Opened up a box of Cracker Jack Brand Snack Treat and you know what my prize was? I got a bad case of Stomach Polyps.
The X-Rays were right there in the box. Damn.
In the clip, Duffy is asked whether he'd support cutting his own salary. Duffy says he would, but only as part of a plan where all public employees' salaries would be cut. He then said that the $174,000 in salary (not including benefits) he receives is a squeeze for his family of seven to live on. The Conservatives are waging a war against the Working Class in this country. They don't want you to see a video of a Wisconsin Republican whining that his congressional salary of $174,000 is too small to live on while he and his party demand that everyone else work like slaves for nothing. He complains that he can't afford his six children on this salary. It's called birth control you stupid piece of shit. You're familiar with it. Your party voted to defund Family Planning, one of the primary...
The best nights are those when the furnace goes quiet and you can hear the filing cabinet. It’s faint but if you control your breathing, you can make out words and sometimes melodies.
Most of it’s in Portuguese and often it’s just strings of numbers but it’s drenched with emotion. The other furniture says the filing cabinet is crazy, it’s just muttering. But sometimes I make out the name Lucia. I suspect he had a family, or at least a wife, and had to leave her to come to America to make a better life for them. Then after establishing himself, he sent for her only to learn of The Accident.
He would stand alone from then on, condemned to a solitary eternity holding old copies of Mad Magazine and bags of Canadian pennies.
In 1926, Frank Giglio, an Italian immigrant from Calabria, Italy founded a small grocery store just blocks away from Detroit's Eastern market. In a predominatly Italian neighborhood his products brought a part of "home" back to his friends in the area. He carried pastas, oils, olives, homemade sausage, lunch meats like mortadella, salami and prosciutto and a variety of cheeses. Giglio's Market was a family run business and still continues that tradition today. Over the years our customers have grown to include many ethnicities and although the Italian specialties are still dominant, Giglio's has adapted to carry many hard to find products from all over the world. From Italy to Detroit to St Clair Shores, the Italians fled. This store was frequented by my relatives who lived down the...
A lot of people think you have to highjack an ice cream truck to be happy in life. Most of them are right. For some, though, happiness is achieved by building an ever-enlarging bon fire of couches and end tables in your neighbor's driveway.