I have something in common with Brett Pill, the San Francisco Giant who recently put a mild spark into what has been an otherwise difficult season for the team by hitting a home run in his first major league at bat. I, too, homered in my first at bat while playing Wii Baseball with my […]
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Golden Age Of Dzundza
Sunday, August 14, 2011
I watched The Deer Hunter the other night – for the first time, really. I’d seen it on Showtime when I was a kid, back when uncut films playing on pay television were a novelty. I realized, revisiting it, that I’d never watched it through to completion. It was a conversation about George Dzundza, of […]
Road To Gila Bend
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I got nothing. Not literally, of course; I’m not so oblivious as to discredit family, friends, or my general good fortune. But sometimes it’s reflexive – the first thing that pops into your head when trying to think of something to write or offer something to say. I got nothing. “I’ve” would be the correct […]
Karmic 45
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
I spotted the Crazy Lady from my building yesterday while doing some grocery shopping at the market next door. Any building numbering over fifty apartments in New York City is issued one crazy lady by code. It’s right there on the ledger .. go ahead and look. The problem with this requirement is that crazy […]
D.O.B.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Merv Griffin, Burt Ward and Janet Leigh all share my birthday – as do Nancy Reagan, George W. Bush and Sly Stallone. Ned Beatty, Fred Dryer and the Dalai Lama were also born on July 6th, as were 50 Cent, Willie Randolph and Peter Singer. That last guy is an Australian philosopher about whom I […]
Scotland The Varied
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
I was having a coffee with my buddy Denis at the Stewart Tower Dairy Farm a few weeks back. Stewart Tower is located off the A9 between Perth and Dunkeld, not far from Ardoch and Airntully. The place is supposed to have some of the best ice cream in Scotland, but we weren’t having any […]
2011, Ink On Napkin
Thursday, June 16, 2011
In honor of Father’s Day this Sunday, I present these four self-portraits drawn by my dad on the same piece of napkin during our recent trip to Scotland. I glanced over one morning to see him doodling away at the kitchen table. While drawing is something that’s occupied a good part of my own life, […]
Professionals
Thursday, June 9, 2011
I ran in to my mailman two days ago, on the precipice of this brutal heat wave now fully enveloping Brooklyn. You get to know your mailman here whether you’re an introvert or extrovert, always in or always out. “Those the parents?” he asked with a wry grin, having seen me tuck them in to […]