Before I get to this brief soda recommendation, I should note that I am generally in favor of fruit-flavored colas. When given a choice between regular Coca-Cola and Cherry Coke, I will pick cherry 10 of 10 times. Same with Pepsi. The thing is, though, not all fruits work well in cola, or perhaps it’s… Read More That was unexpected: Mango Pepsi is good!
A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling the itch to open a pack of something I wouldn’t normally buy: A sport or a set I’m not in the habit of collecting, maybe. I browsed eBay and settled on soccer, but the issue with soccer is there are so many leagues and competitions that there’s… Read More Packs R 4 Suckers: An Evolvingly Cynical View of Sports Card Collecting
I’ve learned some stuff over the last several months of re-entering the sports card collecting hobby, and one of the things I’ve learned is, at the level that I’m collecting, the most important thing really is connection and enthusiasm for the cards you have. Buying favorite players, collecting favorite teams, going back into my own… Read More Blast From the Packs: Reminiscence Bites, Vol. 2
Before we get started, a couple of disclaimers. First, I am not gluten intolerant, but my wife is, so I’ve had occasion to dip into the world of gluten free foods, and have been mostly pleasantly surprised at the quality of stuff out there. These Tate’s ginger zingers are gluten free, made with rice flour.… Read More More like WIN-ger: Tate’s gluten free ginger zinger cookies
I don’t vacuum my apartment enough. My wife would tell you that. We have three cats and they shed, and mixed with all the other normal dust and human hair (including my wife’s) that falls to the ground on a daily basis, vacuuming brings up a grody gray mass of hairy fluff every time I… Read More Grown-Up Reviews: The Shark Vertex Powered Lift-Away Upright Vacuum Cleaner
In this occasional sports card feature series, I highlight a few of my favorite single-card purchases of recent vintage. Since I haven’t written much about sports cards since the start of the new baseball season, I thought it’d be appropriate to take a look at four of my favorite baseball card acquisitions as of late.… Read More The Singles Mixer: A couple Sox, a Redleg, and an Angel
Last week, I ate a bowl of Cocoa Puffs. You know Cocoa Puffs: they’re arguably the gold standard for chocolate cereal, at least in the United States. This was my first bowl from the first box of Cocoa Puffs I’d had in a while, at least a year. But the cereal just didn’t taste as… Read More Little Bites, Big Chocolate: Mini Wheats Little Bites are the best chocolate cereal
To be honest, I’ve never been much of a hardcore fan of TEAMS. I like sports: I like the athletic achievements of super talented humans. I like to be able to celebrate momentous happenings like no-hitters and perfect games, etc., no matter what team is involved. I’ve historically been a little bit of a clout… Read More Picking My Squad: A Not-That-Serious Exploration of WNBA Rooting Interests
Growing up, one of my favorite dishes was my dad’s baked beans. He would take a can of plain old Van De Camp baked beans (with or without weenies) and jazz them up with brown sugar, salt, ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and probably one or two other things I’m forgetting. They were sweet and tangy… Read More Thos beans: Serious Bean Company brings the flavor
I’ve been a basketball fan for pretty much my entire life as a sports fan. It was easy, coming of age during Michael Jordan’s rise to GOAT-hood (and doing that in a city very close to mine), to fall in love with the game, even though I admittedly grew bored at times with the Bulls’… Read More Blast From the Packs: A set of 2020 WNBA Prizm
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