I'm not much of one for the fast-food experience: long lines, food that feels good going in but rarely feels as good an hour or two later, and prices that have me preferring…
I love the whole super-hero genre of films and TV series. Not the actual print comics, per se, and not the animated stuff, but the films, the movies, the one with humans, metas…
It's not often a child actor transitions well to a successful acting career as an adult, but Harry Melling has, imo, done so brilliantly ... and unexpectedly.
I didn't even RECOGNIZE Dudley Dursley of…
I love the Interwebs. I love the Omeleto movies. Some are more fabulous than others. This one was adorable.
I've practically given up. I feel the world of product pricing is all over the place, and I don't know what to do, or how much attention I can or should give the…
Such a wacky world: finding the same products -- the exact same products -- sold online for wildly different prices; having to figure out if Amazon's jacked-pricing is a better deal than going…
A New York Times article addressed how “everything is for sale,” and it was looking at how celebrities are marketing their brand, among other subjects.
Who knew? Who knew? Who knew That it was…
It was a moment in time. The meme world was on fire. I took advantage of it. And a friend, of their own initiation, did a nice job photoshopping me into the perfect…
While the interwebs are filled with photos of glamorous, hot, sexy, booty-short-wearing women (and men) at #BurningMan… women with inexplicably clean hair, with boots they couldn’t walk more than 20 yards in (and never…
Burning Man MOOP map, 2006 – 2013
Burning Man is the world’s largest Leave No Trace (LNT) event. Each year, after the attendees depart and go back home, a crew of people…
I know it’s not an exact match, but I see some similarities. In 1946, my aunt, Rosellen Howell (whom, growing up, I called Aunt Zellie), headed to New York City at the ripe…
The Economist, in an article called “The Big C,” had some information I’d like to share here. If you’re a regular reader of Hometown Columbia, you may have gleaned by now, that the…