Several years ago, I had an old car that had been handed down several times. By the time I was ready to spring for a new (to me) vehicle, the old beater was hardly worth the money it would take to list an ad. Instead, we chose to donate the car and take a deduction. [...]

I almost titled this an “Only in FLA” post, but who are we kidding? These monsters are everywhere, unfortunately. Allegedly. This hideous ogre (allegedly) adopted 9 kids out of NY’s foster system under 5 different aliases to get the payments, moved them to Florida, then kept them chained up and starved as though they were [...]

Several Florida bloggers have blog-radio shows to go along with their various and sundry websites, because they are budding Web 2.0 media moguls while I’m still farting around with Blogger and learning WordPress. Meh. I STRONGLY suggest you head over to Colleen’s site to listen to the replay of the Colleenie-Weenie show. The first 15-20 [...]

Hey, I understand that a Florida vacation isn’t for everyone. To be honest, a lot of Floridians would like to see a couple of you go somewhere else. Have you thought about Hawaii? I have always stayed in hotels when traveling on business or vacation. I knew there were private rentals available, but it was [...]

Mr. Fab posted yesterday that I’m a blogging madman. Nope, just retarded. Why do I speak of myself in this manner? About two months ago I created this domain name and assigned it to this blog, which used to be called Florida Yard Dog, and was a free blogspot blog. A lot of people don’t [...]

It made the news in Miami when a cow got loose and started running through the streets. Some idiot security guard got in it’s way and it charged. Duh. Used to happen all the time in Brooksville. I lived in a neighborhood that bordered a large ranch just north of town, and a black bull [...]

Well, we had a little bad news last week – my youngest brother lost his job when his company closed their office here in Florida. He worked for them in NY, and when they decided to try an office near Tampa, he volunteered to make the move back to FLA. Six months later, they shut [...]

Papa Lives! ** A Floridian took home the grand prize at the Hemingway Days Hemingway Look-A-Like Contest over the weekend. The event was held at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West, a Key West institution famous for the fact that I was once thrown out bodily into Duval Street by six bouncers. Also, Ernest Hemingway used [...]

Oh man, that train wreck known as Mindy McCready is cutting another swatch across the state of Florida again. This time, she was arrested in Ft. Myers for beating on her mama after getting blotto on booze. Apparently, the Lee County deputies saw fit to putting the beat-down on her TMZ has the most complete [...]

I had an opportunity to spend my Saturday terrorizing drivers on I-95 and I-4 as I drove from Jax to Orlando and back. An hour and forty-five minutes. A new record, thankyouverymuch… I was part of a focus group for PayPerPost. They paid me and in exchange I agreed not to talk about the new [...]