Archive For February 28, 2019
You know how on Facebook you get these annoying updates, reminding you about stuff that happened years ago. Stuff you’d forgotten about. Well, here’s February 22, 2016. And thanks for playing along. – JDW I call this… patience and wisdom. Ever to smell so sweet. But what about her nerve? Or does she know something…
I was the kind of kid who might take a poster off the wall as a souvenir. Actually collect NO TRESPASSING signs from places I wasn’t s’posed to be at. So anyway when this kid came home dead to no parades, thought it was sad, real sad. Then three guys make it back and our…
I found Spike Lee’s Academy Award acceptance speech to be particularly moving. Not that I stayed up late enough to see it live. And I have noticed how Dr. MLK Blvd. never goes through a nice part of town. No matter where you live. The word today is “irony.” The date, the 24th. The month,…
by Alex Fitzgerald, professional poker player. This guy was 250 pounds of pure muscle, and he was grabbing me. I didn’t know who he was. He ran up on me without warning. And I was grateful. I was in a gym in Queens a few weeks back. My girlfriend and I decided to try the…
“I am wary of a lot of things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny. I am wary of the…
A wrong decision is better than indecision. – Tony Soprano “Sanders is 77 years old and a straight white male.” “Those are all marks against him in a contest where many Democrats are eager to nominate a woman or someone from a minority group.” Heard that on The Hill.Seems racist and sexist and ageist and heterophobic. He’s not young enough. He’s…
My review of The Running Mind (World Publications) by Jim Lilliefors appeared in the May 12, 1979 edition of On The Run. – JDW A coach – football, of course – once told his team that “the game is fifty (50) percent physical and sixty (60) percent mental.” It is yet to be determined if…
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. – Peggy O’Mara Conversation at my first gallery opening. “Been drawing dogs for over thirty years now.” “That’s a dog?” The wine was free. Some pieces went unsold.
“Yes? How may I help you?” The way Jose Cruz answers his phone should give you some small idea about his personality. Affirmative, friendly, helpful. Been friends for over four decades. He’s given me far more than he’s gotten back. When I met him, shortly thereafter maybe, he had his kitchen remodeled. Cost an amazing…
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.― Robert A. Heinlein Came across another fan letter from the 1980s. Used to get a lot of letters, not always this nice. Jack, you make me sick. What is wrong with giving thanks for what…