Though I avoid shopping and am not asking for anything at Christmas except “world peace”, I do have suggestions concerning gift ideas for guys. Having received weird, sometimes embarrassing “useless” gifts in the past, I will pass along some good ideas for Christmas shoppers. Always a hit at Christmas time, and something a guy can [...]
The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally the beginning of the Christmas holiday shopping season. It has come to be known as “Black Friday”. Initially, “Black Friday” was a term police used to describe the traffic jams on this big shopping day. Long before the term was attributed to this one day of extravagance, it carried [...]
I went to the University Place/Lakewood Wal-Mart yesterday to pick up a vacuum cleaner belt. My father and I went together. As we walked in someone said “Welcome to Wal-Mart” as usual. We noticed happily that there were hardly any people in the aisles. It was great! It was like Wal-Mart was all ours. I have to admit [...]
Diane Linkletter, daughter of radio and TV host Art Linkletter, fell to her death on the morning of October 4, 1969. Her brother, Robert, reported that Diane had called him just before 9am, sounding upset and disoriented. She had called a friend, Ed Durston, earlier that morning, around 3am. He came over to her apartment, they [...]
The motion picture “Casablanca” had its world premiere in New York City in 1942. In 1956, bandleader Tommy Dorsey was found dead at his Connecticut home after apparently choking. He was 51. In 1962, The Beatles recorded “Please Please Me.” In 1968, Cream performed its farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Guitarist [...]
If you saw the movie with Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment, then you know of the premise, “one good deed deserves another”. Otherwise, something similar would be “do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”. It was, and is a wonderful idea, that may work, if the “chain” is [...]
