The famed author and recluse J.D. Salinger died this week at 91. Most obituaries noted both his reclusive nature and less than prolific output as a novelist, neither of which would merit much remark had he not produced something worth reading. Recluses are a dime a dozen – and as someone once noted, you’re not […]
Category Archives: Posting
Dodge
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Every little thing is temporary – Vic Chesnutt The late-thirty-something business chick at SFO’s International (and JetBlue’s Domestic) Terminal is holding court with two twenty-something, clean-cut, glad-to-be-employed underling dudes, all of them enjoying a responsible late-morning beverage at the Firewood Grill airport bistro. “The objective,” she asserts confidently, “is to get the team to collaborate […]
We All Have It Coming, Kid
Monday, December 21, 2009
Ashton Mourns Brittany; Tweets Heartfelt Words. This was an actual internet headline this morning for a blurb on the death of 32 year-old actress Brittany Murphy. And they wonder why people get suicidal at this time of year. I should preface this with the prerequisite observation that there’s nothing much funny about a young woman’s […]
Kern River Colonial
Saturday, December 12, 2009
I’ve been watching the Paul Giamatti John Adams mini series of late – a fine show if you can get past the emphasis on accurately portraying the barbaric medical practices of the time. Open-wound smallpox cures, bloodletting and anesthesia-free surgery quickly lose novelty in a post-dinner environment. It does help illustrate the collective colonial fortitude […]
Crazy Joey Youtube
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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 […]
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 […]