Candy Corn Oreos Sadly Didn’t Impress Much

Well, my parents came down for the weekend and brought two very important things with them: Limited-Edition Candy Corn Oreos, and my all-time favorite homemade cookies in the world: Magic Cookie Bars. If you’ve been following my blog, you already know of my family’s obsession with finding Candy Corn Oreos. We still can’t find them anywhere in our area. But my big sister came through and bought us a few packages. She lives near my …

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Guess What I’m Finally Getting to Eat This Weekend

My wife’s been searching high and low in our county for these limited-edition Candy Corn Oreo cookies and she keeps coming up empty. We have two Targets, a Wal-Mart and loads of grocery stores, yet none of them in our NY area carries them. (Apparently, it’s not just my family that’s way too obsessed over Oreos. My blogging friend Lisa wrote all about this very same issue. Check out Lisa’s post over at Oh Boy, Oh Boy, …

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The Hobbit Movie is Coming and I Absolutely Cannot Wait to Go There and Back Again

I love riddles. Not the “Why did the chicken cross the road?” variety, but the “What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” type. So when I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit a number of decades ago, the scene where Hobbit Bilbo Baggins first confronts the creeptastic Gollum was easily my favorite part of the book. Not just because Gollum is such …

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Wordless Wednesday: My Signed Copy of 50 Shades of Grey from EL James Herself

Yes, I’m defying the “Wordless” part of this post for a super quick explanation. While waitng in the Green Room after my taping on the Katie Show this past Monday, EL James came over and sat down for a few minutes. We chatted a bit, and one of her friends gave me a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, which the author so kindly signed. She wrote: Andrew Laters Baby EL James

My Hot Threesome With Katie Couric and 50 Shades of Grey Author EL James

Today was my appearance on Katie with special guest, Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James. (If you missed the excitement, do some catching up on Why I’m On Katie Couric’s new show). I had no idea what to expect and was somewhat nervous this morning. I was actually surprised I wasn’t MORE nervous all weekend, but it didn’t really hit me until this morning as I was getting dressed. Katie’s team sent over a car …

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