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Happy Birthday Mom! You still look as fabulous as you did here.

It was nothing but a con Joba. A New Jersey screwball who is a dead ringer for Joba Chamberlain told The Post he enjoyed summer of fun impersonating the Yankee pitcher - improving his stats with the ladies, while scoring free food and … The rest is here:

Hey, kids.   I’ll be off for a bit. I’m heading up north.   To storm some castles, annoy some asshole-squirrels, and chase down some monster fish. In the mean time,  here’s one of my old posts. Actually, it’s the first one I ever did.  And it’s one of my personal favorites.

************************************************************************************************** If there were aliens observing us, they’d find this whole Olympic thing pretty funny. I could just imagine their report: “Every fourth orbit around the sun, the hairless apes on the Third Planet

In honor of the Olympics, when international pride and cultural curiosity run high, I thought I’d share with you one of the best places to get some good ol’ non-American treats. From Jammy Dodgers and Digestive Biscuits to curry powder and fat little rose-scattered tea pots, The Friar Tuck Shop gives

Author’s Note: Here’s the latest draft of my childrens’ book.    Any comments or constructive feedback more than welcome. ********************************************* This is my dog Basil. He’s a big old friendly dog. But sometimes he behaves funny. He’s…well…a “special” kind of dog.

Pick an object, any random object.   And I’ll write a ”deep, meaningful” post about it,  using it as a metaphor to explain the intricacies of Life.    For example: Vacuum cleaners Life is like vacuuming.   You pass the vacuum cleaner over the carpet and remove all the undesirable dust and dirt.   

I know this is true, because Hollywood tells me so: Every Asian is an expert in Kung-Fu, and they’re ready to use it at a moment’s notice. Similarly, everyone in Japan has Ninja skills, and is an expert with a samurai sword.

Any guesses as to how they traditionally hunted buffalo hundreds of years ago? I think the sign pretty much explains it. For more information, check out www.head-smashed-in.com. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site, no less. (Regardless of what happened to the poor buffalo, it’s still a pretty cool name for a web page, you gotta admit).

(*) Definition: Tou*ron: noun. A tourist moron. Video-Taping Life it Instead of Living It. Imagine a beautiful fairyland of orange-red pillars of sandstone, colored so brightly that the rocks seem to glow from within. That’s Bryce Canyon National Park, in Utah.