Blog tales of the Modern Man
The time has come. After endless conversations with all too many men both younger and singler than me, it seems that some concise, friendly coaxing is not doing the job. Subtlety will not suffice. The pandemic of the Young Single Man (YSM) cannot be contained. How I have come to know and be in pointed […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 6 years to get […]
Bummer. That’s the “Love and Logic” word we use for Evan when he makes a bad choice. Bummer. Apparently the child therapy gods have convened and decided that anything more descriptive than that will cause irreparable harm. Given the fact that the only childhood perma-scars that I’m aware of are my own, I’m willing to acquiesce to […]
“I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life, I don’t apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused—to be a fool—dancing on the string, held by all those—big shots. I don’t apologize that’s my life—but I thought that it was your time—that—that you would be the one to hold the […]
Sunset Boulevard - A Film Review The erratic and plasticized Norma Desmond [Gloria Swanson] stands atop her swirling cloud staircase, her Valentino-tiled drawing room sprawling below. She is director Billy Wilder’s homage to the Hollywood we’ve lost and Sunset Boulevard is his soliloquy. The reputed tale of madness and the dark side of Hollywoodland, Sunset is […]
