Right now,as I sit here at my comptuer, all across the Fruited Plain, the Dead are walking. Yes....Evil is afoot this night. Witches prowl the neighborhoods, side-by-side with horrifically decayed zombies, as well as ghosts, goblins, vampires, pirates and terrible monsters. But never fear----sprinkled in among these Evocateurs of Evil is a healthy number of superheroes....Superman and Spiderman seeming to be the most prevalent this year, but never count out "The Dark Knight"---Batman---and...
Suri Cruise Obsession: Going a Bit Too Far If you thought Vanity Fair's 22-page photo spread of four-month-old Suri Cruise with her mommy and daddy, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, was excessive, wait until you see this! Artist Daniel Edwards--he's the one who made the life size and anatomically correct statue of Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug--has created a sculpture that he claims was cast from Suri's first bowel movement. Agence France Presse reports that the bronze poopy ...
From Nutscrape Connect "What’s New": Lindsay Lohan: Secret About Her Sex Life Lindsay Lohan is tattling on herself. The 20-year-old actress, whose frequent sexcapades are fodder for tabloid headlines, just made it worse by revealing to Elle magazine a deep dark secret about her sex life. Or put it this way, it's a warning to any guy who has his eye on this prize. Lindsay thinks two-timing is a-okay--but only for her, not for her man. "If I'm going to give my body to someone, I'd...
This is a question I have wrestled with for many years: what, exactly, constitutes "cool" in a person? There seem to be several different perspectives on what constitutes being "cool", depending upon the context in which the term is used. Two leap to mind at present. Being "cool" can mean having the ability to stay or act correctly and calm in a given, often stressful situation. It can also mean acting "correctly" (usually in simply going along) in another situation, especially one in which s...
Lindsay Lohan has figured out what she wants to be when she grows up: A sex kitten and a pinup. Just like Marilyn Monroe. Lohan makes this breathless confession in the September issue of Elle magazine. The subject came up when the Hollywood party girl was asked if she had any big plans for the coming year. She said she wants to emulate Marilyn Monroe and visit the troops in Iraq with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton--even though it's not clear the senator even wants Lohan to accompany her. "I'v...
So last evening, The Wife and I went down to Follansbee, West Virgina, her hometown, for the last night of the yearly "Community Days" celebration. We parked at my in-laws, who live on the South End of town, and walked the few blocks up to the fair. I had a superbly greasy cheese steak with all the trimmings and handcut fries, and a slice of Curly's Pizza. Not my favorite 'zza (makes me gassy, truth be told), but it's pretty good. Then, we just walked up and down the street, checking out th...
Last evening, as I was working at the Dollar General where I make a (very) few extra bucks, a group of kids came in. There were five or six of them; two were white, the rest black. They made a few purchases and I rang them out and took their money. As I did, I had a chance to make a few quick observations, and these, in turn, left me with a few questions. Chiefly amomg those: Why is it that, when blacks and whites hang out together, for any length of time at all, whites become black? ...
Matt Grinage, a talented friend and co-worker of mine, has written and illustrated a series of 3 children's books. The first, available now, is "Oatie: The Seed That Did Not Know how to Grow". It's about a wheat seed named Oatie, blown off the wheatstock just before his father tells him the facts of life, and thusly sent on a journey to learn about "grow". I've read the manuscripts, and the stories are cute and well-told. To learn more, please click the link. Thanks.
Beforte I start---no, I haven't seen it, of course, but I have read several sparkling reviews of it. Sounds wonderful (yawn). So our former Man-Who-Would-Be President has a new movie. Ever determined to save the planet from the evils and excesses of Humankind, Al Gore and his coterie of scientist-like whackos and Environmentalists have enlisted the willing co-conspirators in Whacko Hollywood to aid them in their battle. "An Inconvenient Truth" is a feature documentary film starring Al G...
Mexican Myth or Texas Terror? by Holly Fenner Is a local Texas television station desperate for ratings or is there something behind the legend of the Chupacabra? A recent home video of an unidentified animal has Texas residents again pointing fingers at the famed Mexican blood sucker. This isn't the first or even second time this suspected "blood-sucking thing from beyond" has claimed fame in the Lonestar State. WOAI Channel 4 first broadcast the discovery of the Texas Chupacabra in J...
Larry Denham. Now, that’s a name that means a whole lot me, personally. I wouldn’t have been here without it, after all. He, however, would still be here if not for the cancer that festered in the two to three packs of cigarettes he smoked every day and hung concentrated in the air of the bars he regularly frequented for decades, then spread to his lungs and beyond, and eventually killed him. On April 17th, my family will note the fourth year since the passing of my dad. It’s become...
I work a second job, three nights a week, running a cash register at a Dollar General. Just making some extra cash. A woman came in the other night and purchased a lot of foodstuffs; cereal, canned veggies and fruit, lunch snacks, stuff like that. She paid with a Food Stamp Debit Card. No problem. As I finished up, however, bagging her items and handing her the receipt, she looked to her right and noticed a display we have on the counter. "Oooo! Pez dispensers!" she said, excited. "I love...
Larry Denham. Now, that’s a name that means a whole lot me, personally. I wouldn’t have been here without it, after all. He, however, would still be here if not for the cancer that festered in the two to three packs of cigarettes he smoked every day and hung concentrated in the air of the bars he regularly frequented for decades, then spread to his lungs and beyond, and eventually killed him. On April 17th, my family will note the fourth year since the passing of my dad. It’s become...
Weirton, WV, the home of the first Wal-Mart in this area, is supposed to be coming into its own, Wal-Mart wise, with the (rumored) construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the grounds of the old Weirton Steel Corp. General Offices (or the G.O., as it's called here) out on Three Springs Drive. Why we need another WM Supercenter is beyond me. Weirton already has the one Wal-Mart and, right across the river in Steubenville, OH is a large Supercenter, just about three or four years old. Oh, wel...
I’m not sure I’m going to be able to convey this properly, but here goes: From the time we’re little kids, we hear how everyone is different. We’re none of us, no two, completely alike; we’re all unique in some way. Even identical twins. Some are similar, yes. In views, personality and temperament, which is how we form friendships, but we’re all different. Our backgrounds are what "form" us, I suppose you could say; our genetic makeup, our upbringing, environment, whatever. That’s wha...