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February is the worst month of the year. It’s also the shortest. Sometimes things just work out.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
I have now seen Season Two of House of Cards in its entirety, and I’m happy to say it lived up to its hype. Last year I called the show something along the lines of The West Wing… if it were written … Continue reading
Kudos to the folks at Oreo cookies for leading us, yet again, into the future of snack foods. In stores now is something called the “cookie dough Oreo,” a delight one wonders why it took until 2014 to develop. Well, … Continue reading
You can blame me for placing a jinx on the Orange of Syracuse this week, who lost their first game of the season Wednesday. A few weeks ago I ascribed their winning season to weakened competition from their new conference, … Continue reading
Last night I had a dream. It was the year 2084. And I was still playing gigs at nursing homes. As I proceeded through my usual set of Sinatra, etc. the residents kept shouting out for Katy Perry and Hannah … Continue reading
In the past week I have seen three political/historical movies of varying levels of “enjoyability.” Most interesting was how they did not at all match my expectations. I first viewed George Clooney’s new World War II vehicle, The Monuments Men. I … Continue reading
I’ve poked fun at global warming before but this one brings ridiculousness to an all-time high. Crikey!
For the past 15 years I’ve been studying and teaching political science, history, and economics, and until last week I had never heard the term “job lock.” I have heard nothing else in the time since. Not sure who dreamed … Continue reading
Over the weekend I had at Dunkin’ Donuts something called a cookie dough donut. Why it took the world’s doughnut makers however many hundreds of years to come up with such a thing is beyond me, but I say it … Continue reading
Of all the disturbing things going on in the world this week I found one item more disturbing than the others. Author extraordinaire J.K. Rowling has piped up yet again, backtracking a bit on her otherwise classic Harry Potter series. … Continue reading