Jersey Mike

It’s that time of year. A time for us to look back and reflect on everything that made oh-nine the winner of a year that it was.

So here they are- my favorite blog-moments of the year.

Janks Goes To Jail- Captain Janks from the Howard Stern show was making his rounds at dive bars hustling for cash to get more Oxycontin. And with the help of this here blog, he’s sitting in a jail cell right now. Making sweet prison love to a guy named Bubba.

Simple Sneakers Makes Good- I bought my first pair of Simple Sneakers in 1995. And I still have them. But the new pair I bought in oh-seven fell apart. And Simple proved to me that they ARE a company with a good moral fiber running through them.

Dunkin Donuts Cleans House I love me a medium hazelnut, cream and sugar. And I want it QUICK. The Dunkin Donuts on Second Street was in shambles…and I like to think that this blog shined some light on it. Thereby effecting DD Corporate to clean house. Now the coffee is quicker.

Baby’s First Stalker I had a stalker this year. (S)he was sending me a plethora of odd items in the mail. And writing this simple letter and posting it on my site dissuaded any additional packages.

A Blogger Meets A McNugget Schiller I had this great idea to track down the guy who did the “I’m Into Nuggets, Y’all” rap commercial for McDonalds and write a story about viral videos. I thought it came out great…but it was one of my least-read posts of the year. Oh well.

“Pathetic Blogger” is born Our fearless new mayor (If Reed was “Mayor for Life”, Linda is “Mayor for Now”) made a comment to the press. It was “Those people on those blogs are really pathetic people”. And a sensation was born. Fear not, Linda. We’re pathetically plotting our plans….

Papenfuse Sign Language Remember the hulabaloo over the Capital Blue Cross signs on Front Street? That was a heluva time we had, wasn’t it? And it was also a win for the little guy. High five, once again, Eric. Tremendous win for the people.

And one of my favorite stories of the year- Semantic Adventureland. “Bro…if I returned this movie the day after I rented it…and it was on-time, you or you or you [there were three employees behind the counter at this point] would have to take that movie from the return bin and place it back on the shelf where it belongs. “Comedy”, in with the “B’s” somewhere after Back To The Future and before Boogie Nights. And you wouldn’t charge me a restocking fee then, would you?”