Author Archive

• How NOT to Arrive at a Coal Region Mountain Party

  It's a beautiful spring night in the Coal Region, and you're driving your vehicle with your tunes and booze and buddies, heading up to the mountain party where you'll be meeting up with tons of friends. Then, something terrible goes wrong... In this instance, it was S.'s failure to negotia...

• Our First Monthly Giveaway – Shamokinopoly!

  We are excited to announce our very first monthly giveaway—the 1983 board game "Shamokinopoly" (it's actually called "The Game of Shamokin Area). You are automatically entered into the giveaway drawing—to be held on May 31st June 10th—simply by subscribing to our newsletter or by leavin...

• Cool Celebrity Caricatures

  These are among many awesome celebrity caricatures you can find at the fiendishly fun website deviantart.com. If you're looking for an artistic diversion, check out the site. Here are my favorites - let me know which ones you like the best in the comments section! :) As always, thanks f...

• 5 Pictures Are Worth 5,000 Words

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, than this particular blog post has 5,000+ words. Just some funny images I ran across. People are crazy everywhere, not just at the Shamokin-Coal Township Wal-Mart. And I just keep thinking that the people below REALLY posed for the picture like that....

• Reminiscing On A Shamokin Childhood

  As co-author of this blog I need to make it known to our readers that we never meant to—or mean to—disparage the city of Shamokin with our articles. We're merely here to inject a bit of satire into what can sometimes be a gloomy communal outlook. In all honesty, I think there's a chance...

• Turkey Hill Pajama Party

  I can now officially confirm that the mysterious pajama-wearing craze in Shamokin and the greater coal region has now hit Turkey Hill. First Wal-Mart, and now a store just a fraction of it's size. If I see somebody in pajamas at Puff's, the Shamokin retail market will pretty much be packed wi...

• Like a Deer Caught In the Flashbulbs

  Has anyone else noticed the great preponderance of dead deer looking up at us quite deathly from the very pages of our evil corporate rival The News-Item? What in God's Green Earth is so great about killing an animal that it merits a picture and a congratulations below to the hunter (or huntres...

• Wal-Mart & Pajamas Go Together Like PB & J

  So much has already been written on this subject, mostly by our evil corporate rival The News-Item in their Sound Off column, commented on by folks all over the region and moderated by that guy named Frog. But I had yet to witness this spectacle in all its glory—people proudly wearing their PJs...

• My Top 10 Albums of 2009

  All comments welcome. I'd love to hear what ya'll have been listening to most this year. The albums below most likely have the most plays in my iTunes, though I didn't actually check. You just kinda know. Like when you know every single lyric on the album, or something like that. There we...

• Shamokin’s Heroin and Crack Bust: What About the Baggies?

  Big drug bust recently in Shamokin that means exactly nada because there are plenty of dealers out there just ready to step in for the arrested Andre Lee and his cohorts. So instead, let's talk about a Real drug war. And it's all about plastic, baby, 2-inches and less, and boy would everyone be...