Yahoo email…
…is driving me crazy. It seems to be malfunctioning at the moment. And I know, I know—a lot of you will tell me to go to Gmail, because it’s so much better. I have a Gmail account, too, and have … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Me, myself, and I
Have trouble getting to sleep?
I don’t usually push products, but this is one I’ve been addicted to for over thirty years. You’ve probably seen and maybe even heard all those newer and fancier sound machines that are supposed to lull you to sleep. They’re … Continue reading →
Humor and presidents and aging and…
Now that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has passed, this might be the best time to state that this stuff is undignified and bothers me whoever does it, Democrat or Republican. I’m all for presidential humor, but it used to … Continue reading →
Singing the blogroll blues
You may or may not have noticed that a couple of years ago my blogroll disappeared. To the reader, blogrolls are a convenience, a shorthand way to find blogs the writer considers worth looking at for one reason or other. … Continue reading →
Cream cake and biscuit tortoni
Whole Foods has an especially delectable cake that I find completely irresistible. Fortunately for me, my wallet, and my waistline, I don’t live down the street from a Whole Foods, although I’m within striking distance if the desire is strong … Continue reading →
James Bond theme songs
Here’s a PJ article on the 5 worst and 5 best James Bond theme songs. My question is: why, why, why is there no “Dr. No” there among the best? Is it because there was no conventional “song” (with words, … Continue reading →
Best restaurants?
Here’s a list of the 20 best restaurants in America—according to the folks at something I’ve never heard of before called The Daily Meal. If you take a look, you’ll notice there’s a trend, which is for restaurants that are … Continue reading →
Marilyn Hagerty, the Olive Garden, and me
By now you’ve probably encountered the tale of 85-year-old Marilyn Hagerty’s polite column on the Olive Garden in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the middle-America restaurant review that went viral. Initially, cynical bloggers and twitterers made fun of Ms. Hagerty’s respect … Continue reading →
Fun with Comcast
Today my internet connection went down. I tried all the usual things: asking Comcast to refresh the signal, disconnecting and reconnecting the modem, calling and speaking to customer service. It was the latter that really got my goat. First the … Continue reading →
Spanx: spanking new?
Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx, is a billionaire. My goodness. I knew Spanx were (was?) big, but I had no idea. No idea! In case you don’t know what Spanx are (is?), one picture is worth at least 500 … Continue reading →
Those stupid Oscars
I won’t talk about last night’s Oscar awards here. We’ve already done that, to the dismay of some. This post is about Oscars of yore. The other day at PJ, Chris Queen listed the Oscars’ 10 biggest blunders, and I … Continue reading →
Parents and homework
[NOTE: Every now and then I re-post a previous essay that you might have missed first time around. This is one of them (slightly edited).] When I was a child, we were given a fair amount of homework. And although … Continue reading →