Everything Old is New Again

Note: Last weekend, my mom told me a great story about something that happened when she was growing up. She has a lot of good stories, so I asked her to write something for my site. I just got her email, but instead of that story, she wrote about a vaction that I wrote about last year. But my version was basically just a few hazy memories of I trip we went on when I was seven. Not to mention that it was back-dated, so most of you probably never read it anyway (not that I do that...much). Anyway, here it is from her perspective. Enjoy. The Griswalds aren't the only ones that have adventures. That's what the Hammels have, not so much as vacations...

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Not Track 5, Not Glenn's Prom Story

Ever since I started speaking, my grandmother has tried to get me to call her Grams or Grammy, the way my cousins do. Despite her valiant effort, she's always been, and forever will remain, 'Olly, because that's what I've known her as since I was a baby. 'Olly stemmed from my attempts at saying "Molly", which is what all her friends call her. Her real name is Alice. Sunday was her 85th birthday. We had a party at my uncle Jay's house. She has one of the Medical Alert things around her neck. At first I thought it was a mini iPod. I brought my laptop and showed her some pictures I took at my brother Ryan's school on Saturday. They were mostly...

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I'm Back!

I don't know if everyone is aware of this, but there's a sitcom called Rodney. It's not about the wise-cracking ghost of Rodney Dangerfield, as cool as that would be. Or even better, the wise-cracking reanimated corpse of Rodney Dangerfield. Now there's a show idea. Zombie Rodney (Rod Zombie?), working as a stock boy at a Voodoo shop in New Orleans. They could do an episode where Rodney accidentally knocks over a crate of voodoo dolls, and a whole bunch of people fall off a building. I'm laughing already. But that's not what this show is. It's just some guy named Rodney who has his own sitcom for some reason. Maybe he won a contest or something....

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Report: Blogger in Psych Facility

BOSTON (AP) He hasn't posted online for weeks. His blog has been shut down. And his friends are speculating on various reasons for his purported meltdown. Now comes word that John Hammel is undergoing treatment in a psychiatric facility in South Africa. Quoting an unnamed source "close to the situation," Entertainment Weekly said Wednesday that the blogger flew to South Africa late last month and voluntarily checked himself into the undisclosed facility. There is no word on the nature of his ailment or how long he will be hospitalized. Sources confirmed to E! last week that Hammel had been a no-show at work for several days. On June 1, Hammel...

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Hi. I Can't Come To The Internet Right Now...

We got an insanely huge project from Gillette yesterday. Basically we have until June 17th to take the roughly 200 Powerpoint slides they supplied and create a 2' x 3' panel for each of them. Most of the work has to be done by the 10th, so the printer has time to produce the panels. Anydangway, I'll be spending every waking hour from now until then working on that project, so there's a pretty good chance I won't be posting anything new until June 17th. If my head hasn't imploded by then. ...

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