I recently signed a two-year contract extension with Verizon Wireless, and was given the opportunity to choose a shiny new phone “free of charge,” in exchange for my promise to send them a wheelbarrow full of cash for 24 months in a row.
I went with the LG enV, and so far I like it. The [...]
A couple of years ago I didn’t know a thing about Jean Shepherd. I’d seen his name associated with A Christmas Story, one of my favorite holiday movies, and had assumed he was a woman. I mean, Jean, spelled with a J, is a woman’s name, isn’t it?
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But, of course, he was a man. In [...]
In 1996 I moved from Atlanta to southern California, and was forced to learn a slew of new phrases; things like “sig alert,” “looky-loo,” “tri-tip,” and “earthquake weather.”
Almost immediately I was also awarded a speeding ticket (who knew there were places where speed limits are actually enforced?). And I found out I could keep the [...]