I’m categorically against self-checkout. I mean I’m already doing all the work. But it’s even worse, the machines are so theft-avoidant that you’ve got to follow a specific routine, not only scanning the item, but placing it on a platform to register its weight, grocery shopping is frustrating enough already. And every time I’m forced […]

I’m amazed but not surprised to see you talking about Grillos pickles! I met Travis Grillo back in 2008 when he first started selling pickle spears (two spears for $1) in downtown Boston. Working first from his car, and then setting up a pickle cart, he used his family’s recipe that was simply amazing. I […]

Home All it took was a push from my nutritionist. (Of course I have a nutritionist, I live in California! No, seriously, I go to the nutritionist because I have insanely high cholesterol when untreated. But now with a combination of Crestor and Zetia Boston Heart tells me my numbers are very low, in the […]

1 Klaus Meine is intelligent and articulate. So if you listen to the “Wind of Change” podcast, and I recommend that you do, they eventually confront Klaus Meine regarding the CIA’s theoretical participation in the creation of the Scorpions song. Now living through the eighties, the only “metal” band that really got respect was Guns […]