A Shouting Legacy: Tribute to Billy Mays

The following is a transcript from the recent funeral for Billy Mays, outside Lakeland, Florida.
JOEL OSTEEN:  Ladies and gentlemen… we are gathered here today to remember TV’s Billy Mays; father, husband, host of incessant and  captivating infomercials.  I had planned a rousing sermon on brotherly love and the various avenues available to you if you [...]

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Pee Pee Woman – The Flight Home

“I have to go to the bathroom.”  The young woman next to me tugged at her boyfriend’s sleeve just after takeoff, somewhere around 10,000 feet.  “I really have to go.”  She leaned over to me and tapped me on my shoulder, “Excuse me, I hate to do this, but I really have to pee.”
The thing [...]

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Oh, sorry.

I’ve been in Florida visiting the folks with the girlfriend.  Watching the news, loving that each time they show protesters in Iran, there are more, and more.  Kim Jong Il is probably pissed that his  nuclear reindeer games have been overshadowed by Iran’s ongoing implosion.  Oh, wait, he is, apparently, because he’s threatening Hawaii.  Sort [...]

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Potbelly’s “BIG” Sandwiches

When I first moved to DC back in 2005, people at work kept talking about Potbelly’s.  It was confusing.  When I lived in Tallahassee, Potbelly’s was the best bar in town to get date raped at by a football player… it didn’t seem like the sort of  theme that would translate well into a national [...]

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