The Oyster Festival is more than just oyster shucking; it’s a cornucopia of good eats!  There’s pit beef, chicken and ham, barbecued beef, pork, ribs and chicken, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, crab soup, crab cakes, steamed shrimp and, of course, oysters just about every way imaginable!  That includes scalded, on the half shell, fried, grilled and in [...]

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I have been quiet around here lately, but I am thinking of other ways this site could be used, for good and humor maybe.  Politics is ok, but I don’t want that to be all this site is about.  Some of the sites I was lumped in with had folks running them and frequenting them [...]

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This morning I “became a fan” of the Facebook group “Elect Candice Quinn Kelly” and upon seeing this my friend Brian  (Shedman here on the cafe) asked, “Is she a Democrat now?”
Hey Brian, were you saying I would only support a dem?  Hmmmm?
Anyway, there was then some discussion about why she changed parties. 
Did she change [...]

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I know that this is not the reaction that this gentleman intended, but now I wonder how the average child in Pennsylvania is treated. (read more)
But William Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, says the animal is “being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania.” The groundhog is kept [...]

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Poe Toaster is ‘Nevermore’
No gift of cognac and roses left at poet’s grave, ending decades-long tradition
By Liz F. Kay | liz.kay@baltsun.com Baltimore Sun reporter
A longtime tribute to Edgar Allan Poe may have come to an end with the absence of the “Poe Toaster,” who for more than half a century has marked the poet’s birthday [...]

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Merida, Venezuela – You might imagine that the shop selling the largest number of ice-cream flavours in the world would be in Italy or perhaps the US, but in fact it is in the Venezuelan city of Merida, as Will Grant discovered. After looking in the windows of a couple of ice-cream parlours but finding [...]

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Kudos to the toy store owner!
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian toy store opened at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning to help a frantic mother whose gifts for her children had been stolen from a basement. (read more)

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Have a lovely spring sprung day! And Easter for all you Christians out there.
I will be spending some of my day putting Carrington Neighborhood meeting fliers on doors with the family.
PEACE YO!

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Every now and then I get a little pretentious and toss one of my own poems on here. Today is one of those days.
Bankrupt
I have seen how, in the slow burn of summer,
a life of work and faith can rust away
in the high weeds and overhanging limbs
of an abandoned apple grove, how a name
can fade [...]

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The metaphor is one of the most often used, and most often abused, devices in poetry. When done well it can be surprising, delighful, and add meaning or an interesting angle to the object being compared. When done badly it can be unintentionally funny or distracting or make no sense at all. Billy Collins understands [...]

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This is March. This is Madness. This is 1983 and Jimmy V is running wildly around the court, searching for someone to hug after Lorenzo Charles took the 34 foot jump shot Derrick Wittenberg took from 35 feet out and slammed it home with one second to go to win the national championship.  This is [...]

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I love you!

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Sponsored by CSM March of Dimes Team!
When: Saturday April 4th
Egg Hunt Starts 11AM, Activities to Follow
FEE: $2 Per Child
All Proceeds Benefit CSM March of Dimes Team
Please join the CSM March of Dimes Team for a fun filled morning! Egg Hunt by Age Group, Easter Crafts, Games, Face Painting, Bake Sale and More! An event you [...]

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Freaked out about Friday the 13th?

Neal Augenstein, WTOP Radio
WASHINGTON – If you think Friday the 13th is unlucky, brace yourself — we’re in for an unusually unlucky year.
March’s Friday the 13th is the second of three Friday the 13ths to occur in 2009. First, there was Friday the 13th in February. Now, March. The third [...]

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