It’s Not HBO, It’s Our Neighborhood
We are slowly working our way through the current season of The Sopranos, about three weeks behind, courtesy of tapes graciously recorded by my father’s golf partner in Long Island and handed off to me in monthly visits with my parents. (“You don’t have ‘On Demand?’” scoffed one of the kids I tutor, upon finding […]
Read MoreSuperLefty Zooms Into the Late 1990’s
Hey! Look! The archives work! There aren’t that many, because Mecury was in retrograde for the last year-and-some and I was a lazy and neurotic loser, prone to starting posts, then drifting away from the computer for hours or days at a time, only to return and say, “Who wrote this? What is this angry […]
Read MoreA Weekend Like Many Other Weekends
In the midst of this weekend, I bring you the story of last weekend. It was one of those weekends that started Thursday and lasted until Monday. First, the ukulele concert I had been looking forward to attending was cancelled due to extreme illness on the part of the ukulelist. “Dammit,” I said to myself, […]
Read MoreI don’t understand
I don’t understand how HTML works. I don’t understand how the operating system of my computer works. I don’t understand why the archives on this blog do not work. I don’t understand how a bill becomes a law. I don’t understand what people of the opposite sex think, do, say or feel and why they […]
Read MoreSouvenirs
I saw a photograph on the front page of the New York Times last year that chilled me. In the middleground of the shot, Iraqi children, some of them wearing baseball caps emblazoned with the names of American football teams, smiled shyly for the camera while they jostled each other for places in a short […]
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