I’ve been, well, incommunicado — at least as far as my blog is concerned. On the other hand, did I miss YOU earlier this week at the shriek-at-the-sky anti-Trump event? Wasn’t that something? On the first anniversary of Trump’s ascension … Continue reading
Category Archives: Just Good Sense
The hosts of my favorite movie review podcast discussed theater etiquette last week. More specifically, they talked about what foods are inappropriate to eat during a show. Seems a listener’s girlfriend had smuggled a plastic baggie filled with spaghetti and … Continue reading
We spend every Saturday morning on the patio at Zorro’s Cantina, just a block or so up from the beach. The Zorro’s breakfast menu is terrific. (There’s an off-menu omelet named after me, but that’s another story.) Unfortunately, our usual … Continue reading
Over a cup of coffee this morning, I read a short story by Joe Lansdale, one of my favorite authors and a master of East Texas Noir. In the course of the yarn, one of Lansdale’s characters, a good ol’ … Continue reading
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that if your three-year-old boy is waddling around grabbing his crotch, he probably has to pee real bad. Or maybe he’s just a budding porn star. Either way, you’ve gotta pay … Continue reading
Have you seen any of those “tiny house” TV shows? Deb got me watching them, and I’ve gotta admit, it’s fun to see people struggle to downsize their households and squeeze themselves into as little as 200 square feet. The … Continue reading
When I was a kid, the first day of school always — ALWAYS — fell on today, the Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend. Not anymore. I know a lot of kids who started school three weeks ago. A few … Continue reading
You know what the Darwin Awards are, right? They’re given posthumously to folks who meet their maker by their own hand and in the most ridiculous ways. A Darwin double-whammy occurred in Peru on the very same day last week, … Continue reading
Before we had big-budget CGI superhero extravaganzas smacking us from all sides on the Big Screen, there was a little dude on TV named MacGyver. MacGyver was this spy fella who always escaped life-and-death situations in very clever ways. He … Continue reading
You know I hang out at a lot of coffee houses — both Starbucks-type locations and one-of-a-kind mom-and-pop spots. (Hell, I created a whole product wrapped around that fact.) And more than once, I’ve made a barista cry. That’s what … Continue reading
