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The 11th hour of the 11th Day ...
The 11th hour of the 11th Day …
Today is Armistice Day. It’s still celebrated in one manner or the other around the world, mostly, unsurprisingly, by the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, last vestiges of the British Empire that they are.
Dwight Eisenhower changed Armistice Day to Veteran’s Day in 1954, though it took decades to sort it out (On the 11th? On the Monday closest? What about the 27 states that already had…
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This Week in SEO (and the real world)
This Week in SEO (and the real world)
I promise this has some relevance to the rest of the piece, though I won’t vouch for exactly how much. Way back in 1976, Dustin Hoffman prepared for his iconic “is it safe” scene in Marathon Manwith Laurence Olivier by staying up for 72 hours. Apparently, Hoffman looked like hell on the set – unshaven, shaky, dozing off – so much so that Sir Laurence not only noticed, he felt compelled to ask…
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No, Virginia, There's No Such Thing as President's Day
No, Virginia, There’s No Such Thing as President’s Day
Yup, there’s no such holiday as President’s Day – at least officially. It’s just Congress’ way of making Washington’s birthday fit a three day weekend.(Really – see Section 6103(a) of Title 5 of the United States Code).
Washington’s birthday was a major holiday in the U.S. long before the Civil War, it was formalized as a Federal holiday in the 1880’s, it took an act of Congress in the late…
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The Eleventh Minute Perhaps if we take a moment to remember that today is Veterans-Armistice-Remembrance Day and that at eleven past eleven this morning, 1918 The War to End All Wars ended; and then take another moment to read
A Letter to Gettysburg ...
A Letter to Gettysburg …
Dear Judge Harvey:
Unlike certain other visitors to your town, I know when to give up.
I paid for my parking space for the date in question, as the enclosed receipt clearly shows. I was in town so my son could visit Gettysburg College, we stayed at the Gettysburg Hotel. I paid for parking late in the evening, the ticket says it was good for 24 hours, I retrieved the car just over 12 hours after…
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The Bert Bell Bowl and the VP Debate
The Bert Bell Bowl and the VP Debate
One of the seminal books of my child hood – right up to 1971 and Ball Four– was Jerry Kramer’s Instant Replay. Jerry Kramer was an all-star guard on the great Green Bay Packer teams of the ’60’s. On the many occasions that golden-boy Paul Hornung was injured or suspended for gambling, Kramer also kicked field goals.
Kramer played every season of Vince Lombardi’s run with the Packers. He wrote Ins…
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Just In . . .
Just In . . .
The Trump campaign announced that hot on the heels of Jerry Falwell’s endorsement in today’s Washington Post (favorably comparing Donald J. Trump with Winston Churchill) comes another major endorsement: Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr.
The DVD movie mogul released a statement this morning reading, in part: “This country is on the precipice of an enormous crossroads . . . we are, as a nation, in a…
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Faulkner and Running ...
Faulkner and Running …
Went for a run this morning in Faulkner country – Oxford, Mississippi, home of Ole Miss. My daughter directed me to a rail trail behind campus … I hit it at 7:45 am, already 83 out with humidity at 70%, no breeze, not a cloud in the sky. Some observations:
Mississippi is hot.
No matter which way you go on a rail trail run it always looks like it’s uphill. This was no different, I was cursing my…
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Too Long A Sacrifice ...
Too Long A Sacrifice …
One hundred years ago today one of the most ill-considered, worse-executed rebellions in history began. Dublin, Easter 1916, while over 35,000 Irishmen were dying fighting for Britain on the Western Front and Gallipoli, a group of Irishmen, some veterans of that fighting, took over the Post Office and other key buildings in Dublin, ostensibly waiting for the populace to rise up and join them.They…
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“People Like Stories ...”
“People Like Stories …”
It was finally said. I had been waiting and waiting and finally, eight and a half hours into The People v. OJ Simpson, someone said it. The thing I had been saying for the previous eight weeks, the – to me – one, clear, overriding, theme of the trial.
Something I had gleefully relayed to my clients, over and over again – um, this might be a good time to apologize, so, ah, sorry – was finally said…
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An Open Note to Benin et. al.
An Open Note to Benin et. al.
February 10, 2016
Dear Benin/Diplomat/Secretaries of States/United Bank of Africa Couriers/UN Ambassadors/Mrs. Michelle Obama/Various and Sundry Agents of the FBI and Interpol:
Thank you for your many, many ‘Urgent’ notices concerning the stolen/lost by courier/won lottery/long time owed by parties unclear/funds totaling $7.5/2.7/22(!)/4.3 million to me and kindly being held by the Benin…
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Of Datsuns, Central Falls, Ziggy, and the Thin White Duke
Of Datsuns, Central Falls, Ziggy, and the Thin White Duke
Providence Rhode Island, late December, 1975, school’s on break but I’m stuck working at the Marriott hotel. I’m working the ballrooms, we set up mid-afternoon, keep the bars stocked through a million Christmas parties back in the day when office Christmas parties were parties, tend some bar, bus tables, break down.
A typical Providence winter day.
It’s s blur, we’re putting in 18 hour days,…
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Garlic, Tolstoy, Mike Tyson, and Prison Exits
Garlic, Tolstoy, Mike Tyson, and Prison Exits
I was released from prison by court order. Immediate release. Immediate and prisons do not mix well. A universal fact of every prison I had passed through – they shut down, literally and metaphorically, when presented with anything out of the ordinary. A court order delivered at 2 pm was most certainly out of the ordinary. So it came to pass that despite being a free man for over three hours, I…
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The Eleventh Minute of the ... Have You Forgotten Yet?
The Eleventh Minute of the … Have You Forgotten Yet?
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William Hanlin needs help . . . okay, William’s obviously pretty self-reliant and the mysterious J.A.W. is long dead but, well, his story needs a little help getting out there. As some of you know, I’ve spent a lot of time since July putting together a narrative non-fiction book proposal with several sample chapters.
That’s out there – all 86 pages of it – with a literary agent out of New…
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Another Saturday Run and Tainted Love
Another Saturday Run and Tainted Love
Ten mile run way out in railroad trail boonies, musical decisions and wild thoughts:
That’s it, I’ve had it, I’ve been wondering this for 40 some odd years and I’m no closer today than way back when – what was he was doing with Julio down by the schoolyard and why was everyone so upset? I don’t get an answer to this it’s off the list because absent it I don’t really need all the images my…
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Musical Notes From a Long Saturday Run Getting ready for a half marathon in October and went out on 9 mile run this morning on the Farmington Canal Bike Trail ...