If you're looking for a good fund raising idea, why not hold a wine tasting. It's not expensive to put together, so your costs are low.

In the 1990s, DVD was the fastest growing technological phenomenon in history. People were buying DVD players faster than their parents bought televisions in the 1950s. Suddenly, high quality digital video made the old VCR look very old fashioned.

By now, you may have seen some billboards around the area – plain white ones with phrases like "I am so over Sarah Marshall" or "My mom always hated you Sarah Marshall."

Oh, I know what you're thinking. "Hey, Brian, isn't it a little early to be writing about Christmas – much less complaining about it?"

My point exactly.