Sometimes great songs literally come out of nowhere. That’s especially true with bands who had a reputation for being successful with a certain kind of song all of a sudden doing something completely different. Take the Hollies, for instance. They could best be described as a second-tier band of the 1960s British Invasion. Not quite …
I never liked Andy Kaufman all that much. He died young — supposedly — 40 years ago tomorrow. I say supposedly because there are people who believe he faked his death and make major changes in his life. Andy Kaufman on SNL, 1975 I tend to think he’s alive and has been doing one case …
One of the saddest things about growing old is how much that you love dies. I suppose I’m fortunate in several respects. I’m the oldest of five children in my family, so if things go according to plan, I will be the one to go first, and many of my college friends are 10 years …
Some of biggest aging losses are beloved authors Read More »
Mothers Day, huh? I’m not sure there is a holiday about which I have more mixed feelings, unless it’s maybe Fathers Day. I never knew my father, who disappeared before my third birthday and was never heard from again. In fact, I never knew most of my relatives on that side of the family. My …
Another of those fun old Facebook games from back in the day. The answers I have then had to be ones different from the person who challenged me. Now they just have to be different from my 2009 answers. 1. Name something you use in the shower? Shampoo. Body wash. 2. Name something a football …
It was August 1985 in Columbus, Ohio. I was in Ohio for my grandfather’s funeral. and the night before I was going to return to my home in St. Louis, I went with my sisters and my brother to the movies. It wasn’t a great movie, but I enjoyed it. In fact, there are few …
I had never heard of Joe Posnanski before he wrote “The Baseball 100” in The Athletic during the 2020 pandemic. Day by day for about four months, he counted down his list of the top 100 baseball players ever to play the game, starting with Ichiro Suzuki at 100 all the way to a number …
“Someone didn’t love you enough when you were little, did they?” When Ricky Bobby’s son Texas Ranger sees his grandfather behaving badly in Applebee’s, he has the perfect analysis for it. Of course that’s just a Will Ferrell comedy about the NASCAR circuit, but boy, doesn’t it sound like it might apply to someone else …
Freddie didn’t love Donald enough when he was little Read More »
I wish Hollywood would stop making movies about things that actually happened. For one thing, the screenwriters are incapable of telling the truth without embellishing it in some bizarre way. Take Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” for instance. The climax of the movie is Congress voting to pass the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. The vote opens with …
Hoosiers much better than Titans, but still hoked up Read More »
As difficult as it is to believe, one of Karl Rove’s most diabolical political strategies might finally be backfiring. Rove believed that if your candidate had a weakness vis a vis his opponent, you should attack as if the situation were reversed. In 2004, when George W. Bush was running for re-election, the issue of …
