You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Blue plate café in Memphis. It’s southern fried goodness dripping with cholesterol filled loveliness. This venerable eatery is hot sauce and chili peppers that transform your mouth into a Fourth of July fire works celebration. According to the owners “Southern cooking and southern hospitality is what we […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Thanksgiving Morning. My house is quiet, but my TV is alive with the themes of the day. ESPN is previewing one of 3 football games on my Thanksgiving day horizon. Cowboys and Packers and Brett Farve is returning to Green Bay to have his #4 retired. […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s Crazy™ Thanksgiving. It’s wonderful and rejuvenating but at the same time it can be CRAZY! Thanksgiving can be a Hallmark card complete with all the fixings. Thanksgiving can also be the mad hatters tea cup ride spinning into a reverse peristalsis tornado. I’ve seen a few Thanksgivings […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Bond. James Bond. He’s shaken, not stirred, in this latest installment of the spy series. SPECTRE. The film attempts to tie up the previous 3 Daniel Craig films; Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. Spectre reintroduces Bond fans to the evil organization that Sean Connery […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The 911 call. It came with a warning from the 911 center. “Good luck. There’s not much you can understand on it.” I double click on the file and begin listening. They’re right. It’s mumbling and crying and babbling. It’s a shriek and pain. It’s a […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy! Frivolous lawsuits by frivolous people involving frivolous frivolousness. Yeah I said it; Frivolousness. I know it’s not a word, well, ok it is a word, but is not a word that normal people should use frivolously. Go to the dictionary and look up the word Frivolousness: you’ll […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Red Zone Channel. That’s 703 on your DirecTV dial. It’s crack for a football fan. It’s all the games playing at once. It’s Andrew Sicilliano, the studio host, monitoring every game going on. That’s 7 games, 14 teams, simultaneously. It’s like monitoring 14 blenders, NO TOPS […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. The Paris Terror Attacks. The AP breaks the news to me Friday afternoon on my computer DING! Huh? Then ABC news breaks into programming. The headline is startling. 18 people dead in a terror attack is all we know. Within hours, that number would double, triple, quadruple. […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ Drinking beers on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport. Nobody would think about doing this now, but back in the day, before 9 1 1, before al Qaida, before Osama bin laden, we did the unthinkable.Back in college, on warm Friday nights, we’d go down […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Job. I’m at the crime tape. It’s a warm November day. The sun is shining and the neighbors pausing long enough to gander at the spectacle staining their street. The Medical Examiner’s van arrives. It is a dark SUV, ominous, foreboding. It has a Metro […]