them for years: constipation, nausea, gas, etc. Everything on … Continue reading

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34 Bowl Games Is Not Enough

  Go to ESPN or Sports Illustrated and check out the college bowl games this year. There are 33 of them. We all know the Rose, Orange and Sugar Bowls. We know about the BCS Championship game. I’ll get excited … Continue reading

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B-52 Landing

Last night I saw a B-52 bomber sprinkling bombs into history on the History Channel. I think it was the same, black and white, archival footage I have seen all of my life. A young airman probably shot it with a spring-loaded camera … Continue reading

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April Madness

After 24-hour-a-day basketball, what are we supposed to watch now? American Idol? Baseball that doesn’t matter? Diners, Drive-Ins and the Toast Chees I used to eat every day for lunch?

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Gourmet, Gourmand, Goobert

Do you watch Iron Chef? Have you seen some of the fru-fru things they are doing with food lately? I saw one just now, using basil. The stacked little bites on the plates were so precious no one should lay … Continue reading

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