This is undoubtedly going to be part one of my reviews of EA Sports’s NCAA 11 Football for the XBox. I got the game on Friday night for my birthday and have had about 6 hours played on it thus far (hey, busy dads have things to do!) and will continue to build on this [...]

With Father’s Day right around the corner, there are a zillion things out there to get for your favorite man of the house. One of the questions is what do you get the dad that has everything? It’s always a tough one to answer. When it comes to my “needs” for Fathers Day, I literally [...]

For the past month, I’ve been getting a ton of pitches for the Fathers Day push. I’m getting everything from skin care product pitches to stuff about day care. The content suggestions run the gamut. Now, being that I’m in the PR business, I’m kind of fickle when it comes to what pitches I’ll accept. [...]

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. That saying is on coffee mugs, shirts, Fathers Day cards, and more. It basically spells out the difference between being an accidental sperm donor and a present and positive male influence in your biological children’s lives. Growing with just a father [...]

Not all of us run out and pick up the latest and greatest video games. For those of us who do, it’s often difficult to find the time to fully explore the entire game for days on end the way gaming reviewers do. With that, I bring you the inaugural installment of “99 Cent Reviews”. [...]

Try and imagine this: It’s a Saturday night, the NCAA tournament has reached the Elite Eight and you just picked up three six packs of beers (Stone IPA, Old Speckled Hen and Miller Lite) when out of the blue you read on Twitter that you’ve been sacrificed to the Sex and the City She-Devils and [...]

I finally got around to watching The Mack (1973) and think it is possibly the best film to come out of the blaxploitation era. It’s got a conscience that its contemporaries did not have that I think makes it a stand out. In fact, if you really look at it, especially by comparison, it hardly [...]

Is it being in an airport or hotel knowing no one and with a lot of time to kill? Is it, specifically in this instance as I pen this from a shabby food court, my elbow avoiding a semi-colon-shaped coffee stain left by someone else, a layover here in Cincinnati, looking out over my laptop [...]

I was thinking recently of an idea for a story or essay about the books a man re-reads and what’s going on in his life at those times. So I started making a mental list of books I have typically read once a year or every other year or so, a habit I have fallen [...]

I’m a big cigar fan. I wouldn’t say that I’m an everyday sort of guy, but at least once a week during the colder months and more frequent in the summer when the BBQs are in full swing. Tonight, I’ll celebrate the new year with close friends and family. The kids will be running around, [...]