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Holidays – New Year’s Opossum Drop

What are YOU doing for New Year’s? Forget Snooki in a ball, especially now that it’s been moved to Jersey! Instead, how about ringing in the #NewYear with North Carolina’s infamous “Opossum Drop.” Yep, you’ve read correctly. In Brasstown, NC, (on the NC-TN-GA tri-state border) they drop an opossum at midnight*. (*Note: I’m told [...]

American fun – Boston Santa Speedo run

Nothing like good fun that raises money for charity and makes people stop, stare, and smile. Take the 11th year of Boston’s Santa Speedo Run. This year’s event raised more than $210,000, which will benefit three local charities that are making a huge difference in the lives of youth across Massachusetts – Starlight [...]

When I Grow Up – Choreographer

In our continuing look at careers I didn’t try (yet), today we visit with a choreographer. Not just any choreographer. John Jacobson, the choreographer for the song Planet Rock. I’m not sure what to say about his choreography, except to say that it’s a MUST WATCH. I’ve been trying it all morning (especially the [...]

American Fun – Rudolph balloon tragedy

Watch out, Rudolph!

I have not been able to look at a Segway the same since the creator of Segway drove his Segway tragically off that cliff… Now, in the Rudolph balloon tragedy the Segways circle around like vultures at the Christmas Parade in Richmond, Virginia (Home of the Tacky Lights Tour and start [...]

Holidays – Happy Hanukkah

Chanukah or Hanukkah… no matter how you spell it… it’s the Festival of Lights, an 8 day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt. One of my favorite parts of Hanukkah is spinning the dreidel (a 4 sided top) and playing for chocolate. [...]

American Icons – Rockefeller Center Tree

Try stringing five miles of lights!

One of my favorite New York traditions is the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. This year’s tree, a 12-ton, 74-foot Norway Spruce, was cut from the Mahopac, NY, backyard of Peter Acton, a New York City firefighter and September 11th first responder. The majestic beauty [...]

Household tips – Marshmallow roasting

Idea for the weekend: roast marshmallows! It’s cheap, easy, and fun. I LOVE campfires and the debate as to whether “lightly toasted” or “raging flamers” tastes better. On a crisp night, there’s nothing better than marshmallows, a campfire, and hot chocolate or a hot toddy. One warning from my Boy Scout days: be [...]

Travel – Dead Apple Tours

You don’t have to be dead to ride in a hearse.

Why on earth would anyone want to see New York City in one of those giant tour buses with no tops (those things are freezing in the winter), when you can experience the city from the back of a hearse? Dead Apple [...]

American Hype – Social Media Sobriety Test

Beware of drunk Facebookers.

I hope your weekend was nice. In case you haven’t noticed, intoxicated social media posting is an epidemic. (And I don’t mean a few misspelled words or repeating letters!) Webroot, an Internet security company, will now protect you and your loved ones from the dangers of drunk posting by [...]

American icons – Marilyn Monroe stuffing

This week Ted Lee and Dan Lee stepped into the kitchen to make Marilyn Monroe’s stuffing recipe for the New York Times. They found the recipe in the new book “Fragments”- a collection of Marilyn’s scribblings, mostly when she was at the height of her fame and married to Arthur Miller. In it, there’s [...]

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