Oh, Mitt Romney.  I adore you.  You are my absolute favorite political candidate in this presidential race, and I just want you to know that.  Don’t misunderstand me – I don’t really want you to be president, but I’m enjoying your campaign so much it just makes me giddy.  You’re like a parody of the […]

Today, my friends, we take the Weekly Question of the Week up a notch.  Call it Phase Two.  Exciting, right?  Darn right.  Just wait until Phase Three.  It involves lasers. Here’s the new dealio: I’ll give you a question, or scenario, or maybe even sometimes a visual prompt. You provide an answer.  You may answer […]

In honor of my 666th subscriber (welcome, Stacie Chadwick!  Thanks for coming by!), I – naturally – immediately began humming Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast” to myself.  This, of course, made want to do two things: One, rock.  Two, take a moment and explore 6(66) reasons to love 80’s Heavy Metal! 1. For […]

AMC, purveyors of some pretty great TV shows, have just released the promotional poster for season 5 of Mad Men, like a plate of bacon before the over-analytical dogs that are the show’s fans. Um, that analogy might need some work. Anyway, producer Matthew Weiner says that the poster is, “a nonverbal representation of where […]

It’s International Polar Bear Day.  I don’t know what that means, but I don’t care, because, Polar Bears! To celebrate, let’s review some pictures of polar bears, and some fun facts. Fun fact 1: If you eat a polar bear’s liver, your skin will fall off. This is because of the amount of vitamin A […]

“Uncle Byronic?” Yes, adorable little child? “You know those ads for Dr. Pepper 10 that equate drinking diet Dr. Pepper to guns and being a Viking and smashing things with your bare hands and being in a rodeo and stuff?” Sure. “Those are awful.  They make me want to burn things.  How can those exist?” […]

Well, the second ad has been put up, the one I wrote about the other day.  The one involving the cat; the one that was supposed to be ever so simple and wound up… being… not so.  The part that’s kind of tough about people seeing it, is it’s supposed to look quick and cheap […]

The Obama administration has asked Congress to approve changing the materials that pennies and nickels are made from, recently.  On one hand, you might say “Seriously?  That’s where their attention is going?”  On the other hand, you might think this is a wise move, considering that pennies and nickels cost more than twice as much […]