When I awoke this morning, the temperature outside was 29º. Frost covered the lawn. Across the street, a neighbor’s leftover “Happy Summer” banner mocked me. All this in mid-October ( Read more... )

DraftKings and FanDuel. I like football and I’m sick of these commercials so I can imagine how annoyed sports non-fans are. Maybe their ubiquity is coming to an end since there’s a betting scandal similar to insider trading. It’s hilarious how DraftKings and FanDuel (because no company or product can be two words now; they’re always smashed ( Read more... )

Sure, why not. I’m having trouble coming up with ideas lately and a lot of people watch The Walking Dead so I may as well start recapping it.

“First Time Again” was good. The flashbacks kept things moving so we weren’t stuck in Peyton Place for a few episodes before the action with the quarry started. Although the black and white didn’t always ( Read more... )

The dolphin and the hamburger and inner tube are banished to the shed for the winter. At the deep end, a few leaves, a premonition, rest beyond easy reach of the skimmer ( Read more... )

Good Lord, she was terrible! She was Ed-Norton-in-The-Incredible-Hulk bad. Kim Dickens was OK in Gone Girl and House of Cards but she was laughably incompetent at expressing basic emotions in Fear the Walking Dead. I was going to write about that as part of my recaps of The Walking Dead that I’m starting this season but I was so annoyed by that “ ( Read more... )

I was so annoyed at myself one day last week. I had left some chicken to thaw on the counter for that night’s dinner and forgot to put it in the fridge before I left for work to continue thawing. When I got home, it was too warm to eat and I didn’t want to risk salmonella. So into the trash it went ( Read more... )

There’s a hurricane a-comin’! Or it’s a-stayin’ out to sea! Either way, rain and wind are happening this weekend so here are some tips to prepare yourself for Hurricane Joaquin ( Read more... )

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The TV show Heroes is being reborn as Heroes Reborn. Almost 20 years ago, Marvel had its own Heroes Reborn experiment, which was one of the oddest and most disliked eras in its history ( Read more... )

Madonna concerts are tightly choreographed affairs. They’re staged more like Broadway shows than traditional concerts. She might change up a song once in awhile but usually, once the setlist leaks, you pretty much know what you’re going to get ( Read more... )