If most men, as Henry David Thoreau pointed out, lead lives of quiet desperation, it isn’t because there aren’t alternatives. I was pondering this the other day after a guy asked me for directions to Lucali Pizzeria (which is only a few blocks from my apartment) and then added “that’s the place where the two […]
Category Archives: Posting
Fun, Fun, Fun.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Tim Lincecum and the Giants were in town last week, facing the Mets for a three game series and serving reminder that we don’t always need dead, middle-aged terrorists to make us feel good about this country. Lincecum, as my vast reading audience will attest, is a favorite subject of mine. He rekindled my interest […]
Yay America
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I had an uneasy feeling Sunday night during the initial news stages of bin Laden’s death. Bored with the Mets-Phils game, I’d flipped a few channels over and caught Geraldo Rivera, chuffed as all hell, with both fists clenched mid-air in girlish gesture. A bold, red, news alert icon was at the bottom of the […]
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
Friday, April 29, 2011
I wrote something for a UK-based website a long while back, and they changed my suggested title to “Make It Happen.” Anyone possessing remote familiarity with my take on things could tell you that I’m not a “make it happen” kind of guy. It isn’t the instinct that eludes me, but the phrasing. “See What […]
Sam He Am
Monday, April 18, 2011
I wrote a definitive piece on the rock n roller Sammy Hagar some years back and before I started logging my writing on this blog in its current form. It was probably one of the better things I’ve written, and I titled it Genius Redefined. I posed a particular definition of the word (genius) that […]
Half Full
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Of all the news items through which one might ascertain that he’s led a misspent life, I tripped across this SF Chronicle piece by Warren Hinckle today – an exposé on the state of the endangered Irish coffee glass in San Francisco. No, it wasn’t reflecting on all the Irish coffees I’ve consumed that brought […]
Lies
Friday, March 25, 2011
like they teach in class – Stones There’s a great article in the current (March 28) issue of The New Yorker on the Barry Bonds trial, which is finally getting underway in San Francisco. It’s neither hit piece nor glowing defense, but subtly points to the absurdity of the time, breath, and millions of taxpayer […]
Celluloid Heroes
Monday, March 21, 2011
You see that I’ll be walking out again – Jimmy Cliff While doing some light reading on Freud this weekend (a recession-based compromise for actual therapy) I became convinced that my super-ego has been hijacked by one that’s merely okay. As potentially challenging as this sounds, it’s also rendered me with an over-developed id by […]
This American Life
Friday, March 11, 2011
Prop comic Gallagher collapsed on stage in a coronary-like incident at the Whiskey Bone Roadhouse in Minnesota last night. I’m completely up on this news item but have only a cursory grasp of the details of the 8.9 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. The 64 year-old comedian complained of pain in his left arm […]
Hope You Guess My Name
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Although we’re of the same generation, I’m not a huge Charlie Sheen fan and he’s only ever occupied a small space on the periphery of my consciousness. I saw Wall Street and Platoon, have never caught a full episode of his television show, and my awareness of the guy prior to the last few weeks […]