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Get used to these sporadic updates, kiddos — and welcome to the LAST Friday of February Zap 5. What have I been doing this week? I got my car inspected and it’s oil changed, did a little shopppin’ — bought some clothes and on Wednesday made an exciting new purchase — a discontinued satellite radio, [...]

Ahhh… I should transition more often… I think my blood pressure is at a record low. To help boost that, rather than exercise, I’ve challenged myself to eBay’s Treasure Hunt… $1000 given away hourly to people who can decipher their wacked out clues. Find the auction their talking about, win $1000. For example, for the [...]

Hunter S. Thompson noted Rolling Stone writer shot himself this weekend at his home in Colorado. What would make someone want to do that so late in the game? Boggles the mind.
Saturday-day was the 1st Annual Ron S. Bar-Sports Triathalon — congrats to Pete & Mike — bar-sports champs of poker - darts - pool [...]

“Everyone that’s risen with great deeds to do… can spend their life with no more than you.. and as they have triumphed and come to skill — you too can be GREAT… if you only will.” There’s one person that knows how that sounds when I read it — kinda like Jesse Jackson doing an [...]

Thanks for the orange crap, but how about some cash-ola for saving your little yappy dogs, lady? Only in New York.
Stern played some clips of Joan and Melissa Rivers on the red carpet at the Grammy’s this morning… I spit up my orange juice from the hilarity. Apparently they don’t really know the names of [...]

So a “Circuit City” plane crashed in Colorado a very horrible loss and sad story … but it’s a good thing they only sell TVs, stereos, and home electronics, right? Too soon? A very strange and unfortunate coincidence that in the same day they announced the shutting of 19 stores, five regional offices and [...]

As one matures, their tastes evolve — the things that excite one as a young lad or lass, may not excite them in the same way as an adult. Take for example, the opening of a grocery store. As a 12 year old, would I care that one has opened near my neighborhood? Probably not. [...]

This weekend for a lil’ romantical getaway we visited the burg.. Harrisonburg, VA for what turned into the Harrisonburg food tour — visiting the key staples: the Joshua Wilton House, Mr. J’s Bagels, Dave’s Taverna, Calhoun’s and the Sleep Inn’s continental breakfast. To cap off the weekend, we also saw “The Wedding Date” — which [...]

I am currently drinking a ditty by Keane called “Sunshine” from their f’ing great May 2004 LP, “Hopes & Fears”. It is pure, creamy refreshment for the ears — it’s as if “Christopher Cross” and “Air” put their goods in a blender, added some ice-cream, pine-apple juice and a guy that looks suspiciously like an [...]

“Lost” has some great f’ing writers — “Office Space” and now “The Office” have been referenced. Last night the British lass that “Charlie” stole from pointed out that her Dad was out of town to “purchase some paper company in Slough” — perhaps the company is called Wernham-Hogg?
Great interview with Mitchell Hurwitz, creator of Arrested [...]