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After June 21 it will start getting shorter. In the meantime you can put up any shades or curtains you want, just as long as any holes get filled in when you move out.

Scared Straight. That started as a documentary in 1978 to try to steer kids clear of ending up in jail. It was shot at Rahway Prison in NJ. Rahway is like Alcatraz, Sing Sing, and Riker’s Island combined. This is where hardcore murderers and rapists are sent. Scared Straight was a noble idea...

When I worked at Penney’s, we used to have kids shoplifting all the time. If they got caught, they got hauled off to the police station, and their parents had to bail them out. If you’re over 21, that’s a ticket to jail. They’ll put you in a cell with a big guy named Tiny telling you, “Hey...

You got off light. You could’ve faced more serious charges, like spending a night in jail.

Some ribs come with a dry rub on them, so they’re not quite as messy.

I don’t think it’s feeling entitled. But some customers treat the fast food kids like dirt In my restaurant days, if a steak came out of the kitchen well done and the customer ordered it rare, of course we’ll do everything to make it right. Some customers do take it to extremes. I can...

This is similar to what I did at BKwhen I was sixteen. Back here you put the burger together, but you don’t have contact with the customers. The people who take the orders and the money deal with the customers. Back in the 70s BK had their jingle Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce. Special...

When I visited my sister in Nashville in 2012, Hardee’s had a bacon BBQ burger unlike anything we had back home. We stopped at l ast three times, I couldn’t get enough of this thing. Now this burger is pretty common at the better burger joints up here. Wendy’s had a decent version last year. But...

Mayo on a burger is more of a California thing, but not bad.

It used to be unheard of to have mustard on a burger. The first time I ever saw it was once in high school we took a trip down South and stopped at Hardee’s. I opened up my burger and saw mustard on there and thought WHAT???!!! actually, pretty decent. Once upon a time, we had Hardee’s up...

Exactly. I don’t go to a restaurant to choose up political sides. I go for good food.

One restaurant I love is Cracker Barrel. It serves Southern cooking, but we have them up here too. A few years back, when I was in the hospital recovering from my stroke, there was a post on the nutritional value for Cracker Barrel’s menu. It shook me up. The fat, calories and salt can kill you...

There was a couple that loved McD’s so much they catered their wedding. The best thing the Storm can do is puke his brains out. I can tackle two McDoubles, twenty is inviting pain.

Just a random thought. Back in the 70d, there was a genre in Hollywood called the Disaster movie. It started in 1972 with The Poseidon Adventure and for the rest of the decade, studios would use the formula of an all-star cast, some pretty decent special effects (no CGI yet, most were done with...

Andy Kaufman was a difficult guy to read. Borderline genius, borderline nut job. The Taxi cast was an embarrassment of talent. Besides their interactions on the set, Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito were brilliant as inmates in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Great stuff.

One of my favorite groups of all time we’re the Kinks. They were part of the 60’s British Invasion along with the Beatles, Stones, and a million others. They hit it right off with You Really Got Me, for 1964, could be the first Heavy Metal song (later covered by Van Halen). The Kinks’ main focus...

Texas Toast is great. But it’s not strong enough to hold a sandwich that big. Two patties would be plenty for me. Still a great creation.

How about that. I stumbled on to Franklin around 2000. By that time I had long outgrown Sesame Street, and I had no reason to be watching PBS Kids. I paid a passing glance to Arthur, Dragon Tales, Caillou, etc. But it was obvious these shows were for somebody else’s generation, not mine. But...

Found an old Franklin book. They were nice, and 20 years or so ago, I was catching a few episodes. Two curious things about Franklin. The opening of every episode, “Franklin can count by two’s and tie his shoes”. But Franklin never wore shoes. Hockey skates, yes, but the rest of the time he...

One man’s gross is another man’s yum.