Archive for September 2012
Italians did good.
The Italian cover of MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGARY FRIEND, retitled IMAGINARY FRIEND, has been released. I like it a lot. You?
Read MoreThat man from Nantucket is seriously profane.
For twenty years or more, I have listened to people in movies and on television begin reciting the limerick “There Once Was a Man from Nantucket” and then stop after the first line and laugh, acknowledging that the next lines contained profanity of some kind. Oddly enough, I had never bothered to look for the…
Read MoreUnfair assumption #1: The larger a man’s watch, the smaller his personal sense of self worth.
In an effort to be more aware of my own prejudices and biases, I have begun examining some of my potentially less-than-fair assumptions about people and life. I’ll be posting them here from time to time. Please note that these are not necessarily unfair but potentially so. I’m only admitting to the possibility that I…
Read MoreEvery time you watch this video, you’ll see something new.
I can’t get enough of this video. The people, the movement, the assortment of objects the background. It’s utterly fascinating.
Read MoreGift giving is not supposed to be an opportunity to show us how special you are.
A friend and I were recently speaking about the upcoming wedding of a mutual friend. Specifically, we were discussing the gift that she planned on bringing to the wedding. I told her that I knew that the couple could use cash to help them pay for the wedding and had put the word out to…
Read MoreCaine’s Arcade is back with an equally joyous follow-up story
In case you didn’t see Caine’s Arcade when I posted about it last spring, you should take a moment and watch it now. It is pure joy and inspiration. If you’ve already watched it, you might want to watch it again. I did, and it was ten minutes well spent. Again. Best of all, there’s…
Read MoreI refuse to give the high school jerks a free pass, regardless of conventional wisdom
Logic says that we shouldn’t continue to blame a person for being a jerk in high school because it was high school. Teenagers are not fully developed human beings, peer pressure can be incredibly intense and people often change a great deal in the years following high school. But here’s the thing: Many people chose…
Read MoreWe won that game three separate times, and then we lost.
Excluding Super Bowl losses and a playoff loss to the New York Jets a couple years ago, yesterday’s Patriots loss to the Arizona Cardinals might have been the most difficult loss to bear in my entire life, for the following reasons: 1. It broke a home opener winning streak which began ten years ago with…
Read More30 real reasons to be grateful for living
I did not enjoy Barrie Davenport’s piece entitled 30 Reasons to be Grateful for Living. When your list includes items such vagaries as nature, emotions, life and service people, it fails the obvious test and ceases to be meaningful. You simply cannot list life as one of the reasons that you are grateful for living.…
Read MoreJust admit that you think homosexuality is yucky. Don’t drag religion into it.
A couple days a ago I posted a letter that was forwarded to me by a reader regarding gay marriage. It was pointed out to me soon after that The West Wing has a scene that conveys a similar message. The message in both the letter and the scene from The West Wing is simple:…
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