Tag: Blogging
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Beyond Pepperoni: A World of Pizza Toppings
Unique pizza toppings from around the world might make you curious, while others might make your taste buds cringe, but all of them have one thing in common: they’re loved by the locals. For most Americans, ordering a pizza is usually pretty straightforward. We enjoy our classic cheese slices, pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, and maybe a…
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An Educational Post About Pizza
People think I just randomly babble about pizza, but there is plenty of research based validity with what I say. Rather than just putting out a post, I felt I should include at least a couple of peer reviewed references to support my pizza content. Providing perks such as pizza for employees has emerged as…
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Restaurant Service Fees Exploitation or Creative Marketing?
We’ve reached an absurd point in commerce where business owners want all the rewards of entrepreneurship, but expect customers to directly manage their accounts payable simply to maximize profit. Is it exploitation? Or is it creative marketing? The FIFA World Cup chose my hometown (Kansas City) to host some of the biggest games on the…
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Pizza Trends Have Officially Gone Too Far
Once upon a time in history, someone looked at dough, cheese, and tomato sauce and said, “Hear me out…” It was simple concept, but it worked, and, it changed many lives forever, including mine. I love pizza. It’s one of humanity’s greatest achievements. It’s right up there with indoor plumbing, air conditioning, and duct tape.…
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Pizza Crimes Everyone Can Relate To
Pizza is supposed to bring people together. Yet every day, someone, somewhere, becomes the victim of a pizza crime so outrageous it makes those around question humanity. 10. Showing Up After the Pizza Order is Paid These people are never around when it’s time to order and pay, but they somehow appear just when the…
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Welcome to Costco. Good Luck.
Costco Is Basically an Escape Room That Ends With Pizza At this point, Costco isn’t really a store. It’s a full-contact endurance event where the reward at the end is a super size pizza slice for $1.99. You walk in needing toilet paper and somehow leave two hours later with a few random samples, a…
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Will Pizza Delivery Take Flight with Drones?
Pizza could soon be logging more frequent flier miles than humans if drone delivery becomes a thing. It might seem crazy, but aerial pizza delivery could happen sooner than later. Pizza delivery is starting to look less like a part-time job and more like a sci-fi movie. Major pizza chains are now testing drone deliveries,…
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Is New York Pizza About to Change Forever?
New York style pizza slices could be in for a pretty big change. A proposed ban on potassium bromate – a flour additive that’s been linked to cancer concerns — is forcing pizza shops across New York to rethink how they make their dough. For generations, many pizzerias have used potassium bromate flour because it…
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Sasquatch…Believe!
My latest song is inspired by our favorite forest dwelling cryptid – The Squatch came out of hiding to help me with a video for my latest song, “Sasquatch”. I hope you’ll check it out… If you like it, I would greatly appreciate it if you left a like or a comment on the video…
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Tribute to Chuck Norris
The unthinkable happened – Chuck Norris died. I’m not saying this is a sign of the apocalypse, but if the sun begins to flicker or if I see the four horsemen riding down my street, I wouldn’t be surprised… This feels like a plot twist in life we weren’t ready for. It’s like the wi-fi…
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Connecticut – The Pizza Capital of America?
How one small state ignited a big argument about pizza supremacy True pizza lovers get VERY defensive about what pizza style is best, and regionally it gets even more heated. New York swears it owns the slice game. Chicago comes in loud with deep dish. Detroit and St. Louis lovers put up a claim also,…
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Pizza Hut Just Upped Their Game!
The pizza chain did something that is sure to make some people happy… When I was a kid in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pizza Hut was THE place to go. Having my birthday party there was a always something I looked forward to. Getting a delicious pan pizza delivered to the table in…
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Iguanas as a Pizza Topping?
