Thought Distillery

This evening I somehow found myself tagging along in a last minute holiday shopping spree. “Sure I’ll go along. I’ve got nothing much else going on this evening” I thought. Then the reality struck. Suddenly I was what seemed like hours into Brand X building store moving along in the energy draining shopper’s march. [...]

For a few weeks now I’ve been eyeballing the gingerbread house kit in the bakery window next door. Sadly, I cannot recall ever building edible gingerbread structures as a child (or as an adult). Coincidentally, none other than the Urban Locust has had similar thoughts. So the other night we decided that something would have [...]

But just a little one mind you. And to think what I was missing last night in Eugene. I’m sure the music would not have done much for me, but oh the novelty! Just goes to show that size has nothing to do with living life big.

By about 12:30 today I finally had my act assembled and stepped out to an usually bustling downtown. I guess it is the shopping season isn’t it? Off in the distance my ears detected some sweet yet familiar sounds. At about this time last year I awoke on more than one saturday to the soothing [...]

Just when I start to become all bleak and weary from my dusk to dusk daily grind, along comes the latest pick-me-up email from your pal and mine: Archie McPhee. This will probably read like a blatant commercial plug, but heck who else has brought you the Cat-A-Pult, Nunzilla, and Hopping Lederhosen??? (Oh, meiner lederhosen!)
Well, [...]