Lessons Learned from the Movie Desperado

Never run drugs for men who have house payments. The bartender sometimes never gets killed. If you ask a bar full of armed men about a man who calls himself “Bucho”, prepare for an emotional response. Sometimes a man is most dangerous when his ankle is shattered and he is lying in the dirt. Pretty […]

Why Popeye is Better Than Spiderman

Popeye got his strength from touching the head of a wiffle hen… and, later from eating spinach, the finest of the leafy vegetables; Peter Parker got his strength from a lousy bug-bite. Popeye goes by his birth name, “Popeye”. Peter Parker invented the persona of Spiderman to keep from complicating his personal life. How’d that […]

Random Thoughts, Part the Third

Turns out, The Vagina Monologues is NOT a ventriloquist act. ֎֎֎ They called it a “Wake” but by the end, I could barely keep my eyes open. ֎֎֎ You always sound smarter if you use the words “Crimean” or “Symbiotic”. ֎֎֎ If you named your son “Jeff”, you weren’t really trying very hard. ֎֎֎ There […]

Tips for Cold and Flu Season

Sterilize your home and office with rubbing alcohol. Then sterilize the bottle you keep the rubbing alcohol in. Think of the entire world as one giant germ and yourself as the world’s largest petri dish… . Stay home. If you are like tens of millions of Americans, you earn zero hours of sick time for […]

Extra-Galactic Planets and Peanut Butter

Well, you knew it was gonna happen but I’ll bet you didn’t think it would happen so soon. No, I’m NOT talking about a general anesthesia that also has the great taste of peanut butter, although that IS on the horizon. I’m not talking about the cure for cancer which might’ve been announced last week; […]