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It wasn’t a typical morning for me today. Usually I crawl out of bed, yawn and scratch my unmentionables before blindly picking out my wardrobe and jumping in the shower. This morning was unique in the way that I didn’t yawn. In fact, I immediately tuned into the events of the day as we were going to be inaugurating the 44th President of the United States. The anticipation was like going to your first middle school dance where the boys stand on one side, the girls the other and the cool kids were in the parking lot with a bottle of mom’s 10 year old brandy. It wasn’t just the fact that I voted for Obama that made the anticipation so exciting. It’s because we all get to wave goodbye to Bush. Forget the low approval rating and the indiscretions. The only real impressive thing he did in office was nimbly avoiding a thrown pair of shoes at a press conference (George, if you read this, I have an opening on my corporate dodge ball team so feel free to ping me). I actually don’t dislike Bush, I don’t really know him, but he was a below average president … Read the rest

So this is a sad moment for me. As a kid I adored Hostess cakes. My grandmother lived in Natick, MA and on the front side of the Natick Mall right before Speen Street there was a Hostess Factory and Store where we used to stop on every trip to her house. Driving to see grandma on Sundays was like a Pavlov experiment. The minute we entered Wayland I started salivating for Fruit Pies. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Twinkies, Cupcakes, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s or Suzie Q’s but there was something about a Fruit Pie (Yes, it deserves to be capitalized) from Hostess that made all the bad things go away. Plus Fruit Pie the Magician was the coolest. FPTM was the Hostess Fruit Pies mascot and everyday hero to millions of kids across the country. The guy could make Fruit Pies instantly appear with a wave of his magic wand! I mean come on. Could there be anything more amazing to a 10 year old than a cartoon magician who made snack cakes appear out of thin air and tried to save the day with sugary goodness? I don’t think so.

I recently found out that Hostess … Read the rest