“It’s just a job you know, and it’s not Sweet Lorraine“- Van Morrison New York Times writer Eric Lichtblau wrote an essay for the August 29 edition commenting on “baseball’s lost innocence.” The piece was inspired by a recent eight-game, six-stadium ballpark tour with his twelve year-old son — a truncated version of a tour […]
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Coddled Kids & Shrooms
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Movin’s the closest thing to bein’ free – Waylon Went to see the Red Headed Stranger in Prospect Park last night. That’s Willie Nelson for those not in the know, and not Danny Bonaduce. Although Bonaduce might have been a welcome addition to the crowd which, from my estimate, contained mostly fourth generation hipsters and […]
Courage Be A Lady
Monday, July 20, 2015
So they gave the Arthur Ashe ESPY Award for courage to Caitlyn Jenner. While it made for great television, I have to admit to being confused. Despite not making it to fifty and suffering from both AIDs and heart disease, Ashe himself persevered as an important public spokesman for both causes. Notable past Ashe Award winners […]
TV Sky
Monday, July 13, 2015
Have not written here for a while, or anywhere else for that matter outside of wedding cards and credit card receipts. Seems I skipped an entire month. Oh well. In the time since my last post I’ve been in London, Scotland, New York, San Francisco, and Princeton, New Jersey. I’ve touched base with old, new, […]
Dave Ad Nauseam
Friday, May 22, 2015
I feel the need to add an epilogue to my previous post about David Letterman. Watching his final broadcast on Wednesday night filled me with unexpected emotion and nostalgia. His refusal to bow to sentiment both choked me up and made me laugh out loud. From monologue to frenetic closing montage he hit every note […]
Indiana Nights
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Not to play the hackneyed “boy am I old” card, (in the words of the immortal Hank Kingsley “fuck it, let’s face it — I am“) but I remember when David Letterman had a morning show on NBC. It spanned the summer of 1980 lasting just four months, but was a precursor to his best work starting […]
Losing It
Thursday, April 16, 2015
‘Beyond here lies nothin’ Nothin’ but the moon and stars‘ – Dylan As AMC’s popular, long-running ‘Mad Men’ series draws to a close, it offers multiple parallels to David Chase’s ‘The Sopranos.’ Creator Matthew Weiner wrote for Chase, penning several later episodes that delved deeply into Tony Soprano’s subconscious mind. “I’m 46 years old,” Tony asks, deep […]
Slap This
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
I’ve been watching an NBC show called “The Slap” of late. It’s an adaptation of an Australian TV series which is based upon a novel of the same name. I make no apologies for watching the show, despite its absolutely sucking. This is just the way it is, sometimes. The series revolves around an incident at […]
It’s Not You, It’s Me
Saturday, February 7, 2015
(Spoiler alerts, blah blah blah ..) I watched the Spike Jonze flick “Her” the other night. Jonze, who was born Adam Spiegel and attended the San Francisco Art Institute, wrote and directed the film. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, a man who becomes emotionally involved with an intelligent, female-voiced computer operating system named […]
American Juno
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor – Bowie The Mother of All Snow Events was scheduled to hit New York Monday night, but by Tuesday morning it more resembled a brother in law who borrows your power drill then loses the bit. Ever since 2005 and W’s less than spectacular response […]