Good information. Unfortunately, I live in a small town in a rural area — I suspect I would be able to pick up all the Nashville stations (and maybe Huntsville, Ala., as well) with a rooftop antenna, but I’m an an apartment. My indoor antenna, with a small signal-booster, gets two signals (one of which has multiple…

I told them not to pay the ferry man. “Don’t even fix a price,” I said. But did they listen?

I go through phases when I use my SodaStream, and then I go through phases when I get tired / annoyed with it and put it away. I live in a small rural town, and there’s no one locally who sells the flavor syrups and/or exchanges tanks. I use as mail-in tank exchange called Soda Sense — depending on your situation, you…

Patton Oswalt had better return as Dr. Demento.

I’ve heard some police officers who say that “Barney Miller” is still the most accurate depiction of police work on television.

I replaced my air fryer a few months back, and the new one was designed, not with a basket, but with a removable platform — and the holes in the platform are just barely large enough that some smaller or squished chickpeas could squeeze through. But recently, I found some great little parchment liners — cut to just…

I love Nutella as an occasional special treat. I did, however, get unreasonably angry in the days when they would position it as a nutritious breakfast food. I think, even today, they tout the fact that it has “skim milk” on the label -- never mind the palm oil, it’s made with skim milk! It must be good for you!

I want to see this, and I’m sure it will be worth seeing, but the José Ferrer version is one of my favorite things ever — and it fell into the public domain at some point, so it is legally and ethically available on YouTube.

There’s a wonderful book by Susan Tifft and Alex Jones (not THAT Alex Jones) called “The Patriarch,” about the Bingham family which once dominated Louisville, Ky., media, owning the newspaper, a TV station and radio stations, and becoming one of the predominant media companies in the South. Two of Barry Bingham Sr.’s…

Other musicians who’ve pulled double duty include: Chance The Rapper, Justin Timberlake, Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, and Halsey. The most recent singer to do it was Nick Jonas.

He also played a significant role in development of the music video as it was known in the 1980s and 1990s.

This reminded me of our local KFC, which had a buffet in the Before Times. Which reminds me ... every other fast food outlet with a drivethrough in our small time allows you to pick up online orders (from a phone app or website) at the drivethrough, but KFC, even though it has an active drivethrough, forces you to…

As many specialty condiments as there are sold online these days,  this seems like an opening for someone -- if they could figure out a way to do it without violating any of Heinz’ patents.

Almost 40 years ago, my favorite band, Daniel Amos, complained about the absence of the jetpacks we’d been promised:

DAY-ree KWEEN.

The combination of Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) and Felix (S.Z. Sakall) from “Christmas In Connecticut.” If you’ve never seen it, she is a Martha Stewart-like columnist whose columns always include mouth-watering recipes. She’s a brilliant writer, capable of making the recipes *sound* delicious, just as she’s…

Always be yourself, unless you can be Jason Batman. In that case, be Batman.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/entertainment/dining/2021/11/15/burger-king-popeyes-owner-buys-jacksonville-based-firehouse-subs/8622940002/

The new owners say they will maintain Firehouse’s non-profit foundation, which does a lot of good work. I live in a small, rural town, and we don’t even have a Firehouse Subs, but our county fire department, and the little rural volunteer fire departments that support it, have benefitted from Firehouse grants. I hope…

Way to make a correction without admitting that you screwed up the previous article by not doing even the most basic five-minute fact check.