It’s official – I’ve got World Cup Fever. Rampant, rabid, rousing, rampaging World Cup Fever. After America’s stunning upset tie with England yesterday, I’ve re-thought my stubborn, quasi-xenophobic aversion to what the rest of the civilized world calls The Beautiful Game. I’ve reconsidered my country’s immature obsession with winning, and learned to relish coming up […]
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Replay This
Monday, June 7, 2010
Armando Galarraga. There’s a name to remember – correctly spelled with two “r’s” in the middle. As any non-comatose baseball fan is aware, the Detroit pitcher threw a perfect game against Cleveland last week. Except it wasn’t. But I’m getting ahead of myself. First, a little perspective and definition for the non-fan. A perfect game […]
Jambalaya
Friday, May 28, 2010
Honey, ain’t it funny how a crowd gathers ’round anyone livin’ life without a net? – Petty, “Dogs On The Run” Walking through my old hood in San Francisco, maybe twelve years ago, I came across a small hand-written note placed in the corner of an apartment window. “Jump and the net will appear.” I […]
Op Ed Changeup
Monday, May 17, 2010
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. – Thoreau Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion, man. – Lebowski Opinions, as Harry Callahan once noted, are like assh*les : Everybody has one. Along these same lines, the degree to which one shares his opinion is also a personal choice, and […]
Trigger Happy
Saturday, May 8, 2010
I’m at the Grand Ballroom in the Manhattan Center on Thursday night, loitering about an enjoyably mellow bar scene prior to the Willie Nelson show and sporting my (relatively) new San Francisco Giants cap – a gift bestowed by a close friend. “You like the Giants?” the guy next to me inquires accusingly and with […]
Chevy To The Levy
Thursday, May 6, 2010
You can’t stop what’s comin’ – ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity. – Ellis, “No Country For Old Men” Through some set of mildly odd circumstances, I’ve recently found myself watching the first two installments the epic six-part miniseries America: The Story of Us, now playing on the History Channel. Something about the show […]
Moving In Stereo
Monday, May 3, 2010
I’m livin’ for givin’ the Devil his due –Blue Oyster Cult My friend Heather , who visited last week from Philly, possesses perhaps the most sincere laugh on the planet. Once engaged, it eclipses mere amusement and shifts in to something more electric and potent, knowing neither decorum nor inhibition. It is equally likely to […]
False Spring
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Young people don’t know anything – especially that they’re young. -Don Draper It reached ninety-two degrees in Central Park on Wednesday afternoon, making it the hottest April 7th in recorded history. I remind myself of this two days later as I cut through Manhattan at midnight, hood pulled tight, heading for the train on a […]
Shot Of The Day
Saturday, April 3, 2010
New York Harbor, July 1908, from the lens of photographer JB Monaco.
Kentucky Rain
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Walking home Monday at midnight in the driving late-March Brooklyn rain, I hit a good twenty minute stretch. I rarely use an umbrella in New York City as it presents an awkward space-management dilemma, like navigating the already populous cement with everybody’s head expanded to triple-size. But given the hour and conditions the sidewalks were […]