It was a regular schadenfreude fest for some of you satisfied customers who read with such great delight a column on the end of my WFLA, 970 AM radio show. ...more

June 1, 2008

Tampa Bay area residents are coping with rising grocery prices in a variety of ways - some tried and true and some with an innovative, frugal twist. ...more

May 9, 2008

in the era of erectile-dysfunction television commercials or teenage girls extolling the latest in cardboard-applicator tampons - we still don't quite know how to advertise something as simple as toilet paper. That whole area remains the great conundrum of Madison Avenue, which is how we wound up with singing toilets that just got superscrubbed and the Ty-D-Bol man and the depiction of any and all bodily fluids as being bright blue. All sorts of anthropomorphic creatures populate the throne room in lieu of frank talk. For a long time, to demonstrate how wonderful toilet paper is, people in commercials rubbed it against their ... faces. ...more

November 23, 2007

Dick Wilson, 91, the actor and pitchman who played Mr. Whipple, the uptight grocer begging customers "Please don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday in Los Angeles. ...more

November 20, 2007