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Well, there goes two hours

Everybody’s got ’em – those movies that, if you stumble onto them while channel surfing, you’ll stop and watch the rest. Not your favorite movies; not the best movies; just your guilty pleasure movies. Here’s some of mine. Hombre Not…

Death to flying things

Nicknames in sports have been around as long as there have been sports. . But I firmly believe the best sports nickname of all time was retired way back in 1870 with baseball’s Jack “Death to Flying Things” Chapman. There…

A mix tape, from me to you

Music is incredibly subjective, but here are some artists I wish were better known, kind of a mix tape from me to you: Nellie McKay Sometimes I wonder why she has never hit it big and sometimes I wonder how…

I internet so you don’t have to

1940’s, Uber, New York city YouTube user NASS restores old videos, adding color and sound. They can be kind of hypnotic, as in this one of a guy driving around Manhattan in the 1940’s. I kept wanting to tell him…

Cinnamon Rolls recipe

This is a well tested recipe! I’ve made it hundreds of times, my mom made it thousands of times and God only knows how many times her mom (and brothers and father) made it! Here’s a little more readable version…

Openers

Me: Have I have some great ideas for the opening of stories. You: Great! Now all you need to do is write the stories! Me: Um … that sounds like a lot of work. What if I wrote a story…