I’m buying a twelve dollar bottle of California Pinot Noir Monday night and the sixty-something guy behind the counter (not the owner but an amiable sort and Mets fan) is talking Crazy Joe Gallo with a compadre from the old neighborhood. “I worked for Joey when I was a kid,” Liquor Store Guy says, “running […]
Category Archives: Posting
Ballad Of A Thin, Right-Handed Pitcher
Friday, November 20, 2009
I’m not much one for follow-up postings, but I’ll supplement the below rant with a post-show evaluation. If all Bob Dylan did at the United Palace Theater last night was perform Ballad Of A Thin Man it would have been worth dragging my ass up to Harlem. Still being a relative neophyte at these shows […]
Most Of The Time
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
all the merry little elves can go hang themselves my faith is as cold as can be If it’s Thursday it must be Dylan. This Thursday, anyway, up in Harlem. I can’t seem to string too much together these days that’s worth remembering, but I keep listening to Bob. Why? I could only take him […]
Classically Fall
Friday, October 30, 2009
Baseball, as I’ve noted exhaustively in the past, is about coming home. I didn’t coin the notion, but heard it first from a college professor who co-taught a course on the history and literature of the game. It stuck with me above other interpretations of this highly-interpreted subject. Sure, baseball is about America .. just […]
Blame It On Cain
Monday, October 26, 2009
I’m on the Sixth Avenue Local, sometimes called the F, trying not to spill my lukewarm coffee and staring at a poster for the new Courteney Cox vehicle Cougar Town, a TV program with the tag line “40 is the new 20.” Yeah, sure it is. Just like fat is the new thin, bondage the […]
2434 Leavenworth
Monday, September 28, 2009
I was talking to my dad the other day, and he was raving about a new video camera that my brother bought – a high definition, direct to hard drive model which apparently produces amazing images. The future of image-capturing devices appears limitless, and their capacity to store large amounts of digital information in the […]
The Little Things
Thursday, September 17, 2009
“Don’t sweat the little things, and remember that everything is a little thing.” This advice was doled out by a girlfriend’s mother a long while back, when I was going through a relatively rocky stretch. She wasn’t trying to pass it off as original; she’d heard someone say it on a talk show. The first […]
Of Subways and Sit-Downs
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Tom Myers (on the left) and Scott Coleman Miller were visiting me in New York this past week. I often associate one with the other – they were roommates for a while and both worked in the print department at my family’s company. Tom was actually Scott’s boss, though when I point this out he […]
Boom, Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Friday, August 28, 2009
The weather broke in New York City yesterday and a two week span of ninety degree days shifted in to something cooler and more palatable. This morning’s light rain and upper sixties temperatures felt like San Francisco – with an added boost of perspective, coming on the heels of everything that a Big Apple August […]
Don Draper Logic
Monday, August 17, 2009
Mad Men kicked off its third season on AMC last night, and it’s either jumped the proverbial shark or is heading into exciting and uncharted waters, depending on your slant. It’s no Sopranos-grade production and its creator Matthew Weiner is no David Chase, despite the former having worked for the latter on said superior program. […]