Some blog-friends of mine asked that I include the following, and I’m happy to do so … best wishes to Orien Rose.
Blogging for Orien Rose
Orien Rose is a miracle. She is a nine year old girl who, just over a year ago, was in a horrific boating accident. There was skull, facial, and brain [...]
Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
We take requests …
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Harvey Korman (1927 – 2008)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I spent a fair amount of my childhood watching Harvey Korman on television and in films. He was never the lead role, but he stole every scene he was in, whether it was a Carol Burnett sketch, a scene in a Mel Brooks film, or playing the Great Kazoo on The Flintstones (“Hello, dumdum …”).
Now [...]
He was funnier on King of Queens …
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t want this blog to be about just posting the latest YouTube clip, but take a look at this (you can skip to 2:10 to see the part that everyone will be talking about):
Sometimes one of these clips d’jour highlights a point or two that’s been rattling around in my [...]
More at 11.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Doesn’t get any better than this …
Hail Friedman!
Posted in Writers, tagged Thomas Friedman on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I’m sure that I will comment on Friedman regularly here, let me just say flat out that I’m a fan. Not a blind disciple. Not a lemming. Just a fan of his work for his clarity and his talent for making very complex concepts very easily understood.
I haven’t heard anyone else [...]
Stage Right
Posted in Writers, tagged Malcolm Gladwell, Slate, The Moth on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Writer/journalist Malcolm Gladwell a couple years ago got up on a stage in New York City, at a get-together called The Moth, and regaled the audience with a story from his early years as a writer at the Washington Post.
The Moth is a not-for-profit outfit designed to recreate the romance and mythology around the spoken [...]
