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Restaraunt Review: Shipley's Do-Nuts

The South is a land of mystery to me. Despite my mother being of Tennessee stock I am a born and raised Yankee. I have been south of the Mason Dixon line on many different occasions. The thing that confounds me most about the south is why it is so hard to get an iced coffee. It is late July. It's Mississippi. It's hotter than the devil's tushy and all you want to do is drink something both cold and caffeinated. So you stop at a donut shop. Ask the nice lady for a few donuts and an iced coffee. And you get a look like you offered sodomy lessons or something. So you buy a hot coffee and have to wait a half hour to drink it. The only thing I can figure is that the sweet tea industry is so strong in the south that it has strangled any competition iced coffee may have had. I had to travel another day and a half before finding a great place in Austin Texas that would sell me an iced coffee.

Shipley's is an excellent place for donuts or as they call them "do-nuts". I had a lemon and apple filled. Delightful. Perfectly assembled pastries. But I had nothing to wash them down with. If it were wintertime this wouldn't have been a problem. When it's close to a hundred degrees out, the last thing you want is a hot coffee. I swear to goodness I almost had a case of the vapors. And that is not something this Northern gentleman can abide.

Address: 2151 S Lamar Blvd, Oxford, MS 38655
Price Range: $
Cuisine: Southern Do-Nut

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Restaraunt Review: Linda's Donuts

One fast and easy way to test the quality of a donut shop is to quickly count the number of older customers. If you walk in and see an ocean of white, gray and blue hair you know you have hit the mother lode. Which is exactly what happened when I stepped foot in Linda's. Every table was full of four or five retirement aged or greater individuals. I longed to cozy up with them, ask for some life lessons or tips on getting out grass stains. But I was there for one reason and one reason only- the donuts! Linda's sells fantastic hand crafted donuts. The jelly donut I purchased was sugar covered as opposed to the usual powder. I have heard negative reviews of their coffee from fellow food critics and I had a thermos of coffee in the car so I skipped the coffee. Plus it was standing room only, so I had to take my donuts to go. The seniors are right though, Linda makes a great donut. In the days since my visit the donuts have not been far from my mind. I may make the trip back to Linda's again, quite soon. And as I bound into my golden years I look forward to many more visits to this fine eatery.



Address: 247 Belmont Street, Belmont, MA 02478
Price Range: $$1/2
Cuisine: All Ages Donut

Summer Movie of the Summer-2010!!!

Okay gang! I'm back. It's been a very busy summer for yours truly and I know you all have been dying to know what my annual summer movie pick for this year is. I am not going to give it too much ballyhoo. It is quite simply Piranha 3-D. The original is one of my favorite movies ever, and while Al Aja is no Joe Dante it looks to be a fun time. From the fact that it's in 3-D to what looks to be Richard Dreyfuss making an appearance in his outfit from Jaws, nothing about what I've seen so far would make me believe this to be anything but the greatest movie of all time.

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Scrapbooking '69

On a recent visit to my parents crib, I came across one of my dad's old scrap books he kept when he was in Vietnam. Many years before Martha Stewart. There were a good deal of political cartoons- particularly those by the fantastic Ron Cobb, naked lady pictures, concert ads and just general images of hippies having fun. I scanned the ones that were film related, perhaps I shall scan some of the others at a later date. I really love the black & white film ads. Check out the fantastic 20th Century fox logo in the ad for the Che Guevara movie.