It’s rare to find him during the busiest weeks leading to his busiest night of the year, but our favorite Fake News Reporter (FNR) managed to stumble upon him again. Santa Claus was sitting on the tailgate of his Ruby Red 1945 Dodge pick-up, smoking a long-stemmed Meerschaum pipe, while Mrs. Claus was picking up supplies needed by one of …
While being interviewed, Santa agreed to answer 10 questions. His interviews can be found at: Interview with Santa, Dec. 2017 Catching Up With Santa, Dec. 2018 1. Santa, what is your favorite cookies? Well, despite everyone believe I prefer chocolate chips cookies, I really prefer oatmeal raisins or fruitcake cookies. The story about chocolate chip cookies was started by a …
Hats (Part I): Are you covered…. Most people may not realize it, or think it’s something made up for Hollywood movies, but wearing hats used to be an everyday occurrence for men. Long before the popularity of ball caps, men used to wear Bowlers, Fedora’s, flat caps and cowboy hats as part of their daily clothing. Now it has become …
Pappy’s Rules for hats… The following rules have nothing to do with the etiquette of wearing hats that I mentioned in “Where have all the hats gone…” In fact, what follows are not rules per se, but more guidelines that I believe in. Rule 1. Everyone can wear a hat but every hat doesn’t “fit” every wearer or occasion. There …
It happens after Thanksgiving every year. Mrs. Pappy Claus and I start our annual Christmas gift shopping and people stop and look twice or thrice at me. One time, we were eating lunch and a nice lady stopped by our table and said, “My grandson saw him and said, “Look! Santa’s eating lunch but that’s not Mrs. Claus!” She also …
The Thanksgiving Smoke… Whilst sitting and contemplating what I will be smoking today, I have these thoughts… There are a lot of things I have to be thankful for. I am thankful that I survived a childhood before the advent of video games and electronic devices. I survived a childhood where we played outside – sometimes from daybreak to after …
Enough! Stop making changes for change or PC sake! I’ve had it! I am tired of the comic book and movie companies who currently own the “rights” to old and well known movie characters arbitrarily making changes that are unnecessary, unwanted and ridiculous. Marvel recently announced that its next Thor movie would feature a female Thor. Why? Because in this …
How About Those Washington Savages? Or, is it the Washington Politicians? Maybe it’s the Washington… Like a small grassy island sitting in the Louisiana marsh is eventually eroded away by the tidal currents, the name “Washington Redskins” will inevitably succumb to the tide of political correctness – I mean public opinion and pressure and government meddling – …
It has been almost a week since the President gave his pre-game pep talk about creating jobs and stimulating the economy and the silence from the media on some aspects of his proposal is deafening. According to reports I read about the contents of the speech from the major media, President Obama included an interesting proposal for a tax cut. …
These are my rules and you can’t have them. I developed them during my years as a U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist/photojournalist and as a magazine editor. Never Lie to the media. If they are halfway competent or three-quarters lucky, they will catch you at it. If you don’t know the answer to a question then the correct answer …
