Wawa is at the top of my list of places I wish were near me. It is a castle of fresh goodness, open 24 hours a day, and always lively. Here are three examples. The hoagies are fresh, made to order, any time of day. In the afternoon, nothing beat a shorti to get you through to dinner time. Or, say you've been out on a late night milk drinking romp with your mates, and you are feeling a bit peckish. Good luck getting your swanky bar to open the kitchen up at 2:30 am. Head to Wawa instead for a nice hoagie with chips. A second thing I like about Wawa is the coffee. I prefer the dark roast, but there is always a battery of about 12 pots of various flavors waiting for you, night and day. No venti, latte, mocha, soy, cheese, hold the garbanzo beans...this is a working man's cup of coffee. Third, cow tails. If you have never had a cow tail, stop reading and go try one. If you have had one, then you know I am speaking from the gospel here. Wawa carries the widest assortment of cow tails I have ever seen -- mini bites, 3" snack size, and what I like to call "the bull whip" sized which is almost as long as a slim jim.

There is something timeless about Santa Claus. All year long, you worry about whether you are being good enough, what you will ask for, and whether he will visit your house at the end of December. The innocent trust and faith in such a secular(ized) being that little children have are something I look forward to experiencing again through the eyes of my new baby. I can remember traveling to New York to visit Santa at Macy's. The look of awe and reverence as we wove through Santa's Village and entered his cabin is one I can only wish we had memorialized. I visited Santa Land as an adult and got just as much pleasure watching all the excited kids and I did out of sitting on his lap myself. Better be good.

1967 Camero.

I am a huge fan of the movie Better Off Dead and thought Lane's fixer-up Camero was the coolest car EVAH! The glossy black exterior, cherry red interior, throaty engine that announces to the entire world," I'm here!" What I would have given to have had a car like this in high school. Ahh...

Any way, it seems someone has tracked down the actual Camero and restored it to it's original cinematic glory. Take a ook: http://betteroffdeadcamaro.com/

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The assumption here is that all periodicals will be dead. I currently read more magazines than newspapers. I like monthly magazines, that is just about the amount of time I need to get through an entire issue. I would love to read the New Yorker, but those articles are so long and it comes weekly. It's hard to keep up and I wind up feeling guilty.

So, in absence of all periodicals, I would get my news from friends and family. I'd like to think I have a vast and diverse network of people who can give me the low down on what's happening. I am not particularly fond of Internet news sites since the level of journalism employed by most is spotty at best. This is not to say that all Internet news sources are hacks, its just that if I need to do leg work in figuring out the point of view of a particular Internet entity, I would do just as well to figure out the bias and angles of people I know and see on a regular basis.

This might also go a long way toward fostering real dialog about the issues of the day, rather than anonymous chatter about mundane or trivial matters. The Internet will undoubtedly play an integral role in helping facilitate the dialog through communication technologies, but as a source of information, I am not sure I would trust it.

More than a feeling by Boston

There are obviously a lot of caveats to my response. Let's assume they are trapped in a steel cage, oxygen is not an issue, and they are forced to fight to the death. In this situation, I believe the bear has the shark hands down. I once saw a grizzly bear on Man versus Animal. The bear was pitted against the champion hot dog eater from Japan, Takeru Kobayashi. The bear just ate so many hot dogs, it was not even close. I think the final score was like 80 - 2. And of course there was the movie Grizzly Man. They did not even show what the bear did to that guy and his girlfriend. It sounded aweful.

All this is to say the bear has a lot of weapons, the jaw, the claws, and the stomach. Granted, the shark is strong, and has big teeth, but I think the bear can out maneuver the shark enough to jump on its back and deliver some death blows. This won't be a leisurely salmon spawning run for the bear, and the bear will likely shed some fur and blood, but I think in the end, the bear wins.