In the final scene of Four Friends, a 1981 coming-of-age comedy-drama-whacko film about four working-class teens in the ’60s, the title characters are gathered around a beach fire on the Lake Michigan shore. It’s several years after high school. The half-decade or so since already has taken a toll on the now 20somethings in horrible,… Read More Movietime: Four Friends
My mom called it “gravy meat,” which is pretty much exactly what it was. It began with a pound of ground beef, as inexpensive as ol’ Mom could find, browned in a pan on a gas range in our tiny, mousey — literally, with mice — galley kitchen in our central Delaware home. A little… Read More Funny food
According to Wikipedia, the font of all knowledge, the U.S. has 59 national parks. They range from Acadia in Maine to Hawaii Volcanoes on the big island of Hawaii, from Olympic, west of Seattle, to Dry Tortugas a little off of Key West, Florida. A person could spend a hefty lifetime of vacations — or… Read More Wide open spaces
My annual golf trip with my brothers is this weekend, and I am approaching it like I always do; ill prepared and hardly giving a damn about how bad I’m liable to be. Hardly. Some day, some day soon, it would be nice to drive over to Pawleys Island, just south of Myrtle Beach, and… Read More Just be the damn ball
Gambling is either in your blood or it’s not. I don’t mean gambling, as in taking everyday chances. Everybody takes a chance every once in a while. Just the other day, I bit into a whole jalapeno at a place in Moab, Utah. That could have gone south in a hurry. No, I mean gambling… Read More Always a crapshoot
Recorded comedy bits have been around for a long time, before the turn of the last century. A vaudevillian named Cal Stewart was doing jokes as “Uncle Josh” Weathersby back in 1897, according to an excerpt on a PBS site. And if you can’t trust public broadcasting … Uncle Josh was a rube from New… Read More Funny, not funny
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