It’s halfway through July, the high point of summer, and a run of ninety degree days has given way to mid eighties temperatures and the threat of heavy rain. I’ve noted it before – New York weather lends itself to the city and possesses weight, distinction and authority. When the sky makes up its mind […]
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Some Truths About Baseball
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I used to have a love – hate relationship with baseball, but in recent years it’s evolved into an indifferent – somewhat less indifferent relationship. I played as a kid. My brother’s a big fan and the game occupies as much of my dad’s frontal lobe as eating or sleeping. Back in 1987 I attended […]
Clint, Spike etc.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
One of the better moments in Oscar history came in 1993 when Barbra Streisand stepped to the podium to present the award for best director. The theme for that year’s ceremony was “The Year of the Woman” and Streisand was introduced as the “woman who directed The Prince of Tides.” Before opening the envelope, she said […]
Max Orange Logic
Friday, June 27, 2008
I wouldn’t belong to any club that would accept me as a member -Groucho Marx I’m not certain on the definition of a successful writer, but when your novel’s title enters the modern lexicon as an independent entity, you’re probably doing OK. Such was Joseph Heller’s experience with Catch-22. The book has been praised as […]
4.5%
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
I was seven when George Carlin’s “Class Clown” came out. I remember being at a party at the Picetti’s house and being sent to another room with the rest of the kids while the adults listened to the album in the living room. The next weekend, my older brother procured the LP at Tower in […]
Rain Shame
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Scottish are a bit like Joe DiMaggio – they don’t get it. The great Yankee Clipper reportedly failed to comprehend the Simon and Garfunkel line “where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” and his own status as a national icon. “I’m still here,” Jolting Joe protested. “Haven’t they heard of Mr. Coffee?” The passport official […]
Good Hearting Gone Bad
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
you got a heart so big it could crush this town -Petty I think I used that tune as a lead in about five years ago, and wrote something about the heart .. how some claim that it has intuitive properties much like the brain and is capable of influencing reason, spirit and behavior. Most […]
Reelin’ In The Spears
Thursday, April 17, 2008
I think you’d better call John ’cause it don’t look like they’re here to deliver .. the mail. -more Neil I was showing someone an old comic strip of John Spears the other day, by way of explaining who he was. It was in a large album of other strips I’d done, with titles like […]
Hymn To Her
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Well they raised that horse to be a jumper .. Tom Myers once told me that he heard the “I was flyin’” line in Tom Petty’s Runnin’ Down A Dream song as “I was sublime.” I myself once thought the “how my poor heart aches” line in Sting’s Every Breath You Take was “I’m a […]
Big Muddy
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
nothin’ illegal; just a little bit funny Springsteen wrote the tune, in deference to Pete Seeger, on 1992’s Lucky Town. It’s a difficult one for me to get through now, because I have a specific memory of my old pal John C. Spears wading in my parents’ swimming pool, clad only in what my brother […]