Author Archives: BBRiley

This will be my last post of the year. I will be back the first week of January, 2022. I hope all my followers have a happy and healthy holiday season. … Get ready folks, time for an old man rant. By the way, get off my lawn. While I have been enjoying a continuousContinue reading “Video Game Madness”

At one time, I was thinking about joining a cult. Surprising isn’t it? You’re probably wondering why I would want to make such a drastic, life changing decision. It’s simple, I wanted to think less. My brain was full of so many things to worry about, I needed a break. What do I wear today,Continue reading “Cults”

(Previously published in Inland Empire Magazine) The world has a love hate relationship with fruitcakes. Some people consider it a delicious, sweet treat that has a little (alcohol) edge to it. For the rest of us, it is an affront to humanity and should be delegated to the trash heap of history.  Fruitcakes held aContinue reading “Why I hate Fruitcake”

When one says “Black Friday” most people think of the day after Thanksgiving as the biggest shopping day of the year. It has not always been that way. There was a time when you put the word “black” in front of a weekday, which meant something much worse. I did some research and found aContinue reading “Black Friday Mayhem”

This blog thing has not worked out the way I thought it would. By this time I thought I would have millions of followers, be recognized as a national influencer, and I would be making all kinds of money from ads running on my blog. I also thought I would be invited to be onContinue reading “Buy This Because I Said So”

As I sit and write today, we are experiencing something very unusual out here in California. No, our gasoline prices have not started to fall and the local news is still leading with Hollywood headlines in spite of seven world crises going on. It is raining. OK, go ahead and picture Californians running around, wavingContinue reading “Its Raining, Its Pouring…”

Fall is my favorite season, even living in California, where the seasons have trouble distinguishing themselves from each other. It may be 90 degrees outside but I still have to check the calendar to make sure it’s not the middle of January. October has always been my favorite month of the year. It is theContinue reading “October Surprise”

Making dinner is a challenge for many people in this world. Some folks, like my wife, are gifted cooks who can scrounge through the refrigerator and cupboards and make a feast. Then there are people like me who depend on finding the phone number for the local Domino’s pizza so the family doesn’t starve. IContinue reading “Cooking Calamity”

Before we start, yes…all you wanna be grammar teachers…I know that the headline for this article is far from grammatically correct, but I like it. Since I am the author of this affront to proper English, put your red pens away, it’s staying. Recently, I was on the very popular web site YouTube. The reasonContinue reading “You Too YouTube”