Category Archives: Posting
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 […]
Large Pie To Go
Friday, May 13, 2011
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 […]
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 […]