From the I’ll-take-anything-but-a-Covid-story series, there is this… If you live ’round these parts (that would be the Washington, D.C., metro area) you have no doubt felt a crush of very hot weather recently, and someone telling you we were closing … Continue reading
If you live ’round these parts (that would be the Washington, D.C., metro area) you know one thing for certain: we talk about football regardless of season, regardless of pandemics, and regardless of whether or not anyone will ever actually … Continue reading
Oh, no, nothing actually. I just wanted to post that title somewhere with a time stamp. That’s how we’ll refer to this era some day. Totally thought of it first. … Continue reading
It was 35 years ago this week (July 11, 1985 to be exact) a great national nightmare ended. The Coca-Cola company ended the brutal “New Coke” era with a return of the newly-branded Coca-Cola Classic. Can someone now please bring back … Continue reading
Remember that scene in The Jerk, with Steve Martin running through the street proclaiming “the new phonebooks are here!”? Yeah, that was me over the weekend. Sports are getting real again. … Continue reading
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
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