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As soon as Anthony Bourdain of "No Reservations" sat down on David Letterman's TV show couch, I perked up wondering what Letterman would dish out about the food Bourdain eats on his travels since Justin asked Bourdain some questions last June in a ...

Recently, an AP news story came out about the traces of pharmaceuticals, including sex hormones and antibiotics, found in 41 million people's drinking water in the U.S. The traces are teeny tiny and probably aren't much to worry about. It's not that ...

When the David Letterman show called me on my cell phone yesterday evening, I was in a shuttle van after attending a party at Gordon Gee's house. Gee, the president of The Ohio State University was hosting a lovely gathering for Fred Anderle, a local ...

Admittedly, Russell Brand, the British comedian and actor, probably best known in the U.S. for his role as Aldous Snow, a rock star in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, can go a bit over the top with his humor. Because he will be hosting the MTV ...

Norfolk, Nebraska, hometown of Johnny Carson of the Tonight Show, will host the first ever Great American Comedy Festival as a tribute to Johnny and the stuff that makes us laugh. Comedy big time professionals like Robert Klein and Eddie Brill will ...

Not long ago,a woman was arrested in New Zealand for trying to smuggle three banana plants in her underwear. Here's another smuggling story, but this woman almost got away with it. In November 2007, the woman, looking to make money, smuggled a ...

Choteau, Montana where David Letterman married last week at the county courthouse is a gem of a town--the type of off-the beaten-track that beckons people who might be passing through to pull into a parking lot and stay awhile. When we were on our ...

Living like Matthew McConaughey may involve taking your shirt off, as Matt Damon says in his hilarious impression of the often shirtless star while Damon was a guest on David Letterman. (Here is the YouTube video. It explains why I chose the photo I ...

I'm psyched. As soon as I set this puppy to post, I'm heading to Cleveland to go to the Cleveland International Film Festival where I'll meet up with Brook Silva-Braga for the showing of his film A Day in Africa. There's also a load of stuff going on ...

If the news is getting you down, or if you'd like a big belly laugh, the kind that hurts, New York City is a place you should consider. It's one of the biggies in an article on the funniest cities in the U.S. One reason is because of the number of ...

Whenever there's a list of cities or neighborhoods like the ones that are dying or thriving the most, I flip through them looking for a connection. I was surprised to find one on the list of Top-Earning Towns. It's not where I generally hang ...

The poles. com has got a three part series written by a Dr. Popsicle (aka Gordon Giesbrecht) that addresses how to save yourself when falling into icy water. As most people know, falling into extremely cold water can be a truly deadly ...

After my night at the circus, I've thought some more about circus acts, the discipline it takes to get good enough to end up in a circus somewhere, and the countries from which performers hail. How people end up in a circus interests me. I can stand ...

Remember travel agents? You know, those people who used to book your flights and hotel rooms before the interwebs came along and allowed you to do it yourself? Apparently, they still exist! Yeah, I didn't know either! On Friday's Late Show, wiseacre ...

When the dream job to work as a caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef islands in Queensland, Australia was announced, more than 9,000 people applied--including Osama bin Laden. At least from the video posted in the article in The Sydney Morning Herald, ...