Billy Joel's Piano Man. Truly a classic. One that's a great deal of fun to sing loudly, and often drunkenly and followed by Captain Jack, with a group of friends...when you're younger that is and you understand the lyrics but don't really understand them. Ever try singing the song out loud in your 30's once you grock the lyrics? It's significantly ( Read more... )

Sadly, store closures are nothing new, especially in the malls around here, all too many of which are but a few rogue tumbleweeds and a haunting musical score away from becoming spaghetti western ghost towns. So, with all of this previous experience you would think that our local mall would have had the good sense to know that when this happened ( ( Read more... )

When the scourge of karoke night has hit even that greatest of the last great dive bars, Cambria's Old Comozzi's (now hipply and sadly just called Mozzi's), it's time to go home:


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Posted on the doors of the AMC in Glendora:


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Shopping at Bed Bath and Beyond for a few of the folks on our list, Mortgaged and I stumbled across this:


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...Well, such as still remain on LJ. Tell me, does this loverly sampler of three kinds of sangria allow us to expand our universal sign for margaritas to encompass sangria as well? :)


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It’s that time of year again, when holiday catalogs flood mailboxes throughout the land touting every “must have” gift known to man this season and quite a few man probably had not really been aware of and seemed to be functioning quite nicely without, thank you very much. As usual, the alternative Christmas catalog, Heifer International arrived at ( Read more... )

I realize that relative levels of cooking prowess differ from person to person. Not everyone is a gourmet cook, nor should they be. But if you are the sort of person who cannot follow a "thaw green beans, open canned mushroom soup, mix together..." level of recipe without adult supervision, well, apparently Marie Calendar has your back:


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...That they're letting me build a fort around my desk!:


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Well, as advice goes, I suppose that’s pretty sound. But what if your body happens to be a whiney little bitch? That’s my dilemma. As a migraine sufferer with a bum foot and an f’d up knee, among other issues, I learned to ignore my whiney body a long time ago. If I had listened to the various aches and pains, especially the headaches, instead of ( Read more... )