Here’s another fun national news story from the great state of Florida: Bucks Coal Fired Pizza in North Palm Beach, Florida, has decided to stop offering its viral iguana pizza topping that gained attention earlier this year. The restaurant went viral during Florida’s record-breaking cold snap in February, when iguanas were dropping from trees due…
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Featured Slices: Villa Castrioti – Nashville, TN
Nashville may be famous as Music City, but its pizza scene deserves just as much attention. Villa Castrioti brings authentic Italian pizza to downtown Nashville with classic recipes, fresh ingredients, and slices worth seeking out. I visited Nashville for a few days, unsure of what I would find in their world of pizza, but I…
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Kansas City Style Pizza – Yes, It’s a Thing
Everyone knows New York and Chicago pizza, but Kansas City has quietly created a regional style of its own. This Midwest city pizza deserves a place in every conversation about America’s best regional pizzas. Kansas City is best known for jazz, barbecue, fountains, and as late, the Chiefs and Taylor Swift. But unknown to many…
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This Week in Pizza History
Early January has always been a really good time for pizza—whether people realized it or not. Once the holidays are over, life goes back to normal. Work starts up again, schedules fill up, and it’s cold enough that nobody feels like going out. Historically, this is when pizza shines. It’s hot, filling, easy to share,…
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Good Bye 2025
In what seems like the blink of an eye, another year is gone. We’ve survived yet another trip around the sun. While it’s still 365 days, the rotation seems to spin faster and faster every year. My resolution this year was not to make any resolutions, and I held to that. You can’t fail if…
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A Slice of Christmas Magic (With Extra Cheese)
Every Christmas has its miracle stories. Like the ones where nobody brings up politics during the family gathering. Or, the one where the house doesn’t catch fire because of how you wired the lights like in the movie Christmas Vacation. And then there’s the one about how pizza can show up right when needed most.…
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Holiday Shopping: Tis the Season For Chaos
Behold: the holidays, when ordinary humans become unhinged treasure hunters of truly mediocre items. Every December, humanity collectively forgets that the items we are wrestling strangers for—fuzzy socks, boxed chocolates, personal hygiene box sets, and oddly scented candles, are typically available every single day of the year. Suddenly, a mug that says “Warm Wishes” becomes…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving filled with pizza, or whatever non-pizza meal you’re eating. Remember – We should be thankful every day of the year for the blessings we have!
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The Probably True Story of Thanksgiving
Despite other stories you may have heard about the origins of Thanksgiving, I think this may be what actually happened. The Pilgrims had a plan. A simple one, really: sail straight, land somewhere promising, start a new life. Unfortunately, “sail straight” turned out to be a lot harder than anyone expected, especially when half the…
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Some Funny Memes…
I often feel old, but when I see memes like these I definitely feel like a dinosaur! Unfortunately, these references about Generation X are quite true. This image truly reflects the comment, “If You Know, You Know.” The rules were simple. Destroy the other players. Especially the ones that wore glasses or had something weird…
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Happy Halloween!
Remember the old song lyrics, “Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat? I don’t think the song was referring to a mini size Snickers bar. Imagine a world where Trick-or-Treaters ring a doorbell on Halloween. When the door opens, the resident is standing in the doorway with a tray of…
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A Monkey, A Horse, and Pineapple Pizza
What the monkey considers business, the horse considers play… If there’s one topic that divides humanity more than politics or whether to fold your slice or eat with a fork, it’s pineapple on pizza. To some people, pizza is sacred — a serious, sauce-and-cheese-only ritual based on tried and true tradition that must be protected…
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October is National Pizza Month
What will you do to celebrate this most delicious holiday of the year? Pizza is obviously the most important of all foods, and it definitely does not require a month to remind us to eat it, but the fact that there is a month honoring this great staple of happiness is worthy of thinking about.…
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New Music You Need To Hear
If you enjoy electronic dance music (EDM), or even if you don’t, you need to listen to my latest album… Ghosts is a 12 song release for those who crave classic trance music. Each track immerses the listener in a world of pure audio euphoria. The title track, Ghosts, is perfect for your Halloween playlist,…
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Pizza Travels: Bentonville Arkansas
I don’t usually write about chain pizza restaurants, but Johnny Brusco’s is worthy of a mention! Down south in the hills of Northeast Arkansas you’ll find the fun little city of Bentonville. Known as the mountain bike capital of the world, the city boasts 140 miles of trails for riders of all skill levels. If…
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Halloween: How Soon Is Too Soon?
