I know I’m five years late on this, but I get it now. Hamilton. Is. Great. Can we make all other hit Broadway musicals available at home basically for free? … Continue reading
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Love how folks are so upset that July Fourth is on a weekend (and hence getting no extra day off) that they’ve taken it upon themselves to take today off instead. Like we need to get a jump on getting … Continue reading
Baseball trivia question… What do the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Fredericksburg Nationals, Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, and Loudoun County Boys League E Team 6 have in common? Unfortunately they are going undefeated this year. … Continue reading
Nineties redux continues at the O’Connell household, no trouble for my wife and me (who lived through the era), but sometimes a challenge for my son. Who was born in 2014. Video games have brought him to the last century. … Continue reading
AAA World, the bi-monthly publication of the American Automobile Association (that would be “Triple A”), has a section I gloss over in each issue called Public & Government Affairs. This month’s headline: “Traffic crashes and fatalities drop with stay-at-home orders.” … Continue reading
Anyone else think “the start of the baseball” season is beginning to feel a little like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown? (If I could draw this is where I’d place a picture of Lucy bent down holding a … Continue reading
It started with The Last Dance. Then it was Fuller House. Yes, the time is now for a full-on ’90s revival. Think about it. Society has only about 30 years worth of material. About one generation, right? In the ’80s we had … Continue reading
Those who take time to measure such things tell me today is the last day of spring. I say good riddance. Spring 2020 was probably the worst season I’d ever experienced (through no fault of my own I might add), … Continue reading
Summer vacation feels a little bit different this year. Not as good, in a phrase, as the usual benefits of summer remain off limits ’round these parts. I’ll be honest, too, with the way the schoolyear was cut short I … Continue reading
My whole life (so far) I’ve read travelogues and vacation guidebooks in a sort of Walter Mitty fashion, having no intention of actually undertaking any of the journeys described. I’ve always felt kind of guilty about that. Not anymore of … Continue reading