Come Heller high water …- My problem is my view of life is too simple. For instance, I think “Why would we want to be friends with or sell weapons to a country that murders and dismembers journalists?” No matter how hard I try, I can’t come up with a good answer. Must be something wrong with me. I have no future in the Trump administration, clearly.
- Bob Mueller, some news reports say, will present the bulk of his findings just after the election. I think everyone needs it – Republicans and Democrats. It’s like
we’ve been holding our collective breath for two years. I, for one, want to exhale. Whatever the findings are, at least we’ll know. - I just looked at the Farmer’s Almanac forecast in the check-out line at Meijer and it said Michigan would have a slightly warmer, slightly drier winter. When I left the store, it was “slowing,” which is my term for sleet and snow. I am not hopeful.
- As you can probably tell, I’m suffering from the early onset winter blahs. In the old cartoon, Fred Flintstone tried to talk himself into loving Wilma’s mom by muttering, “I love my mother-in-law, I love my mother-in-law …” That’s how I feel about my home state when we get a month like this one. “I love Michigan, I love Michigan …” If I say it enough, maybe I’ll convince myself.
- If you haven’t, try sprinkling your pizza with red wine vinegar. I learned that trick at Luigi’s in Flint. It’s good stuff.
- According to the critics, “Roseanne” (now “The Connors”) is better without Roseanne. I’m not surprised. Once an actor becomes known more for controversies or political views, it becomes harder to see them in character.
- If and when I cut the cable cord, it’ll be for these reasons: 1) It annoys me that I pay for 300 channels but only 10 or 12 are watchable. The rest are selling bad jewelry and crock pots. 2) The networks have all adopted the same primetime formula: one show featuring God, angels or miracles (“God Friended Me”), one cop show, one Special Forces drama, one hospital show, one lawyer show, and one singing or dancing competition, plus 10 awful sitcoms.
- You know what I want – an old-school variety comedy show like “Laugh-In” or Carol Burnett. I kinda miss those.
- During an interview on Tinder (wait, Tinder has interviews?) Jennifer Lopez caused a minor stir by saying she keeps her ketchup in the refrigerator. So? That’s where everybody keeps it, right? If you keep it in the cupboard, it’ll go bad, right? Not so, said the article. Restaurants keep bottles out on the table, after all. Apparently, the vinegar and sugar in the ketchup preserve it pretty well. Learn something every day, I guess. But I’m still keeping mine in the fridge.
- Since I’m on a food kick, another story I saw said an increasing number of restaurants are replacing American cheese with fancier varieties because millennials don’t like it. Communists. You can keep your stinky bleu cheese and feta cheese. I’ll take Amur-kin on my burger any day.
- The red seats at Little Caesar’s arena in Detroit are being replaced with black ones so they don’t show up as well on TV when no one’s in them. Seems to me they should leave the seats and sign better players so people fill them.
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King.
Red wine vinegar on pizza? Love it on french fries. Can’t wait to try it on pizza.
Learned that in Florida in 1982!
Been using vinegar on pizza for years!!
I think you can read my mind. Or both of us speaketh the truth!
He can read my mind, too. My hope is more and more of ‘us’ can speak our truth. Loudly.
Wow! You are the first person I have seen or heard in a LONG time that has correctly called the store Meijer, instead of Meijers! Good for you!! It drives me crazy when people put the “s” on the end where it does not belong… While I am ranting, here is another thing that drives me up the wall and seems to be spreading everywhere… People say the word “guys” when there is not a male in sight! Server walks up to our table: How are you guys doing? (All women at the table) or what can I get for you guys? Photo of several women on Facebook and the person who shared the post: Thanks for a fun evening you guys, it was a blast! For kicks, just listen to people around you and see how often you hear “you guys” used for darn near everything… Aack!! Come on people, think BEFORE you speak and sound like you actually care what you are saying … Ok, end of rant. Oh, by the way, our ketchup lives in the cupboard. 🙂 Great column as usual, Andrew!!
