This story comes from the Gaza strip in a refugee camp. A Palestinian barber, Ramadan Edwan, is using fire instead of a hair dryer to straighten his clients' hair. Due to the lack of electricity, Ramadan turned to fire for his source of heat. He begins by pouring flammable powder and liquid on the customer's hair before setting it on fire with a …
As you may know I like to drive fast and have gotten tickets in the past. (not anymore though:) I thought I new every excuse but this one takes the cake. Deep in Western Australia a driver was caught speeding. Not unusual given the stretches of road, but he told police it was the wind’s fault. After the officer stopped laughing he wrote out a tic …
Have you every gotten frustrated and angry at our government institutions (I know;) Here's a captial idea...pay your government bill with pennies. In fact a business owner recently did this. Nick Stafford paid a DMV bill of $2,987.45 using five wheelbarrows filled with 300,000 pennies. The employees at the DMV office in Lebanon, Virginia were f …
This falls under a broad cateogry I've been calling "Trumpish." I define Trumpish as things people do in honor of Trump becoming our President. Case in point, a Washington state trooper ticketed a single driver trying to get through the carpool lane with a giant cut-out of Donald Trump's head. It cost the driver $136 but the trooper let him kee …
I never really laugh at Mother-In-Law jokes. I understand them from stories and experiences people have recited but never connected with the meaning. That's because my Mother-in-Law was an incredible woman. Strong, resilient, demure, classy, loving, intelligent and so much more. Jean Rack (Nana) was the embodiment of all that is good. Her story is …
It's Christmas eve and the first night of Hannukah. What do I eat for dinner? The traditional seven fishes, a roasted ham or a brisket with latkes? It's a conundrum...add in Kwanza and I'm totally food confused. I could use your help. Please let me know what are you feasting on tonight. I need some ideas ;) Thanks and I wish a very warm and won …
They call it a Polar Vortex, the Siberian Express, the Canadian Clipper...I just call it winter. It's here...look out your windows (for those of us in the Northeast) and revel in the snow. I've got my snow thrower and shovels at the ready. You know it's winter when Fred is getting ready to go south and the sounds of winter suburbia fill the air. …
Kentucky Fried Chicken of New Zealand is offering their really loyal customers the chance to win a strange piece of merchandise: a scented candle. Not just any candle though. The iconic fried chicken joint posted to their FB page a fried chicken-scented candle bearing the image of the chain's Colonel Sanders logo. This is not the first time KFC o …
Ahhh the sounds of suburbia. I awoke this morning to hear the lovely whine of several leaf blowers and the rumble of a few lawnmowers as they made their way around my neighbor's yards. We have a rule in our town that states you cannot use this equipment before 8A and wouldn't you know at exactly 8A the cacophony of 2 cycle and 4 cycle engines fil …
I love Thanksgiving...no presents, no religion, just good food (hopefully:), friends, family and a heaping of gratitude. But that's not what my blog today is about. Last Tuesday night I arrived home, ate some dinner and went upstairs to get ready for bed..I was exhausted. As I'm in the process, I hear the familiar sound of a lawnmover rumbling …
Half of all Americans rely on Facebook for their news source. Unfortunately it has been used as a political tool this past election for spreading falsehoods and lies. Facebook had fired their newstaff roughly 6 months ago so the social platform's news streams were unfettered and exploited. Fake news was published and displayed on individuals medi …
Here's something for you to ponder...according to the Constitution, chosen electors of the Electroal College are the real people who will vote for president, when they meet on Dec. 19th in their respective state capitals. There is technically nothing stopping any of the electors from voting their conscience and refusing to support the candidate t …
Not for the election Tuesday, Fred covered that yesterday. This is about something much bigger. We’re about to see the biggest supermoon in more than 60 years – and there won’t be another until 2034. On November 14 at 9:52 AM, the moon will be the closest to Earth it has been since 1948. The moon is expected to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter, m …
A 63 year oid man, Alan Sorrentino, sent a letter to a small (5,000 circ.) Rhode Island newspaper criticizing women who wear yoga pants in public. He described yoga pants as "stinky, tacky, ridiculous looking." "They do nothing to compliment a woman over 20 years old,” he wrote in the letter, which was published on Wednesday. “In fact, the look i …
They're in style and many men have grown them in many different lengths. Fred shaves his off and grows it back several times during the year. A friend of mine wears a goatee and extends it to a full beard then shaves it back. I've had mine for a very long time...30+ years. I can't remember not having a beard. I look at pictures of myself withou …
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
