I met Janice the night she came to my house at 3 o'clock in the morning, tripping on Exstacy with some friends of mine. It was hot in Memphis and I had a swimming pool.

Not one to miss a party, I let the five of them in through/… Read full post »

I feel we live in one of the most beautiful cities on earth and I'm grateful to be able to enjoy these views from our home. I just wish they weren't so expensive.

 View from the window in the upstairs loft.

 View from the porch, looking east… Read full post »

Barack Obama may or may not be ready to be the President of the United States. It says here we'll find out come January 2009. Given the steaming piles of FUBAR he'll be inheriting from the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, his first order of business will involve… Read full post »

In the spirit of propagating the meme inspired yesterday by Daily Sally, but with a keen eye toward the blogosphere’s propensity to elicit too much information, I offer 10 things you might not know.

1. I am/
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Some readers may have seen this, it's making the Internet rounds. I thought it would make a nice image uploading exercise for me here and add a little grist for the mill, as it were...

WORLD GAS PRICES
Quoted in US dollars per gallon for regular unleaded, March 1, 2008.


Oslo,/… Read full post »

Though it got little notice at the time, I put up a post entitled Quit Yer Bitchin' over two weeks ago on the topic of high gas prices in the US.

When the current occupant's father took us to war over oil in Iraq the first time, I made… Read full post »

I took my first trip when I was a week old, bundled in a wicker hamper nestled on a seat between the people I came to know as my parents, who adopted me in Monticello, NY and flew with me immediately to their home in Memphis, Tenn. Some forty-eight… Read full post »

I have been an avid spectator of and small-time participant in the markets for stocks, bonds and commodities since the mid-80s.

I lost a breathtaking amount of my father's risk capital in the market crash of 1987, betting greedily that the bottom was further down… Read full post »

Two articles in the news yesterday come at the issue from slightly differing tangents but go quite a ways toward illustrating just how close to 1984 we have come as a nation and as a society.

Sally Ann Gombocz will serve 6 to 23 months in a Pennsylvania prison, was fined/… Read full post »

From the Interconnect files...

Thirty years ago, former San Francisco advertising executive Jerry Mander published a treatise called Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, which many people of a certain age and turn of mind read, with absolutely no effect on the TV watching habits of the/… Read full post »

My mother came to America from Lithuania in the early 1950s as a young girl. Her younger sister, her parents, and her maternal grandparents made up the family that settled in Brooklyn, NY.

Her father, a well-known playwright and artist whose paintings hang today in the national gallery at Vilnius,… Read full post »

My mother was a smart, beautiful, Jewish gal from Avenue K in Brooklyn. She met my father in 1958 in Miami, when he had his personal assistant – in those days, called a house man – deliver a note to the stunning little brunette who lived across the/… Read full post »

I’m going to think out loud, if you don’t mind. I’ve been ruminating on something for a while now and I would like to indulge the openness and apparent civility of this forum to throw some very incompletely formed ideas against the wall to see what sticks. Maybe we’ll end… Read full post »

What would you say are the odds anyone from George W. