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 […]
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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 […]
Hi-ya
Friday, June 5, 2009
walk away from trouble if you can –Kenny Rogers So David Carradine is dead, possibly (but not definitively) the result of auto-erotic asphyxiation. At least there’s still one off-color habit in which I’ve yet to indulge. Thai police, who found Carradine in his Bangkok hotel, said that he had cords around both his neck and […]
Born In Time Out Of Mind
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
askin’ the cops wherever I go “have you seen dignity?” – Bob Dylan Thankfully, there are no time tables for musical appreciation. Somewhere, over the last five years, I became a big Bob Dylan fan. I realize, of course, that I’m not the first to lay mad accolades on the dude. I’d listened to Blonde […]
Notes On A Ballgame
Sunday, May 17, 2009
I was out at AT&T Part in San Francisco yesterday watching the Giants take on the Mets – the first West Coast game I’ve attended in over a year. The currently great Johan Santana was facing the once untouchable Randy Johnson. This, along with untypically warm San Francisco weather and a chance to sit in […]
Papa Don’t Take No Mess
Friday, May 15, 2009
Pizza .. how did you know? – Jeannie Berlin to Charles Grodin in “The Heartbreak Kid” So I’m kicking it with a few friends in New York a month or two back, and one of them mentions that he’s a huge Charles Grodin fan. “The Heartbreak Kid,” I say immediately and without hesitation, and am […]
420-Friendly; Must Be in to Knives
Friday, April 24, 2009
So how about that Craigslist Killer, to borrow a line prefacing many a comedy bit these days. I’ve always maintained that no good can come from Craigslist, outside of the narrow context of needing a piece of large furniture removed from your apartment. Even then it’s a roll of the dice. Craigslist Killer – this […]
Triples and Tunes
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Exile On Johnny Ryall Street Baseball and music – two things without which my life would be much emptier. We had Giants season tickets when I was a kid back in ’78 and I talked my dad in to re-upping the deal in ’86 when I started driving our company delivery truck. The G-Men had […]
The Weight
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
he just grinned and shook my hand and “no” was all he said – Robertson/Dylan So that Seth Rogen kid lost a ton of weight, which may not bode well for his comedic persona. While the formerly fat may register close to the naturally thin at weigh-ins, the resemblance often stops there. If you put […]
Positively Facebook
Monday, March 16, 2009
Bernard Madoff has 1,558 friends. What’s the deal with Facebook? I can’t claim total ignorance, as I registered on the site with neither picture nor profile at the prompting of an old work friend a while back. Then, a few months ago, another old acquaintance asked me to be her “friend” and when I returned […]