Year: 2007

  • Best and worst gifts of 2007

    Of course, this will be a personal list. If you have a hankering to mention a particularly tasteful or -less gift of your own, please comment below.     WORST   1. Body Fat Scale (from one fat ass to another?) On Christmas evening, after I’d had my fill of sugar cookies, at the most…

  • Looking Back on 2007

    Say you were offered the option to go forward or backward in a time machine. Which would you choose? If science fiction is any indication, most people would leap ahead to find out what the world will be like at some future time. Me? I’d go back: to the Last Supper, to Ludwig Beethoven’s Vienna,…

  • Bring on 2008!

    Today is the last day of 2007. Happy almost New Year!   Spend a little time today reflecting on the year gone by; then move onward and welcome the new year head on, without ever turning back. That’s the key, folks — keep moving forward. Always move forward. Here are a few items to help…

  • birthday rally

    Midwest appeal

  • Zimmern's Complaint

    Here’s what happened. Mitch Omer — one of my dearest friends in this world — showed up at my house on Thanksgiving with a red-lined version of Andrew Zimmern’s December column, livid about some of the things it contained. Mitch railed. I defended Andrew on many points. We got into a bit of a tiff,…

  • All the Pretty Horses