I love this story …

Read this the other day on the Internets ……

Cows and buffalos - both can sense when a storm’s coming.

But they handle it completely differently.

Cows? They turn and run. They try to get away from it…

Problem is… they end up running with the storm.

Cause it just follows them.

So they stay in it way longer than they need to.

More wind, more rain, more pain.

But buffalos on the other hand?

They do the opposite.

They run into the storm.

Head first. Straight in…

It’s louder. It’s messier. It’s harder…

But they get through it faster.

And they come out the other side stronger.

13 Things We Learned on Vacation (with a 4-year-old)

1. When you leave home without your 4-year-old’s blankey it’s not the end of the world – if, of course, you stop at a Lexington Target and buy a new blankey (which we did).

2. Carrington would much rather watch Ninja Turtles on TV than watch real turtles and gators at the Myrtle Beach reptile zoo. Found this out the hard way.

3. Hotel room key cards can be left in swim trunks for multiple hours while you wear said trunks and play in the pool – the keys still work. I know. I did this twice. At two different hotels. In different states.

4. If it rains and floods your hotel room lobby, disabling you from checking in, as it did ours on our first night, go to Margarittaville. Actually, that sounds like good advice in any situation.

5. If you want to get the biggest calzone you’ve ever seen, go to Gatlinburg. That’s really the only thing memorable about this place.

6. Side note to No. 5 – one other memorable thing about the G-burg: punks with skateboards are everywhere. I learned I’m unafraid of them and (taking a page out of the Ramstetter book) nearly hit one when he kept skating too close to me. Yes, I’m really a 74-year-old man. Pesky kids.

7. Carrington will always – always! – order grilled cheese at a restaurant and not eat it. We fell for this approximately 32 times. We’re always like, “Well, maybe this time …”

8. Carrington wants to swim forever. Like, she wants to live in water. I think I noticed her growing gills.

9. We’ve decided we have officially seen everything the Southeast has to offer. All of it. Then someone asked us if we’d been to Charleston, and we were like, “Well, no.”

10. I will Instagram anything. No lie. I Instagrammed a dude laying tile and a video that came out all black. I called it “artsy.”

11. Lounging in the pool is not the same as bathing. This is not advice for Carrington. It is advice for me.

12. When asked to help pick up a room, Carrington cannot see a candy wrapper on the floor right in front of her. But when walking on the streets of Gatlinburg, surrounded by a throng of people, she can spot a Sponge Bob toy in the window of a store a block away. Yup. I swear this actually happened.

13. Just because people are wearing UK gear, it does not mean they are comfortable with you running up to them and screaming “Go Cats!” Crazy as it seems, they may not share the same amount of Wildcat enthusiasm as you.

Remaking and Recasting Ghostbusters today …

My friends have talked about this for a long time. We love Ghostbusters. We even love Ghostbusters 2. (Hell, I even loved BOTH versions of the Ghostbusters cartoons when I was a kid).

For years we’ve been waiting for someone – anyone – to do something with the franchise. We love it so much we really don’t care who does what, just so long as something happens.

For a while, we thought there’d be another film – a Ghostbusters 3, if you will. We’d look at Dan Ackroyd’s paunch, Harold Ramis’ flat-out ballooning in ‘As Good As it Gets’ and Bill Murray’s indifference, and we’d still think ‘Hey, it could happen.’

But it wasn’t happening. Time after time scripts and producers and actors were attached, only to fall by the wayside. Ramis had to go and become a ghost himself (ouch – too soon?) and that seemed to really hurt the chances for something in the chronological series to occur.

Then there was the idea to re-cast the movie. I liked that a lot. Just re-cast it and start off with some new guys. You know, like they do with those Hispanic kids in Menudo.

Now, they’ve decided to go with an all-female G-busters. I love it. Let’s go. Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig are reportedly attached. Can we work in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler too? Who knows? I’m just excited this seems to be moving forward.

Anyway, a while ago, when they were thinking of re-casting Ghostbusters, I had an idea of who should play most, if not all, the parts in the first movie. Yes, I know this would be the most expensive movie of all time. But just imagine if we could do this . . .

Ghostbusters recast today

Bill Murray – Vince Vaughn

Dan Akroyd – Paul Rudd

Harold Ramis – Jim Parsons of Big Bang Theory

Ernie Hudson – Craig Robinson (Daryl from The Office)

Sigourney Weaver – Rashida Jones

Rick Moranis – Steve Carell

Annie Potts – Tina Fey

EPA guy – Stephen Colbert

Mayor of NYC – Alec Baldwin

Sigourney’s boyfriend – Owen Wilson

Hot chick in first scene – Kate Upton

Dorky guy in first scene – Michael Cera

College official who fires them – Neil Patrick Harris

Librarian – Amy Poehler

Head librarian – Luke Wilson

Ghost lady – Kristen Wiig

Realtor – Rebel Wilson

Hotel manager – Jason Segel

Man who asks if they’re cosmonauts – Newman from Seinfeld

Doorman – Steve Harvey

Coach driver – John C. Reilly

Hot girl at Rick Moranis’ party – Brooklyn Decker

Guys who shut down the storage facility – Seth Rogen and McLovin

Guy who says the walls were bleeding – Ernie Hudson

His Eminence – Will Ferrell

Gozer – Lady Gaga

– I especially love Lady Gaga as Gozer and Colbert as the EPA guy. That’s inspired.

What do you guys think?

‘We Must Let Her Go’

Tragedy unfolds on beach as child’s beloved Elsa toy buried alive

R.I.P. Elsa: 1995-2015

-Search called off as authorities shrug shoulders, Dad promises to ‘buy another one, I guess’

By RYAN CLARK
Dad and writer

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. – In what has marred an otherwise delightful Harbor Fest weekend (and yet another Clark family vacation) beloved child’s toy “Elsa” was buried alive, lost and is now assumed dead, Harbor authorities confirmed Friday.

“Apparently the young girl was playing with Elsa, building an ice castle home for the Frozen character out of sand, when she decided to bury Elsa, too,” said county sheriff Todd Tomboly. “Then, after a period of time the young girl returned to look for Elsa but could not find her.”

Even with the help of others digging on the beach, then with the aid of authorities and search dogs, Elsa’s whereabouts remained a mystery.

Elsa, 20, was the ruler of Arendelle, and sister to Anna, and her powers over ice and snow led Elsa to become the Snow Queen. She was known for her white hair and stubbornness.

Six-year-old Carrington Clark, owner of Elsa (and the last person to see the tiny queen) did not seem to care very much about the loss.

“We looked for a while,” Carrington told the press. “But then we decided we could just buy another one. Maybe some other girl will find her.”

As the afternoon wore on, a local preacher who joined the search finally lifted his hands to the sky and proclaimed that everyone should probably just “let her go.”

The tragedy shook this southeastern Michigan harbor town, mostly made up of tourists and shop owners this time of year.

But Ryan Clark, Carrington’s father, could still find time for a delicious, medium, fresh-squeezed Lemonade.

“They’re thirst-quenching, and they really help you beat the heat,” Clark says. “They fit any kind of event, from celebration to tragedy.”

A memorial will be held this afternoon at the beach. Flowers may be sent to the Baymont Inn in South Haven.

Elsa was preceded in death by her parents, who were both lost at sea. She leaves behind sister Anna, Kristoff and Olaf.