Musings, opinions, observations, questions, and random thoughts on island life, Fernandina Beach and more

My Friend Irma! NOT!

My Friend Irma, was a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy that was so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films, television, a comic strip and a comic book. The 1949 movie was the first for the new comic duo of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin in 1949 that rocketed them to […]

Will Taliban/ISIS Wannabe Statue Vandals Target Fernandina Beach’s David Yulee?

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always […]

Are Burger Reviews UnAmerican & Bigoted?Despite the Criticism Here Are The First Five

It’s highly unusual for this blog to receive attention from a celebrated national figure when we can barely get family members to read it.  But it happened recently when the following missive arrived in our mailbox from Mr. Ronald McDonald. With tongue firmly wedged in one cheek and a hamburger in the other, here’s what he had to say: