Recession Proof Happy Hour

During these harsh economic times, my friends and I have brought our Friday night Happy Hours to the home front. Some of us have become quite creative in mixing cocktails. Instead of the usual bottles of vino and pale ale, we have turned our Happy Hours into nights filled with Cucumber Martinis and Saki Mojitos. I have been on a Sangria kick these days, so I thought I would share a couple of my recipes with you, in hopes that I would get a few cocktail recipes in return! Continue reading →

10 Photos About America

A very special thank you to Durer’s Rhino for letting me riff on her idea for this special edition of 10 Photos.


Great Hall of the Second Ellis Island Immigration Station-US Library of Congress. 1908. Continue reading →

It’s All How You Say It, Hon!

I was an Air Force brat until age eight. When my father retired in 1978, we moved from Dover AFB to Baltimore, Maryland. As a college and Jesuit educated, ex-Captain of the military, my father insisted that his children not pick up the local accents of the areas in which we lived, especially the Baltimore brogue, which seemed to grate on him the most. However, to me, an accent meant, roots. It meant you lived somewhere long enough to develop the local speak. I didn’t have the luxury of staying in one place during early formative years, and I think that is why one’s accent appeals to me and why I pay close attention to every accent I come in contact with envy. Continue reading →

What Really Happened with Fast and Furious

Fortune magazine conducted an investigation into the so-called Fast and Furious scandal. Surprise, surprise, there is both more (and less) to this story than those trying to whip it up into a major crisis for the Obama administration would like you to believe. Continue reading →

The Hollywood Caller: Kenny Powers to Keep On Failing at Most Things

Danny McBride rescues his hair from Sam Worthington and returns to Eastbound & Down ; More superheroes no one asked for; Glee‘s students return to high school we guess; Spidey to challenge The Avengers to a money duel; we lose a great actor from the sliver screen; we get our next ‘Tribute’; Terry Crews spreads his power; and Lifetime will probably make us cry — this has nothing to do with Lindsay Lohan. Continue reading →