Category Archives: Pop Culture

The Price of Convenience

  Earlier this week I stopped at one of those convenience store slash gas stations to fill up my tank and while I was standing 6 deep in line at the counter to turn over my money, I started looking around the store.   While the space itself couldn’t have been much bigger than 50 feet …

January 3, 2012 – 2:50 pm | By mike | Posted in Business, Economics, Mid-Life Crisis, Pop Culture | Comments (1)

3 Football-Isms That MUST Go Away

  Like a lot of red blooded American boys, I spent a decent amount of time watching football this weekend. I don’t want to come across as overly critical here, but am I the only one who’s noticed that most Football Announcers seem to recycle the same few catch phrases over and over again without …

November 6, 2011 – 2:49 pm | By mike | Posted in Pop Culture, Sports, Television | Comments (3)

Grocery Store Rock-Ology

    When I was a kid and my Mom would drag me to the grocery store with her, I seem to recall that as far as the music playing in the store, there wasn’t a lot to write home about. My guess is that back then grocery shopping music might’ve been coming from a local …

September 19, 2011 – 5:24 pm | By mike | Posted in Customer Service, Economics, Food, Man-Dom, Music, Pop Culture | Comments (3)

So, How Did Meatloaf Get His Nickname?

Born into a family of Gospel Singers in Dallas Texas, there are about 12 thousand different stories circulating about how young Marvin Lee Aday came up with his famous stage name but the most plausible of them all goes something like this: Being a somewhat, shall we say, “sizeable” lad, Marvin grew up playing football.  In …

May 1, 2011 – 9:58 am | By mike | Posted in Music, Pop Culture | Comments (0)