Captain and Celeste

Listen to Guru this afternoon, at 3:30 he'll ask you what the Tool of the Day is. Call is with the correct answer to win! Today's tool is...  

Today's Christmas Special Head to Head gives us hard hitting lessons about the meaning of Christmas and the Christmas spirit. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was the first special to put Jesus back in Christmas and to direct us to the its true meaning...

We decorate just about everything with lights at our house! Central Maine Power reminds us to be safe with these tips: C.M.P. recommends not stringing together more than 3 strands of lights. If you are going to string together a lot of lights, use LEDs ... Read More ...

I stopped into the ACE Hardware on Rt.1 in Scarborough Tuesday evening and noticed the green light on by the door. I've been noticing them a lot lately and wondered what their meaning is. My nine year old looked at me in all seriousness and said with certainty that it means the people who live there believe in aliens...

I continue to discover great Etsy shops from right here in Maine. My latest crush is Love Rocks Me and Maine! For years, Ellen Thayer of South Portland has collected rocks that Mother Nature has lovingly smoothed into heart shapes. Ellen took her huge collection of "love rocks" and created some uniquely Maine greeting cards, prints, calendars and more...

Hurray! It's back! The NH Bragg "12 Tools of Christmas" contest on WBLM! Listen to the Blimp Morning Show weekday mornings to find out what the tool of the day is. At 3:30, Brian James will ask you what it is, call in with the correct answer and you win an awesome tool...

It's another Christmas Special head to Head! These are two of my personal favorites because of the great songs. From 1970's Santa Claus is Coming to Town! This song is probably the one that I sing most this time of year, always with jazz hands...

Sue Johnson of Manchester, Maine offers up the unmistakable smell of the beach with her Maine-Ah-Girl products in the CountryFolkSoap Etsy shop! Check out Studly Man soap! Fido deserves some holiday love too. Dog Shea Afternoon looks awesome, and both my girls will get some along with a pig ear on Christmas morning...

Holiday shopping has begun and for the frugal and the flat broke let me offer another resource, The Craigslist Free Section! Check out this groovy free console stereo with 8 track! The turntable doesn't work, but I bet it's an easy fix for the hipster in your life...

Cyber Monday is a real holiday for scammers and phishers and ne'er-do-wells. Protect yourself! Here are some tips to make your online shopping safer: Use a credit card instead of your debit card. Fraudulent charges can take some time to recoup and that can raise hell with your checking account and lead to bounced checks ... Read More ...

It's Cyber Monday and and if you get busted by your boss while doing some online shopping, I have an excuse! It's actually a good use of company time, because leaving the office to go buy this stuff at a store would take much more time away from your productivity...

Black Friday madness is upon us, are you taking part? Cyber Monday gives us the option of avoiding the crowds and shopping in our P.J.'s from home. Some shoppers enjoy the full contact, eyes on the prize adrenaline rush from Black Friday...

This is SO funny! Apparently biology is not this girl's strong suit. Let's review the reproductive process of a turkey: Turkeys lay eggs, like chickens. After 28 days the eggs hatch and little turkeys arrive. At no point is there a baby turkey alive inside another turkey ... Read More ...

This week is a rough one for some young couples, as college students return home for Thanksgiving and break-ups break-out! It's referred to as The Turkey Dump, and it's for real. This phenomenon occurs when college freshmen in long distance relationships come home at Thanksgiving and break up with their boyfriend or girlfriend...

Every year someone does the math and figures out the true cost of providing your loved one with the Twelve Days of Christmas. Last year the Twelve Days racked up a whopping $27,673.21 bill. Something about the cost of geese going up... I just ran across this Reader's Digest article that takes a different view of the infamous Twelve Days, it deals with the results...

Maybe it's the after glow of watching all of those hot policemen and devils pass through the door at our Halloween party, but it got me to wondering what people keep in their dress up drawers. And the survey says...! Doctor and nurse ... Read More ...