Day 641: Our Home And Native Candy

originally published October 2, 2013 When I was eight years old I endured the most boring vacation of my life. There were a few glorious days spent in Disney World and the newly-christened EPCOT, and also an imagination-tickling stop at Cape Canaveral to gawk at Columbia, asleep at her launch pad. But the majority of […]

Day 640: Henry’s Hallowed History

originally published October 1, 2013 I had no idea that a topic so innocent could spiral my clicking finger down an unusual rabbit hole such as this. It’s Candy Week here in my sunny thousand-day purgatory, and where I was eager to sink my sweet-hungry writing-teeth into the backstories of more treats from my youth, […]

Day 639: Giving Myself A Break Of Sorts

originally published September 30, 2013 I used to think I’d reach a point in my adult life when I’d no longer be drawn to candy. I had a notorious childhood sweet tooth and an addiction to mint imperials that in retrospect should have been handled with weekly meetings. But I assumed that one day I’d […]

Day 638: Break Out The Balloons (And Wash Your Hands) – It’s Almost October!

originally published September 29, 2013 By no means am I eager to scoot September out the door and usher in October, which is quite often the beginning of winter in this northern hellscape town I call home. But I’ve got a theme planned for next week’s articles, and I don’t want anyone to miss the […]

Day 637: Great White Way-Out Trivia

originally published September 28, 2013 As the lack of such topics on this site may indicate, I am not a raving fan of Broadway musicals. I’ve seen some that I quite liked and other that were Cats, but they just aren’t my thing. Naturally, I married someone who teaches musical theatre for a living. So […]

Day 636: Welcoming My Year Of Doom

originally published September 27, 2013 The moment I enthusiastically smashed ‘PUBLISH’ yesterday morning, propelling my dreary (yet hopefully at least moderately pithy) tribute to some of history’s worst music onto this site, I surpassed a significant milestone along the rickety trail of this project. Yesterday’s article signalled one year until the epic conclusion of my […]

Day 635: Tuning In The Toxic – Worst Music Part 1

originally published September 26, 2013 After having penned over a dozen entries in this category of the most stench-laden drippings off the roasted fatty carcass of popular culture, I’m stricken by the uncharacteristic neglect on my part in addressing the scuzz at the bottom of the music bucket. Perhaps I’ve been burned too often by […]

Day 634: Old London’s Cobblestone Creeps

originally published September 25, 2013 Nineteenth-century London was known for a few things: Dickensian gentlemen sporting all sorts of snazzy hat-wear, Poppinsian ladies singing songs about eating sugar with a spoon, and sexually deviant psychopaths wandering the foggy London streets. Needless to say, it’s that third group I find most fascinating. Not all the smarmy […]

Day 633: Cue The Laughs

originally published September 24, 2013 It is not the trait of which I am most proud, however it would be dishonest of me to deny the fact that I am a humor snob. Not to say I cull my giggles solely from the droll and waggish cartoons in the New Yorker – I’ll admit it, […]

Day 632: Einstein’s Others

originally published September 23, 2013 Someone once asked me if I’d take a thousandth of this project to explain Einstein’s theory of relativity in plain, common-sense layman-speak. I replied that this had been done on numerous occasions, in fact I think they even tried to do it in an Archie comic once. And besides, isn’t […]