The other night I had the pleasure of seeing blues legends Buddy Guy and B.B. King perform live at the Hollywood Bowl here in Los Angeles.
For the record, Buddy is the young one of the duo, at 74.  That’s because B.B. King is 84 YEARS OLD.  Wow.  Still playing guitar, still singing, and still touring [...]

A while back I wrote about how referring to a V.I.P. and calling someone a “very important person,” seem to sound like really different ideas.
http://thestabbingpen.com/2009/11/27/1127-rather-be-a-vip-than-a-very-important-person/
“F.Y.I.” and “for your information” seem to have similar issues, especially when spoken aloud.
“…fyi the grapes are in the left drawer in the refrigerator” = normal sentence
“…for your information, the grapes [...]

I’m sure you know some people who have been in the same relationship for a long time, but aren’t married.  I’m talking about at least a 5+ year relationship here, if not even longer like 10 or 20+ years.
People who are in relationships like these are pretty much married, just not officially-officially.
I was recently talking [...]

If you don’t know what a mezuzah is in the Jewish religion, it is a piece of parchment (often contained in a decorative case) that is inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah.  A mezuzah is affixed to the doorframe…and is believed to bring long life and protection for members of the home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mezuzah-RS.jpg
Anyway, I [...]

Different facial hair styles on men  —- This has been a part of human culture for pretty much forever.
Facial hair can really say something about a guy.  It’s expressive, and a style can mean one thing in one century, and receive a different reception by people in another century.
Often guys will want to wear facial [...]

You’ve heard people say this before, I’m sure of it.  It seems to be most popular when people describe food, particularly desserts.
“This lemon meringue pie…it’s to die for”
Well, I don’t like that phrase, I don’t like lemon meringue pie — and it’s definitely not worth dying for.
What if a dessert is really good, but not [...]

Have you heard this story?  There are plans to build an Islamic mosque on ground zero of where the 9-11 attacks took place.  Well, the mosque would actually be built a couple of blocks from ground zero, but what’s the difference, right?
This topic has been the cause of some outrage (mostly from conservatives, but even [...]

I was talking to a friend over the weekend, who told me a story of one of his high school friends, and how that person was convicted of DUI/DWI.
This dude ended up in prison, and my buddy passed along some interesting anecdotes about life in prison.  Many of this is obvious, or common knowledge, but [...]

I’m sure you’ve seen this at sporting events.   The stadium cameras scan the crowd looking for romantic couples.  Once the camera zeros in on a couple, it is expected that they smooch for all of the crowd to see on the jumbotron.
Well, I think it’s about time that stadiums start showing homosexual and lesbian couples [...]

Yesterday at the Indians game, a fan actually entered the ballpark in Cleveland wearing a LeBron James Miami Heat jersey.  With Cavs fans and the city still reeling after LeBron’s heartbreaking and disappointing exit from town, perhaps this wasn’t the best decision to wear a Heat jersey at a Cleveland sports venue.  Indians fans chanted [...]