I remember the turds better than the decent ones. First place on the turd list is, by a nose, or second blown head gasket, dad’s ‘66 Thunderbird. It would almost be the end of Ford anything in our house and probably is what has kept me from ever pulling the trigger on a Ford product. I didn’t like their styling at all…

I don’t know how a friend and a friend’s dad could stand to do the conductor and engineer jobs for over 50 years! I don’t know how many times when we were kids and we would make some little bit of noise and wake up the one friend’s dad, who usually wasn’t angry about it, just kind of, “It happens, I’ll live!” sort of…

A friend of mine is overjoyed they are back. I wasn’t impressed with the one I had, it was ok, but not worth the price. I can’t say gristle came to mind at all, just “How much was this?”. I could have bought a couple of Classic roast beefs and been happy.

My mom had a year old ‘72 Cutlass that was my daily driver. It had endless minor problems from the day she got it new. A flat spot on take off from idle bugged me the most, at first, but then it’s habit of eating alternators and starters started making me pretty much hate driving it anywhere except to the dealer. I…

Finally, a movie I actually want to see. Yeah, it’s trash, but it looks amusing as hell. Seriously, there aren’t too many movies I give a shit about at my age. One sure thing in it’s favor, I won’t be bored out of my skull like I have been so many times recently. 

The last time I heard Shatner interviewed, not too long ago, I was thinking, “Wow, I hope I’m half as sharp as he is in 25 years!”, absolutely positive I won’t make it nearly that long. But mom said the same thing, and made it to 87, able to recall phone numbers from early 30's Lincoln Nebraska all the way until…

When my mom made a turkey, the leftovers would usually go bad, because my dad didn’t care about it enough to bother with them, and I wanted and still want nothing to do with eating any kind of bird (I don’t hate poultry, but I don’t like it), so she would freeze most of it, and when it was to the point there wasn’t a…

I saw both Bullitt and Seven-Ups in the theater and I thought that Seven-Ups was the better movie in most ways. The end of the car chase was a surprise to everyone in the theater, and the facial expression was perfect. The sound of the cars was just ridiculous. The Grand Ville sounded like my dad’s Imperial’s 440 when…

The only real disaster I can remember was back in 1966. I was 10, and we had just moved into a new house and it wasn’t possible to see the TV from the dining room table, and we had several guests that year who wanted to see the Lions game, so we brought my only a couple of months old color (Yeah, a 10 year old with a…

No ham gets a hard pass from me. I can only remember one Thanksgiving where there was no ham, not even a not so great one. I went to one and they not only had a truly great ham, but roast beef that was almost as good, along with many many bowls of cold shrimp. That one was my favorite Thanksgiving of all. The family…

We went one time to my dad’s cousin’s house for Thanksgiving. They were notorious tightwads, but my mom somehow was convinced that “They wouldn’t cheap out on a Thanksgiving, would they?”. Oh, yes they would. There were about 30 people there, about 15 or so kids from 5 to about 16. They had one smallish turkey, no…

I was happy to see Meijer’s was open on Thanksgiving. I know they get at least time and a half to work holidays, but it might be more, as I get at my job.

I bought one TV on a Black Friday. My first HD TV, a Sharp 37" died suddenly at the age of only 5, and I needed a TV, so off to Costco I went. I ended up buying the exact same model TV(40") we had at work, so I knew how to do all the stuff you need to try to figure out on a new TV. $500+tax. As of today, it’s 12 years…

I had one of these about six months ago in a carry on, it’s just a slick looking radio, but the security people were freaking out.  I had to fire it up and show them how it worked. They oooohed and ahhhed. It’s a fun toy, and if you use an antenna that’s not near it, it works quite well. On a whip screwed onto one of…

I had/have a kubotan keychain since about 1980, mostly so I can’t ever lose my keys. It was a plastic one back then. I went all over the country with it on Delta, American, and United. Nobody said anything about it until about 1990, suddenly in Chicago, the guy says, “You can’t carry that, it’s a martial arts…

Sorry, I want nothing to do with any cheese in my mashed potatoes, or in any other way. I remember a Christmas dinner at someone’s house and the hostess ruined the mashed by putting cheese in them. Nobody but her and her family wanted anything to do with them. My reaction was, “What the hell did you put in these?”.…

As an old white guy, I don’t think I’ve ever seen sweet potatoes/yams at a holiday meal without marshmallows. As for me, I don’t like them, marshmallows or not. Give me the little red ones over any sweet potatoes or yams.

I haven’t seen a single store in a long time that doesn’t have CP on their shelves. It boggles my mind that they must sell a lot of them to keep stocking them. Why? Stores have constantly stopped carrying things I really liked/loved, but CP’s? Forever. 

As a lifetime poultryphobe, it’s ham for me, preferrably one of the more expensive really long smoked ones that are like the opposite of the hams you see in grocery stores. I bought one of those $$$ hams once, and it was fantastic. Turkey, along with any other bird, is fine for dog feeding and treats, but I’m happy to…

A friend of ours orange, of course, cat suddenly disappeared one day, and they looked and looked for him. FIVE days later, they opened the trunk of their long term rental car, and the cat came flying out. He looked terrible, but a trip to the vet and an IV to rehydrate him, along with a bath to clean the piss off of…