Happy Thanksgiving

Time to prep the bird and get it in the oven.  We’ll be catering for my parents again this year, even though it’s quite a drive.  Gentlemen, start your coolers . . .

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Keene Slips and Dies

By Russell Nayle
The report of a murder in Lewisburg came over my police scanner just before noon on November 3, 2009.  Nothing ever happens in Lewisburg.  There was a guy – a county prosecutor or something like that, who simply drove off in his Mini a few years ago, and never returned — but that [...]

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Coho

Back in June, wild Alaskan sockeye was the thing.  I got a whole side of that for $21.  It lasted for four days.  We bears like our salmon.  It makes our coats glisten, or whatever.  Mostly, it just tastes yummy.
Yesterday’s deal was wild-caught Alaskan coho for $14 a lb.  I bought a whole side of [...]

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Happy Halloween

This is my favorite holiday of the year.  The fact that it’s Saturday means that I don’t have to dash through a major commuter train station in NYC or Philly, but can dress like a freak, and hand out bags of pretzels with impunity.
Pretzels?  Yes, pretzels.  I’ve no idea how many kids will stop by, [...]

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Die Comcast, Die

I pulled the plug on Comcast, figuratively and literally.  I’ve had it with their service outages; their billing shenanigans is merely the last straw.  They claimed our one-year pricing agreement was only good for six months, then started billing us full rate for one more tier of TV service than we ever recieved, claiming we’d [...]

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