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“Pumpkinhead” Starring Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D’Aquino and Florence Shauffler. Directed by Stan Winston. 86 minutes. Rated R. Amazon Prime. Del’s take They had me at the cicadas. If I remember the South for anything it will be sluggish… READ MORE
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I have amazing news for you homeowners who may not be up on your pest lore. This amazing information comes to us from the Allentown Morning Call, which is a newspaper with a strange name, almost as strange as Playground…. READ MORE
I want to relate to you diet-conscious consumers an important health tip about shopping in supermarkets. To put it bluntly, if you value your health, you will stop snooping in my cart to see what kind of food I buy…. READ MORE
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Everybody experiences them: moments when you commit acts so unspeakably embarrassing that you wish you could drop from the face of the planet. Here are some of mine: 1. It is the night of the newspaper’s customer appreciation party. A… READ MORE
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This is the scenario: If I am not at work in 10 minutes I will no longer have a need for banks, which is where I happen to be right now, cruising in my car across the parking lot at… READ MORE
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This is the story of a woman, a river, and a concussion. The woman’s name is Debbie; the river has many names, none of them printable here; and the concussion … I guess it was my fault. I told Debbie… READ MORE
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Here is everything you need to know about the contemporary music scene: (Important note to readers who are about to stop reading and write me nasty letters calling me a tone-deaf burrowing parasite for ridiculing contemporary music: This is not… READ MORE
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My ex-best friends Jim Shrine and Joann Schumann, who work here at the newspaper, recently returned from a vacation in Mexico. They didn’t invite me, of course. But that’s OK. I don’t mind. Really. Just because those two drain clogs… READ MORE
This was our campsite outside of Lessburg, Florida, in the early 1970s The campground was overrun with gnats. Photo by Del Stone Sr.
My camping adventure comes to a merciful close at a campground we christened “Gnat City.” Gnat City lies somewhere in the vicinity of Leesburg, which lies somewhere in the vicinity of the Twilight Zone. Gnat City is memorable for (A)… READ MORE
On the way to Camp Do-Not we spotted this waterspout in the distance. Maybe you can see it in the red box. Or maybe I'm lying. By this time we were delerious with heat stroke because Dad refused to turn on the AC in the car because it dropped the gas mileage by 2 mpg. These days I run the car AC in the dead of winter with 8 inches of snow on the ground. Photo by Joyce Stone.
Sadly, it is time for us to end our idyllic week at Manatee Springs State Park and move on to another Campground from Unspoiled Hell. In the 20 or so seconds it takes us to pack our belongings, I stop… READ MORE