Archives: January 2021

Jay and Silent Bob Come to New Hampshire

Jay and Silent Bob on the Free Art Wall in Nashua (J.W. Ocker photo) They were the foul-mouthed hetero-lifemates who emerged from a cloud of weed smoke to become Gen-X icons. Their names? Jay and Silent Bob, and I just saw them in Nashua. Sort of. The movie “Clerks” came out in 1994, and the meandering, profane dialogues of its…

A McRib in a Mausoleum

Paying tasty tribute to the founder of McDonald's

So there I was, sneaking a McRib into the mausoleum of Mount Calvary Cemetery in Manchester. The mausoleum is a beautiful one, with large colorful stained-glass windows, marble and brass walls full of the shelved dead in an airy chapel. Elegant. Not the place to eat a messy, mass-produced restructured pig sandwich slathered in gloppy barbeque sauce. But I wasn’t…