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According To Hofmann

The image of having a dog begging and/or waiting for food below a family dinner table is as iconic as The Beatles crossing Abbey Road or Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at the camera or the construction workers eating lunch on a steel beam of a skyscraper in New York City where, I’m ...

According to Hofmann: Ad nauseam

Thanks be to the retail gods that the holiday shopping season is finally over! Most of us survived, although broke and broken and broken and broke and, of course, broke.So, as I recover from the endless stream of television commercials fed to me over the past two months, I find myself pondering ...

According to Hofmann: Eggnog on my noggin

Last Christmas, I became a responsible adult when I finally learned how to make homemade eggnog.Also last Christmas, my brother gave me an advent calendar, but instead of punching out the days leading up to Christmas and getting a chocolate, each day had one of those miniature bottles of booze ...

Well, itĢƵ been a few years since I settled the long-held debate that “Die Hard” is, in fact, a Christmas movie.Since then, it seems like many folks have accepted that logical fact. I’ve seen more and more “Die Hard”-themed Christmas ornaments, games, advent calendars, mistletoe and ...

During this year of joy, giving and other crap like that, many parents will be entering local retailers, clicking online and making shady cash purchases from vans in alleyways to get the perfect gift for their little dependents--I mean, children.As a service to these parents, hereĢƵ my ...