Suzee, you are so right. I have been griping about the “guys” thing for almost two years now. I refuse to use it, even when the group is all male. I now use “folks” for mixed company.
Oldugly, I use “folks” quite often too. Or, gentlemen when talking to several men. For fun, sometimes I say y’all… LOL… Or, you ladies or gals. I hope that more people will start thinking about what they say before they blurt it out. When a server has called us ladies, “you guys”, we don’t respond, wait a little bit and then say, oh, were you talking to us?? There are no guys at this table… Trying to get the point across. 🙂
Not sure whether GUYS always is masculine. YOU GUYS is what we say in the north, rather than the southern Y’ALL.
Y’ALL might be better, overall. I never would say GUY for a singular female. But, YOU GUYS seems less Confederate to me, for a group, north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Use of the phrase “You Guys” is fairly recent. It has only popped up in general use in the last couple of years. By the way, “y’all” is singular. The plural is “All y’all.”
Oldugly: Y’all is hilarious!
I’m Wisconsin; “Youse guys”!!
I’m guilty of the “guys” thing when it seems too formal to say ladies.
More irritating is “HeyDude” My granddaughter tried that one on me. Put a stop to that pronto!!!
Geeze Andy, when can it seem “too formal” to say ladies?? Sheesh! Ladies is much better than “you guys” any day of the week, in my humble opinion… LOL Time to quit being guilty, wouldn’t you say?? 🙂 Love your column! 🙂
Like you said hire better players for the basketball team. Then cut ticket prices and the prices for the food and drinks. After all the taxpayers involuntarily contributed tax money to help finance the upgrades and who knows what else to build that stadium.
Restaurants can keep their fancy cheeses. I would rather have plain Kraft cheese or some of the
other store brands.
When I go grocery shopping and I see other customers trying to decide between “overpriced organic” or regular “non-organic” food, I walk beside them and say: ” All food you eat is bad for you, no matter what you eat you are going to die from eating it. Just enjoy the food and do not worry about the health nuts trying to run your life. Just do not go crazy on the cake, cookies, and ice cream”.
Oh, if it moos, oinks, gobbles, clucks, and goes baaa, quickly leave the store. Especially during the Halloween season.
Gracious, Jim-Bob! I hope I never shop near you! If you sidled up and whispered about my food choices?!! Creepy freak-out time! Oink, you dope!
Who is jim-bob? I have not seen anyone comment on this site with that name or any of the other comment sections of Andrew’s column.
You must be listening to the voices in your head.
When I go up to someone looking at food trying to figure out if they want to buy the overpriced “organic” food or the lower priced garden variety food, it is someone over 50 that I make this comment to. They listen, then laugh when I make the comment.
It does not matter what skin color they have or if they are a Republican or a Democrat or even a same-sex couple or whatever. They have a sense of humor. I do not use the comment on someone I believe to be under 30.
You know I was thinking about your last post where you were bad monthing Hillary Clinton for speaking up about the Trump people . I find laughable where it seems like Trump and really Republicans these days can say just about anything they choose to concerning Democracts and it’s acceptable . But when it’s the Dems doin the talking everyone gets horrified . I think my answer is give Republicans everything they dish out to Dems and more . You know what your mother said about standing up to bullies and you know it’s true. Guess Iam just tried it seems that the only thing Democracts do is just try to keep what they got and don’t try to advance any of there causes .
The Shawshank Redemption is a classic!
The Khashoggi murder has created a huge dilemma for the fibber in chief.
The Saudis and trump can not seem to arrive on the same page of false narratives.
The never ending quest for money and sheer personal greed reigns supreme over the loss of life and the search for the truth.
It’s known as “have your cake and eat it too”.
In this case, have your murder and take the money too.
On this Saudi murder in Istanbul: We Americans need to say, “These evil Saudi people have done this evil crime. And, they also have been bombing hospitals and schools in Yemen. ”
We need to stop dealing with the Saudi Arabian government. Israel and Jordan can be our middle-eastern allies.
If you remember, most of the terrorists involved with 911 were Saudis