Coffee With Kevin (Costner, That Is)
I’ve never been one to purchase a product based on a celebrity endorsement. If anything, it rankles me to think that I should put a nickel in the pocket of these rich and famous types, […]
Author: Curt MacDougall
From airborne traffic reporter to marketing shlub and TV news producer, it’s been an interesting ride. Now I’m trying to get in on David Sedaris’ action.
Those Wascally Wabbits
Gather ‘round, kids – it’s time for another installment of ‘Master…I’m sorry, a slip of the tongue, there…I meant to say ‘Disaster Gardener.’ The thing is, I’ve been butchering plant life the majority of my […]
The One About Raquel Welch And My Colon
I’m a child of the sixties and seventies – our legacy is dancing naked in the mud at Woodstock and protesting a war which made little sense and Hunter S. Thompson driving through the desert […]
The Perfect Metaphor for a COVID Christmas
It started with a garage sale a few months ago. My wife is always on the lookout for ‘vintage’ items (however you define the term) since getting her mid-mod groove on a while back. Lamps […]
When Tupperware Attacks
There are those rare moments when the secrets of the universe reveal themselves to us, and we are shown our purpose here on this spec of dust hurtling through the blackness of space. And if […]
Technology’s Finest Hour
Alright, I’m calling it – the machines have won. The unraveling of Western Civilization has begun. And it didn’t take Skynet with its implacable Austrian cyborgs from the future to bring our demise, or even […]
Is This Heaven?
So here I am watching another Kevin Costner ‘baseball’ movie. Hard to tell which one…maybe Field of Dreams or Bull Durham, or that one where he’s an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Actually, I […]
Requiem for a Toaster
As near as we can figure, it dates from 1999 – a gift to christen the newly renovated kitchen at our previous house. It was ever the cheerful toaster, like a ray of sunshine in […]
Doh! Tannenbaum…
It’s time to put up the tree again. I know this because my wife has been dropping those subtle hints for a few days now – watching Bing and Danny and Rosemary and Vera on […]
Christmas and the Y-Chromosome
It’s the time of year when we work that “Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men” stuff pretty hard. A nice gesture, perhaps, but I really don’t think we can achieve that first goal so long […]