Hop on Pop no more and other weird, wacky stories of people getting out of sticky situations It’s been a long week. A long weekend in that I spent four hours shopping for a dress to only come home and find the perfect one (brand new […]
I am not a big party person. I like to go dancing at the clubs and go to a bar and have a few cocktails. Throwing a party in my house so that people can stomp all over and I have to then clean up afterwards….well, not so […]
What’s an Easter egg hunt or a beach without a dead body: This week’s weird and wacky news Even thousands of miles away, there is a slew of wacky news for me to stay on top of. I experienced my own moment of wackiness when I tried […]
Howl on a bloodstone: belt out your pain Last month in 1957, US. Customs seized hundreds of copies of Allan Ginsberg’s Howl. Today, Howl is free to hang around the shelves of many libraries, no longer subject to massive protests. I, thus, felt inspired to write a little piece. […]
New Yorkers terrorized by a rat and a nine-month attempted murder: this week’s weird and wacky news for me to obsess about Close to two decades ago, I became obsessed with monitoring the news. I vividly remember the television coverage, and that in particular of the […]
Creativity in pranks, viruses and retaliation The past week has been one of high hijinks and wacky pronouncements. April Fool’s day is a day when we can all tap into our creativity well and dig out some nifty tricks. Google tried out a silly Pokemon April Fool’s […]
March and Mother Nature are Playing Tricks on Me Laguardia, Wrestlemania and Selena on my mind as winter draws to its final end The month of March has been winding down ever the more slowly. February went by in a flash, but March has been a bit of […]
Love Crime, Acts of Love, and wacky love bits: this week’s weird news It is almost April 1st –the grand day of mischievous April fool’s acts. It’s nice that April fool’s falls about six weeks after Valentines. Imagine if they fell on the same day. For many, they […]
Stepping in the Goop: singing the motherhood blues It seems every four months or so, there is a media storm surrounding some outlandish pronouncement about motherhood and who has it worse. Meaning, who is more harried, hurried, and worried. I am currently standing on a metro north platform […]
Some wacky life-lessons for all ages from this past week’s weird news Being on the road three weeks straight meant that I could not keep up with my weekly wacky news column. However, the world didn’t bother to pause in its wacky tracks. We now have CNN news […]