The old adage that when “man plans, God laughs” describes all too well the year 2024. It’s not that my well-scripted ’24 has been a particularly crappy year. I mean, seriously, remember 2020? We try to sweep it into the dark corners of our memory, treat it as ancient history, hope the gauziness of time… Read More Man plans
Jack Klugman was a basset-faced stage and screen actor known mostly, by people of a certain age, for his role as the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison in the early 1970s TV adaptation of the Neil Simon play, The Odd Couple. Klugman, who died in 2012, played opposite Tony Randall’s fastidious Felix Unger in the hit… Read More Quincy
Among the 63 abandoned posts listed under “drafts” in my WordPress blog account is a 1,480-word bear of a thing that I knocked out a couple weeks ago. It is — or was, I guess, or maybe more accurately, never will be — on the upcoming election. That drafts tab, let me point out, is… Read More Ooops
Catching up … It’s election day in Georgia, or Election Day, I guess, which means it’s time to get out and vote. I missed early voting for this particular primary election (back off; I’m a busy man), which covers races for at least one state Supreme Court judge, some lesser judges, a county clerk here… Read More Naturally
A week or so before Christmas, I was browsing one of those trendy boutique shops that have popped up around our new downtown, desperately searching for a one-of-a-kind present for that special someone in my life. At that point, though, a week before Christmas, any kind of anywhere-close-to-unique token would have worked. For anyone on… Read More This Is It
In early May, I broke my finger, a boo-boo from bad basketball that, at the time, was certainly painful but, it seemed, destined to be not much more than that. In a few weeks time, I figured, I would be back on the court, back on the keyboard, back at everything I was doing (however… Read More On Allen Iverson and RatWoman
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