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 […]
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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. […]
Problem Child
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
I’m hot and when I’m not I’m cold as ice – Young, Young & Scott Pervasive summer fog punctuates another longish San Francisco stay, and by trip’s end I find my condition mirroring the area’s meteorological state: low, even, and not letting up any time soon. The flight is always shorter west-east, and thankfully so. […]
Mean Streets of Marin
Sunday, July 26, 2009
I park my car on Bon Air, alongside Marin General and cross light traffic to the bike path by the Corte Madera Creek. It’s the same path I’d pedal to Kent School every morning in the seventh grade, and as I break in to a jog, visions return. There’s the twelve year-old Bruce Strahmborne (not […]
Coming Home
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
It’s time I amended a May 17th posting and observation that I made below. After attending a Mets-Giants game in San Francisco earlier this season, I remarked “The Mets may not be favored to go all the way this year, but they’ve got a far better club than the Giants.” Less than two months later, […]
Liberty
Monday, June 29, 2009
While I’m at this photo-posting bit, here’s one of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, as seen from my roof this past weekend. It seems an appropriate image, on the cusp of the upcoming holiday. I looked the word “liberty” up, and among various definitions my favorite was “freedom from arbitrary or despotic […]
New York Sunset
Friday, June 26, 2009
A neighbor watches the sunset following a particularly intense thunder and lightning storm.
Three The Hard Way
Friday, June 26, 2009
Quite a day for celebrity deaths, yesterday. Farrah Fawcett checked out, followed closely behind by Michael Jackson. Soon after this news, a rumor circulated that the actor Jeff Goldblum had bought the farm as well, but this proved false. This was good news, both for Goldblum and advocates of the theory that show business deaths […]
On The Beach
Thursday, June 11, 2009
well this is no New York street and there’s no bobby on the beat and things ain’t just what they seem -Van Morrison There’s a lineup of old black dudes displaying their wares on long collapsible tables on the sidewalk beside the West Fourth Street subway exit in the Village. Old vinyl LPs and audio […]