It’s not uncommon for Christmas lights to be up in November, but when is it okay to put up the Halloween decorations? In my neighborhood, we had people starting to put up Halloween decorations in the last week of August. I’m not talking about a pumpkin or a scarecrow. I’m referring to full on inflatables,…
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Interstellar Contact, Coming Soon!
An unknown object is rapidly approaching Earth with an expected arrival sometime around November, 2025. Could this be the first extraterrestrial contact? First of all, I don’t believe this is the “first” contact, if it actually happens. Aliens were here before, and probably are here now. If something wants to visit us from somewhere else,…
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History Repeats Itself
Just like how old music comes back around to be trendy again, so do the ways we listen to it. In my prime time as a DJ in the 1990s, I would hit up music stores at least weekly, if not more, to further my quest of finding new music, or older hidden gems. One…
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Ghost Stories
Ghosts, UFOs, and Sasquatch are real. I know because my TV, and the internet, have been telling me so. I used to be really annoyed by ghost hunter shows on TV because most were so obviously fake you’d have to be really dumb to believe they were real. They often had no plot, and more…
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Motivational Thoughts
Take these statements to heart – They just might make your day better! Follow Me For More Great Wisdom Like This!
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The Joys of Walmart
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller That quote is from the end of the classic 1986 movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, starring Mathew Broderick. The quote is very true, especially when shopping at Walmart. I was shopping in one…
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Merica’ 2025
We made it through another year of festivities, food, and explosions. What’s interesting about this great nation of ours is the wonderful ability to blow stuff up. When the Founding Fathers of our nation wrote, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” they probably weren’t picturing Carl from the trailer park launching flaming Roman candles…
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A.I. Is My New Buddy
Who needs people when I have perfect algorithmic validation? I’m that person who is skeptical of new technology. I usually hold out as long as I can because I think something may just be a passing fad. Or, more often than not, I just don’t care to jump on the bandwagon with whatever the latest…
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What Pizza Toppings Say About Your Personality
What you put on your pizza has a direct connection to your personality… Preface: This post is based on highly relevant, peer reviewed, deeply researched psychological data. By highly relevant I mean I think it’s important. Peer reviewed means by the three of us (Me, Myself, and I). Deeply researched means I listen to the…
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Pizza: An Indicator of War?
Once again, pizza proves it has amazing abilities beyond what we see (and taste)! The threat of global conflict may be hiding in plain sight – right between garlic knots and an extra-large meat lovers pizza. That’s right, the internet’s buzzing again about something known as the Pentagon Pizza Index, a semi-satirical, yet oddly accurate,…
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Did Anybody Miss Me?
I’ve returned from the writing abyss, but I brought back some cool souvenirs! I wasn’t completely gone from the writing abyss; I was really more in a different abyss, because I was writing. It just wasn’t here. For the curious, and hungry, I have released four new books. Yes, 4. Can you guess what the…
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Too Many Projects, Not Enough Time
Big things are afoot here in Martyland! I’m in the midst of exciting changes. Not just my socks and underwear (I’m overdue for both), but the entire world of my multi-media empire. What an amazing time we’re living in! Just like President Trump did with Elon Musk and DOGE, I had to do a top…
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The Quest for the Legendary Pizza
This story is not just about discovering the perfect topping; it’s about uncovering the ingredients of adventure, friendship, and life itself. In the magical kingdom of Flavoria, where the skies shimmered with the colors of spices and rivers flowed with creamy sauces, there existed a legendary pizza known as the “Crown of Cheeses.” This mystical…