I was tagged by LadyTurpentine: 1. I didn’t attend a full year of Kindergarten. I was in Day Care and pre-school from the age of 3. When Kindergarten came around, both my parents worked and couldn’t find a babysitter for the half day. I also already knew how to read and write and Kindergarten is [...]

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Directly from Nick Rocks! Woo Hoo! I think I taped that episode. This was made at MTV studios for MTV in Christmas 1986 which was also shown on the MTV sister station Nickelodeon. Can you see all the other Monkee family members in the video? Look for Ami Dolenz and Jessica Jones.

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“Why Frosty?” Yuletide crime victims ask As many learn, ’tis the season for snowman stabbing, Grinch snatching The Associated Press Updated: 10:28 p.m. ET Dec 23, 2006 NEW YORK – There’s nobody nice on this Christmas list: snowman stabbers, Grinch snatchers, wreath-robbing weasels. ‘Tis the season for strange crimes by even stranger people, with police [...]

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Unbelievable. It’s no wonder I cannot stand the holidays and people during the holidays. So far today I’ve been told to FUCK OFF. I’ve heard complaints about how fucked up the company is because of some ads on a webpage. This is just the beginning of the shift, I’m sure there will be more once [...]

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First, I love the way this song starts out. Acoustic guitar. Very mellow. It reminds me of an olde English tune. When listening to it, it gives you that “Christmas warmth’ feeling. You know the feeling of sitting in front of a fireplace with hot cocoa but you have no cocoa and no fireplace? Yeah. [...]

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This just came up on my homepage of google.com. It was the “How To” of the day. http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Junk-Mail Get rid of credit card solicitations in the US, by phoning 1-888-5 OPT OUT (or 1-888-567-8688). It is an automated number. Listen to the options carefully. The opt-out is good for several years, but it’s well worth [...]

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There was a time, Sesame Street did not have Elmo. Does anyone remember that? The only person who said, “ME LIKE FOOD!” and spoke in the third person was Cookie Monster. Those were the good ol’ days. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street is an hour-long Sesame Street Christmas special that premiered on PBS on December [...]

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This was awesome news from TorontoMike. http://www.mikeboon.com/2006/12/toronto_star_exposure.html You can subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast here: http://www.humbleandfred.com/podcast.xml

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Festivus poles now are for the rest of us Company turns out symbols of fake holiday made popular on “Seinfeld” Updated: 9:15 p.m. ET Dec 21, 2006 MILWAUKEE – Kevin Campanella hates buying and receiving Christmas presents that he says inevitably disappoint. This year, no such worries. Campanella plans to seek “serenity now” by celebrating [...]

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This one time at band camp…. No, I never went to band camp, but I did play in the band the first couple of years of college. Some good memories of playing tunes like the above, and some shitty memories like going out of our way to play at Newfane High School because three students [...]

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