Happy Holidays

This Christmas I plan on eating a ton of figgy pudding. I have no idea how to make it or where to get it or what it even tastes like, but there's still three days until Christmas so there's still a chance to make my Christmas wish come true.

On Christmas Eve I plan on discussing the affairs of my friend Bob over a mug of Smoking Bishop. Apparently I won't be able to walk or see straight after a glass of the stuff so I hope Bob takes it easy cause he's my ride home.

Here's the recipe: 5 unpeeled oranges, 1 unpeeled grapefruit, 36 cloves, 1/4 pound of sugar, 2 bottles of red wine, 1 bottle of port.

I also plan on doing a little gambling over the holidays at the World Series of Dreidel.

And finally the thing I'm most excited for this Christmas is the Lexus that Allyson is going to surprise me with on Christmas morning. I can't wait for that! I've never gotten a 65,000 dollar Christmas present before... It's bringing a tear to me eye just thinking about it.
Happy Holidays my friends. Now go fix yourself a generous mug of some smoking bishop and kick back and relax.

May Flowers

Usually around this time of the year the only two things I'm thinking about are the NFL Playoffs and the Holidays. Sure I still stroke my bird in December, but that's really just so that I can keep my focus where it needs to be. The house is ready for the Holidays and I'll get all of my shopping done tomorrow morning after work. But this year I find my thoughts dwelling on the month of May.

Over the weekend my mother called me from a movie theatre and told me to, "Learn all that is learnable." If you're a fan of the show Lost, Alias or Captain Corky by clicking the link above you will start to understand why I can't stop thinking about May flowers.

There's also one other little reason why I'm so excited about May... As it turns out we are pregnant with our second child. That's been on my mind a lot lately too and it's just as exciting as the other news I eluded to. We'll find out the sex of the baby right after New Years and then I can refocus my attention on the NFL Playoffs while we think about a name for Kid Corky. Max is Corky Jr just so there's no confusion here.

And now I leave you with another one of my all time favorite Christmas songs. It's easily one of my top 50 favorite sounds of the season.

A Tree Grows in Corky's Living Room

Yep... we got a real tree this year. Gone are the days of the fake tree in our house. Not that I'm a tightwad or anything like that, but real trees are a lot cheaper than fake trees. Not only that but they look more like trees, they smell better and it makes everything all around more festive.

I think this one is a pine. We were originally going to go with a maple tree, but I couldn't find a single lot selling them...

It was about 24 degrees on Saturday night when we went to get it and it was even snowing a little. I shit you not!

Getting it home wasn't an issue at all either. The tree fit very nicely on the roof of our Ford Focus (yet another reason why I only buy Ford).

Really it was one of those nights that you see Bing Crosby having in all of those awesome black and white Christmas movies and the only thing that could have made the night better was if I had a corn cob pipe and a piano to compose, play, and sing White Christmas to my wife and son.

Now I'm Begging you to watch the video below. It's a performance from New Orleans musicians displaced from Hurricane Katrina. It's simply breathtaking. The sound starts 7 seconds in to the vid.

Sunday Morning Clash Blogging

If anyone thinks they have better lyrical suggestions, I'd sure like to hear them.
-willSIX

Originally I was going to write a post about gum, but apparently I had a few other things on my mind as well.

For the most part I do all of my shopping at Thornton's. Thorntons is oil company and they have filling stations/quick marts in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee and Connecticut.

Seeing how Connecticut borders Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana this makes perfect sense to me. I need to do a little investigation as to what's up with that, but another time.

Thorntons is clean and has about the best customer service I've ever received at a filling station. The prices are very reasonable for a convenience store. Take gas for example, gas is 1.67 a gallon right now. Not bad. I filled my tank up the other day and it cost me less than 20 bucks.

Many a night when I'm driving home from work at 5:00 AM I'll stop in to get a frozen pizza or a couple of boxes of mac-n-cheese. I also go straight to Thorntons whenever I want to drink a nice cold Budweiser. 18 Packs are always on sale there, but if I need 18 beers I might as well play it safe and go with a case.

Note: I do not buy Porno magazines at Thorntons! I'm not even sure if they carry Porn mags. Back in the early 90's when I lived in NJ I had the Birdman buy all my porn mags at 7-11 when we would get off form work at 5:00 AM. I didn't want the owners of 7-11 thinking I was some kind of scumbag so I always hid in the car while Matt picked out some of my favorite titles like, Swank, Club and Cheri. Today I get my porn for about 89 bucks a month. That price also includes cable television and high speed Internet.

So the other day I was shopping at Thorntons for some contraband and I threw a pack of gum up on the counter with the rest of my items. It was a pack of Extra. It wasn't an impulse buy or anything like that because I always chew Extra except for when I decide to go with Trident or Copenhagen. By the packaging it looked like Extra had changed their gum. I was very excited to try out the new gum but when I opened the pack it was the same old dumb gum just new packaging. I think they call is classic bubble now. Don't be fooled and fucked like I was folks.

Note: When buying unfamiliar packaging of gum always take 30 seconds out of your day to read what's on the pack.
I spend a lot of my hard earned money on gum. Gum is expensive these days. It's like a 1.67 a pack and let's just say that I am more than slightly disappointed with Extra right now. I don't know if Wrigley's has noticed or not, but the economy isn't doing so well. Don't fuck with your bread and butter Wrigley! Not now.

Sometimes Extra gives me the hiccups, but it's good for those hard to reach places, and even more importantly, Extra Classic Bubble has gone from 8 calories a stick to 5. Sweet!