Season’s Greetings!

Best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most joyous traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, but with respect for the religious persuasion of others who choose to practice their own religion as well as those who choose not to practice a religion at all.

A new slogan for Lunesta?

I just saw an ad for Lunesta, the prescription sleep aid whose side effects include possible dependency, sleepwalking (or eating, or driving), aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion, allergic reaction, risk of suicide, unpleasant taste, dizziness, headache, and morning drowsiness.

So I have a new slogan for them:

“Lunesta. Sleep like a baby! An addicted, sleepwalking, aggressive, agitated, hallucinating, confused, suicidal, dizzy, headachy and somewhat drowsy baby!”

Consider yourself notified

It is very educational to read the information on packages. I bought a package of hickory chips recently to smoke some meat on the grill. There’s a California-required warning on the package that “Burning this product may result in the emission of combustion by-products…”

Grilled steak

And what goes with grilled steak? There are lots of good answers to that question, but on Friday, July 30, the answer was tater tots with catsup and Franks Red Hot Sauce, and sliced tomatoes with mayo.

FACEBOOK OF THE LIVING DEAD

George Romero’s Diary of the Living Dead is on Cinemax tonight, and I’m thinking, George, baby, get with the DECADE! Watch for his next movie, George Romero’s FACEBOOK of the Living Dead. Remember, you saw it here first.

Taking the new year for granted

When do you take the fact that it is a new year for granted? Personally, I’ll go much deeper into the month to wish those I see a happy new year. I’ll probably do that through the end of the month, to those who I haven’t yet seen in 2010. It seems kind of silly to me to wish someone “Happy New Year” come February, though.