In his excellent film Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody Allen plays an underachieving documentary filmmaker who attempts to woo Mia Farrow by showing her his latest project on a renowned professor and philosopher named Lewis Levy. Allen shows Farrow some footage from his film with Levy discussing the subject of love: What we are aiming at when […]
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Go Blue
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
If I should fall from grace with God where no doctor can relieve me – MacGowan I saw Steve Earle play the City Winery on Varick Street Monday night, a fine coastal transition the day after flying in from San Francisco. He opened with a geared-down version of the Pogues’ If I Should Fall From […]
Meatballs
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
There are multiple ways to gauge the significance of a sporting event. Attendance and television ratings come to mind, as do post-season implications and shared history between the two teams. In the case of the 49ers’ playoff loss to the New York Giants last weekend, recovery time seems relevant. Not the time it takes for […]
Sprint Right Option
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
smiling and waving and looking so fine – Bowie Took a walk Sunday night after couching it with the NFL wild card all afternoon.Who does this Tim Tebow kid think he is, thanking his Lord and Savior and giving all credit to his teammates? Doesn’t he know that folks like their religious references kept obscure, […]
Happy Valley
Friday, November 11, 2011
“Don’t confuse me with those who have hope .. I sincerely believe that if you think there’s a solution, you’re part of the problem.” I posted this quote from the late George Carlin a few weeks back and noted that I found something oddly optimistic in his pessimism. Taken in context beside his thoughts on […]
Could’ve Should’ve Etc.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
This is the Chiclets Mansion, also known as the Thomas Adams, Jr. House, at 119 Eighth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I lived here for a spell in 2004 and even wrote about the experience. The mansion is converted in to apartments, and mine was just below the attic level and seen as the four […]
Dead Carlin In ’12
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Disappointed in Obama and feel that you got short-changed on your Hope and Change? Frightened by the prospect of having a guy named ‘Mitt’ in the White House? Sick of being of reasonable mind in the middle and knowing that no candidate you might back would ever make it to the final ballot? Disgusted by […]
Occupy Zuccotti Park
Friday, October 14, 2011
What a gloriously perplexing place America must be to the outsider visiting for the first time. This was my thought yesterday, waking to an Internet news blurb about the actor Joseph Son, a super-sized martial arts expert who fulfilled the American Dream by landing a solid role as Mike Meyers’ henchman, Random Task, in the […]
Kutcher Jobs Report
Friday, October 7, 2011
So Steve Jobs died. I know this because Facebook is flooded with hundreds of postings noting his greatness and the personal impact he had on the lives of ordinary Internet users. There are clever iconic images using his profile in place of the bite taken out of the side of an apple, and cartoons depicting […]
Dot, Dot, Dot.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Herb Caen, the much-celebrated, pre-Internet columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, used ellipses to separate the segments of his daily writing and called his work “three-dot journalism.” It was really just a device to string together a series of unrelated, gossipy blurbs, and call it a column. And it worked. Success, in whichever form it […]