Sometimes I just want to scream when the phone rings (sometimes I do) because I keep getting these annoying phone calls from a robot named Lisa from Spectrum who wants to upgrade my system…Ahem, I don’t even have a Spectrum system, nor would I ever at this point....
If you’re expecting to hear something funny, you might as well be reading Mad Magazine or the Sunday funnies, cuz this week’s musing, as Molly said to Fibber, “T’aint funny McGee.” Well, you know what they say, War is Heck, or something to that effect. You know, it...
On her last visit to the States, my dear friend Helen of Leeds (Leeds is a town in northern England where The Who recorded their epic album “Live at Leeds”) commented on the absurdness of the whole concept of Halloween, which is apparently not celebrated in England....
Hi, it’s Uncle Mott again from high atop the bell tower at the stately Motley Manor. Hey, how about that thunderstorm we had a few weeks ago? It was a real whopper, especially when a lightning bolt struck the bell in my belltower. It’s a good thing there were no bats...
Well, here we go again, not just one planned power outage, but two of these nuisances are planned for Oct. 7 and Oct. 14, from 10 p.m. to noon each day. Please excuse me for not being funny this week, although I am funny looking, but this is serious stuff. Edison just...
Back in the day, when I was a little sprout in the OC, my pappy would get me out of bed at the crack of dawn to make me rake leaves after a Santa Ana windstorm. He would say something like, “Up and at ‘em,” which was an old Army saying. Well, I didn’t mind that so...
