Walmart had a variety pack of Good Humor Ice Cream available, so my husband and I decided to try it.  The variety pack contains 8 sundae cones, which are vanilla ice cream in a sugar cone with chocolate flavored topping and roasted peanuts, 10 sandwiches, which are comprised of vanilla ice cream between two chocolate wafers, and 12 ice cream bars, which are vanilla light ice cream with a c...

You hear about online free trial scams but I thought i was too smart. Rubber chicken cards advertises a free trial offer but refuses to address cancellations requests via email until well after the deadline had passed. I think  $19.95 is a ripoff for sending one (1) greeting card but rubberchicken cards is so desperate for your cash they don't care what they have to do to get it. ...

The theme I wanted for my wedding was "Simple and Elegant" and it was.  However, there was one thing I saw that I had to have that really didn't fit this idea... my cake topper.  I chose a cake topper that has a groom trying to run away from his bride but he can't because he has a ball and chain attached to his ankle.  The bride is standing with her hands on her...

As a woman in her thirties with friends that have gone through the heartbreak of infertility, this book caught my eye.  Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother by Peggy Orenstein is an eye-opening and humorous look at one woman's journey.  The au...

Author Connie Fletcher explores the mind of cops in this national bestseller. She interviews cops who have seen it all from prostition to drug busts to homicide victims. Now unfortunetly this book only tells about certain crimes which include drugs, homicide, rapes and prostition. there isn't much else i guess but i wish they would have talked about other crimes and just weird stories. &nbs...

As a die-hard sports fan, I love collecting things connected to my favorite teams. Although I love football and watch other sports also, baseball is my first love. My closet and office are filled with shirts, jackets, books, autographed baseballs, bats, photos and many more items related to my obsession for sports. I've got t-shirts that I bought back in the 1970s. They no longer fit, but d...

I will admit, after this movie, I'm converted over to the dark side of comedy, because normally, I like typical comedy. This is a movie I would typically categorize as 'male oriented'-- a guys' movie. During which I normally roll my eyes and sigh. But this one had me laughing out loud within the first five minutes. Just as 'Knocked Up' (despite its misogynistic title) ma...

Living in Scotland for many years taught me to appreciate British humor.   While most days I am stuck watching BBC America of PBS to get my fix of that great English humor every once in a while a great British film will make it big state side.  Hot Fuzz tells the story of police constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) who is transferred to a small and seemingly peaceful villag...

I'm one of those people who loves to send greeting cards.  I'm also one of those people who doesn't like the sappy and sentimental cards.  I prefer a humorous card with a little bit of bite.  These types of cards are quite often referred to as alternative greeting cards.I have purchased several of Oatmeal Studios Happy Birthday card line.  The cards are funny and...

When Grace Hawkins comes to work as a housekeeper at the vicar's family at a small English town of Big Wallop, she finds the family to be far from happy. Mr. Goodfellow, the vicar, is struggling to make his boring sermons better. He appears to have lost all connection with his wife and two children who each live their separate life. The wife, Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas), is about to start...

Calvin (Marlon Wayans), a midget criminal, is just released from jail. He immediately teams up with his buddy Percy to steal a huge diamond. They steal it successfully right from the store (full of people who do not notice anything), but as they try to get away things go wrong, and Calvin is forced to get rid of the diamond by dropping in into an unsuspecting young woman's purse. The crimin...

We rented the Simpsons Movie over the New Year holiday weekend. I actually wasn't too thrilled about seeing it. I think the Simpsons are okay and the plot on their television shows are usually kind of lame, but my fourteen year old stepson really wanted to watch it, so we rented it for him. It actually wasn't that bad! There was some of that corny, somewhat inappropriate humor, but ther...

This book was not what I expected when I bought it. Instead of being a novel, it is basically a collection of Barry's year in review columns, which can be seen in the newspaper the last week of December of each year.He has compiled the columns from the years 2000 to 2006, hence the history of the millenium. There is a cute kind of prologue where he discusses ancient history up to this ...

This hilarious book is a collection of blog entries written by Angela Nissel when she was a broke college student. It reads more like a diary than a novel, whick actually seems to make it more interesting. Her misadventures range from trying to keep the phone and electricity through various degrees of deception and begging to going on dates just for the free dinner--and once even endi...

I have been collecting issues of "Mad Magazine" since I was a child.  I fell in love with this crazy, warped humor publication when I first sneaked a copy from a classmate in elementary school.  It's satire is uproariously funny, edgy and so politically incorrect.  My reading this magazine is probably why I was such a precocious kid and a big reason I gain...

I personally think that Woody Allen is one of the geniuses of our time and I have been pretty obsessed with his films and writing, since I first saw Take the Money and Run many years ago.  Now, of course, he has become "well-respected" and "distinguished", but I liked the "old" Woody, when he was really funny and off-the-wall, not above being ridicul...

  There is a whole generation of people who never even heard of Dorothy Parker and it's really a shame, because she was one of the best writers this country ever had, in terms of satire. I first came across some of her short stories when I was a kid, during one of the frequent trips to the library my mother took me on.  I absolutely loved reading anything by writers I wasn't f...

Ah yes, there's nothing quite like writing an electronic review about a dead-tree version of a notebook. Not to mention, the irony that I originally wrote this review in said notebook. But, the truth is that practically no one really writes reviews for notebooks. However, because of my rising interest within writing stories and drawing pictures, I might as well do the unthinkable. This spe...

For my daughters recent birthday one of her friends gave her a Hallmark card that features the animated characters Hoops and Yoyo. It is one in a series of cards that Hallmark offers featuring these characters and their friends. I had never seen this line of cards before then and I have to admit, it is really cute.The outside of the card is printed with a picture of the character...

These caricature woodcarvings by Carl Johan Tryyg and his three sons from Sweden depict some of the more unusual characters found along the waterfront in Montreal, their transplanted home.  They are cut from individual pieces of either basswood or pine and mounted on a base. The faces are unusual in a flat plane carving style, the features overemphasized. The paint colours are al...