I shouldn’t wonder why I didn’t find my love of the outdoors while I was a Boy Scout. Most of my memories involve either missing home (because my good friends weren’t a part of my troop), peeing on things with a bunch of other boys, only taking...
The last time Whole Foods co-founder/former CEO John Mackey made the news, it was for his controversial statements about global warming and Obama’s health care plan. Take those however you will, but there’s more to Mackey than that. The story...
As we all know, I am a huge fan of professional wrestling, and have been watching it for most of my life. Yet somehow, I haven’t written up too many pro wrestlers for Awesome Men Throughout History. The reason for that, I think, is because a lot...
Let me try this one out on you: If Alice Eve is this awesome I can’t wait for Alice Day! Of course, if you, like me, use Christmas Eve to open presents and never have celebrated an All Saints Day in your life but have pranced like mad in a costume on...
This morning I got to thinking about my past addresses. The most recent ones come easy, 601, 4415, 1340 and 1712, and the ones growing up do as well, 1817 and 1814. Just looking at those numbers, and you are right if you say there may be a little selection...
Huy Fong Foods—makers of Sriracha hot sauce—isn’t your typical start-up business. They don’t have an official Facebook page or Twitter account, they don’t seek out much press, and they don’t even advertise their hot sauce beyond...
Since I’ve been born, I’ve had a connection to the lovely Heather Graham. That’s because we were born on the same day, though different years. I could say the same about Tom Selleck, Oprah Winfrey, Jeph Loeb, W.C. Fields, Adam Lambert, Hank Conger...
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well” is a saying that I’ve lived by for years. It’s become sort of a mantra for me, in fact, and it’s something that a lot of TSB readers probably know to be true as...
Have you ever sat in the first row of an event? My first time that I remember came behind home plate at Sky Sox game in Colorado Springs and I have to admit, I was not impressed. Yes, I got to see the movement on pitches a lot better than I had before....
Trying to compose this sentence, I’ve stopped and started as I finally figured out a way to concisely say, I like information. Back in the days before the internet, I had three indispensable reference books. The Leonard Maltin movie guide (and why I...