April 15- Uses for Your Tax Refund!
Yes, it’s April 15th- the day of reckoning for all taxpayers (who don’t file for extensions…) Your income tax form is due- and must be in the mail by tonight. Will the local news shows do their yearly shot at some local post office, with tense, yet grinning drivers pulling up at the curb and handing their last-minute returns to a postal employee waiting, as if this is some kind of relay race? Somebody should pull up, and just hand them one of those cards you find in a magazine for starting a subscription- “I can’t miss another issue of ‘Procrastinators’ Weekly!’”
Are you lucky enough to be getting a refund? And/or, are you one of the many Americans who will be getting an economic stimulus check in May? Looking for something to do with all that money? My first suggestion would be to give it to your favorite local TV personality (not Oprah! She doesn’t need it!)
Yet there are other things you could do with it, for yourself…
Like purchasing a glow-in-the-dark t-shirt depicting your favorite TV goolie- or- for larger refunds- making a once in a lifetime purchase!
Here’s a suggestion- if you’re a horror fan- why not buy the home of someone connected to classic Universal horror? No, it’s not an old Bela or Boris bungalow- nor a Chaney or Carradine chateau…I saw in the Sunday papers that the home of Herman Stein is for sale! Herman Stein?! Not Frankenstein?
No- it’s Herman Stein- a Universal Studios staff music composer who passed away in March 2007.He worked on scores for nearly 200 films, but was best known for creating the background music for many of Universal’s big 1950s sci-fi horror classics- “the Incredible Shrinking Man,” “It Came from Outer Space” and “the Creature from the Black Lagoon.” His wife had passed on previously- she was also into music, having been a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic- so, now their former home- a one-story home with city and mountain views, built in 1961, is on the market-listed at a mere 1.049 million! Yes, those hills will definitely be alive with the sounds of music- and possibly the musical fright stings of the horror movies he contributed to-when you buy this swanky two-bedroom, two-bath Los Angeles home.
Not getting THAT big a rebate? Well, then, you could aim slightly lower-and nearer- as in BERWYN! You could put in the winning bid on the beloved Berwyn “Spindle” of cars! Come back tomorrow, and we’ll discuss that- and have your checkbook ready for action- you could be the hero to patrons of the arts and “Spindle” lovers everywhere…
Are you lucky enough to be getting a refund? And/or, are you one of the many Americans who will be getting an economic stimulus check in May? Looking for something to do with all that money? My first suggestion would be to give it to your favorite local TV personality (not Oprah! She doesn’t need it!)
Yet there are other things you could do with it, for yourself…
Like purchasing a glow-in-the-dark t-shirt depicting your favorite TV goolie- or- for larger refunds- making a once in a lifetime purchase!
Here’s a suggestion- if you’re a horror fan- why not buy the home of someone connected to classic Universal horror? No, it’s not an old Bela or Boris bungalow- nor a Chaney or Carradine chateau…I saw in the Sunday papers that the home of Herman Stein is for sale! Herman Stein?! Not Frankenstein?
No- it’s Herman Stein- a Universal Studios staff music composer who passed away in March 2007.He worked on scores for nearly 200 films, but was best known for creating the background music for many of Universal’s big 1950s sci-fi horror classics- “the Incredible Shrinking Man,” “It Came from Outer Space” and “the Creature from the Black Lagoon.” His wife had passed on previously- she was also into music, having been a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic- so, now their former home- a one-story home with city and mountain views, built in 1961, is on the market-listed at a mere 1.049 million! Yes, those hills will definitely be alive with the sounds of music- and possibly the musical fright stings of the horror movies he contributed to-when you buy this swanky two-bedroom, two-bath Los Angeles home.
Not getting THAT big a rebate? Well, then, you could aim slightly lower-and nearer- as in BERWYN! You could put in the winning bid on the beloved Berwyn “Spindle” of cars! Come back tomorrow, and we’ll discuss that- and have your checkbook ready for action- you could be the hero to patrons of the arts and “Spindle” lovers everywhere…
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