Really? Sheesh. I can’t say I was ever a huge Whitney Houston fan, but she definitely first hit during some very formative years of mine. She was one of the first women I ever looked at and thought “how could anyone be that good-looking?” (That was probably the video for “How Will I Know?”) Nancy, [...]
Prolific and Emmy award-winning actor Ben Gazzara died this morning. He was 81. The New York Times article—which I somehow was able to read an hour or so ago but which is now demanding login credentials, therefore preventing me from linking to it— disingenuously and snobbishly avoids any mention of what is surely Gazzara’s greatest [...]
Our longtime friend Alex is an architect. As systematic as he is, he may be better suited to his occupation than anyone else we know. So six or seven years ago, we were visiting over a beer, and he was telling me about his Saturday morning. He had a backyard construction project going, and he [...]
Longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died this morning. He was 85. This really should have been an easy post to write. There is quite a lot to say about Paterno’s extensive contributions to the Penn State community, his commitment to academic excellence, and his coaching accomplishments. There aren’t many things that could have [...]
I wrote “rarely senselessly vulgar; frequently slightly tacky” early on in my blog’s life, and it’s still usually what I say when I’m asked to provide a blog description. I envisioned it mostly as a content warning, though I also liked the transposition of the syllable structure from the first phrase to the second. I [...]
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