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When Sugar Isn’t Sweet Enough
Did you get a chance to try Pepsi Throwback when it came out earlier this year? If not, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back in December for a limited engagement of 8 weeks.What’s the deal with Throwback? It’s made with natural sugar.(As opposed to un-natural sugar? Deviant sugar? Perv…
Patrick Moberg’s Internet Vices
is a vodka cranberry.Social lubricant used to enhance still developing social etiquette. You’re aware of your uninhibited actions, but comforted by the built in safety net of excuses.Guess the Internet Vice where: “Plans of overthrowing mass media fall prey to collective laziness.”You must go see the rest: http://www.patrickmoberg.com/internet-vices/
Pumpkin Coffees
With Thanksgiving approaching, I have three different pumpkin coffees to compare for you.(Yes, it’s a difficult job, but somebody’s got to review all these coffees, and I’m thinking it should be me.)First:Timothy’s Perfectly Pumpkin.This is pumpkin pie in a cup.Warm pumpkin pie in liquid form. Yum, yum, yum. It smells…
Colonial Coffee House
Guess what the newest exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg is – a coffee house!From The Washington Post:”Now [Williamsburg] is home to the modest Charlton’s Coffeehouse, built from scratch on historic foundations and billed as the only 18th-century coffeehouse in America.””At some point in the 1760s a young immigrant named Richard Charlton…
Cats For Gold!
OMG – want a laugh? Go here: http://www.catsforgold.com/
RWA Responds to Harlequin Horizons
From http://www.annaguirre.com/archives/2009/11/18/rwa-has-stones/ :Romance Writers of America was informed of the new venture between Harlequin Enterprises and ASI Solutions to form Harlequin Horizons, a vanity/subsidy press. Many of you have asked the organization to state its position regarding this new development. As a matter of policy, we do not endorse any…
New Harlequin On The Horizon
If you follow the writing – especially romance writing – community at all, you will have heard of the new partnership between AuthorSolutions and Harlequin: Harlequin Horizons.Some people are worried that:1) This venture will dilute the Harlequin brand. In other words, that a reader will pick up a Horizons book…
Remembering Henry: the 89th American Division and the End of World War One
The Red Poppy is the symbol of Remembrance Day, 11 November. Remembrance Day was started in 1919 as Armistice Day, to honor the end of The Great War. The War to End Wars. Which came to be known as World War I. After World War II, the name was changed…
Guy Fawkes Day in Colonial Boston
November 5, 1765″This was the anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, in which Guy Fawkes figured, in 1605. Pope’s day, however, originated in 1558, on the accession of Queen Elizabeth. At first, the Pope and the Devil were the only pageants, but it afterwards became somewhat changed. These…