Let’s rap about wrapping up a year’s worth of Todds of the Month with the December Todd of the Month wrapped like a Christmas present. This present wasn’t wrapped in beautiful winter blue fancy paper, tied with a fancy white ribbon, and decorated with a silver Christmas bell. LOL! This Wrapped Up (thank you, Spotify,…
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I Might Be An Elder Millennial, But This Coachella Lineup Makes Me Feel Like An Elderly Millennial. Clever! Right.
The 2025 Coachella Festival Lineup announcement makes me want to increase the text font on my phone, buy some Papa McFarland white New Balances, yell bingo, use a calculator to figure out tips, and turn on the TV subtitles. Well, I already do the subtitles with the Midsomer Murders I watch on Acorn. I like…
Stormstrouper.com Saved This Todd of the Month From Thanksgiving Lunch, and Elmer Fudd Wasn’t Very Wappy About It
Happy Thanksgiving! Here we are living the 11th chapter of the 2024 year. We just said goodbye to the spooky season and probably the leaf season. We honored military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. We are gearing up for a very palatable Thanksgiving of mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, dressing, and turkey. Yum! Before…
The Immortal Elf (A Story From The Shadow Elm Memoir)
Moving to the big City of Charlotte was frightening and intimidating, to say the least. Charlotte is an ocean compared to the small fishing pond I was from. The place where I moved from was, at the time, small and sleepy. I haven’t been back in a long time, and I imagine it’s still that…
Robots and Skateboards (A Story From The Shadow Elm Memoir)
“There will be murdering robots, skateboarding, and a whole lot of thrashing. And oh yeah, we got Tony Hawk,” is apparently how Marcus Santiago pitched Robots and Skateboards to the Canadian television execs in the late 1980’s. Well, according to the Online Encyclopedia, that is. Robots and Skateboards, created by Santiago, is the radical story…
Carve Your Own Todd-o-Lantern: This October Todd of the Month Activity Is Spooktacular
We (me) at Stormstrouper.com hope all of you guys and ghouls are having a tremendous spooky and unBOO-ring October so far! So far this month, we forgot about the Carolina Panthers only win, celebrating fall and wearing pink for breast cancer awareness. And unless you’ve been under a pumpkin or something, we’ll be celebrating All…
Stormstrouper Shorts: Three More Flash Fiction Stories
“Finally Found One” My family has stayed on both sides of the beach fishing pier. Weirdly, the pier is about a twenty-minute walk from both sides. I know because I walked toward the pier hunting for shark teeth from both sides. I also look from my beach chair under an umbrella in the sand for…
Remember When MTV Invaded App State In The Early 2000s, Here’s Everything We Recall About The Invasion
Don’t worry if you don’t remember when Appalachian State University (App State) generated some Mountaineer mania for MTV in the early 2000s, we got you covered. MTV made its television debut on August 1, 1981, with the airing of “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles. In the winter of 2002, I believe MTV…
Stormstrouper Just Collected Their September Todd of the Month
This September, we said goodbye to summer, football officially kicked off, the Panthers beat the Raiders, and the Stormstrouper.com Todds of the Month Club collected another elite member. If you’re hearing about the Todd of the Month, for the time being, it’s just like Employees of the Month, but we at Stormstrouper.com honor individuals and…
The Legends, The Natty Neighbor, And The Introduction Of Isabelle (A Story From The Shadow Elm Memoir)
I had the worst neighbors in the apartment complex for a few months in Charlotte. They were of college student age and acted like they had just moved out of their parent’s house as if their parents were demons of chaos and destruction from a hell house. The duo showed up a few weeks after…