Trump’s use of the word “shithole” the other day got me thinking — not about Haiti or Nigeria — but rather the climatic scene in the film “Unforgiven.” William Munny (Clint Eastwood) walks silently into Greely’s Saloon where his partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) is displayed out front in an open, upright coffin with a […]
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Saul Rubinek Blues
Thursday, December 21, 2017
“Well he should’a armed himself .. if he’s gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.” – Eastwood I was sitting in my old Noe Valley apartment a long while back with a friend, watching ‘Unforgiven.’ If it isn’t my favorite all-time movie it’s top-three without voting. “I wonder who we would’ve been,” she mused, “if […]
You’re A Funny Guy
Friday, November 10, 2017
“Well you know she still laughs with me / but she waits just a second too long” – John Prine One of the funniest things I ever read was an Onion headline back in 2004 during the Jim McGreevey scandal: “Homosexual Tearfully Admits To Being Governor of New Jersey.” It works on so many levels […]
Petty Thoughts
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Here it is three days later and I’m still bummed out. This doesn’t generally happen to me, not for these reasons. He was a pop star; a rock ‘n’ roller and celebrity who hung out with Harrison and Dylan. He smoked like a chimney and made it to sixty-six, died in fairly unspectacular fashion and […]
Of Pancakes And Porridge
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Denis Munro from Perth, Scotland is a conundrum with a Sean Connery accent. A cuisine-phobic, teetotaling man-about-the-High Street decked in snappy sports jacket with a neatly folded hanky. “The hanky is sewn into the pocket” he explained as I dropped him off for a ten-day Alaskan cruise departing San Francisco. The week before saw us […]
Blame The Vain
Saturday, September 2, 2017
If I could choose one God-given gift it would be a good singing voice. I can strum a few chords and butcher my way through an original tune while relying upon questionable wit and song parody. But to really sing in a manner that makes one pause from her drink to look up and find […]
The Low-Carb Anarchist Cookbook
Monday, July 10, 2017
I watched two documentary films, by chance and back to back, during a recent Netflix binge. One is called New York Doll and focuses on the life of Arthur “Killer” Kane, bass player for the seminal NYC punk band The New York Dolls. The other, American Anarchist, is about the life of William Powell, author […]
Millertown
Sunday, June 11, 2017
To understand the Minneapolis-based kinetic sculptor, filmmaker and artist Scott “Coleman” Miller, one needs to understand his vocabulary. It involves little premeditation and flows naturally. Near the top of the heap are the tried and true “splank,” “na-gooshed,” (pronounced ‘na-GOOSHED’) and “sheesh.” Sheesh is an expression of exasperation, as in “I spent all night applying […]
No Friend Of Yours
Friday, May 12, 2017
Some friend of a friend of a friend of mine – Petty, “What’re You Doin’ In My Life?” “Share Your Facebook Memories” is a recent feature on the internet titan that allows users to auto-generate a post from four or five years back and re-distribute some enthusiastic highlight from their past. I’m not sure how Facebook […]
Nobody Home
Thursday, March 23, 2017
“I got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains” – Waters What’s of greater value — getting better with something at which you’re innately good, or good with something at which you struggle ? I would argue for the latter, though there is no right answer. Clearly those starting out best at what […]