HEY MIKEY!

I have a soon-to-be-13-year-old son who is all boy. Michael likes to watch "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel, a TV program which investigates popular myths and legends and actually puts them to the test. Michael is a myth-buster himself. Our backyard is full things that have been tested, such as exploded soda cans and bottles, aerosol spray cans, paintballs, golfballs, basketballs, Coke-Cola and Pop Rock experiements Coke and Mentos experiments, chemical experients like mixing certain cleaning agents with dog poo and emptying out eggs and putting the chemical creation in the hollowed shell. Hey, let's see what happens to it when we leave it out in the hot So. California sun all day! Yay. It is sometimes scary, but more often fun, to have a son.

Remember "Mikey" on the Life Cereal commercials? An old rumor/legend says he died experimenting Coke and Pop Rocks. Not true. "Mikey" is still alive-Pop Rocks didn't kill Little Mikey (not my Michael), his real-life alter ego, John Gilchrist is still alive and working as an ad exec for a New York radio station.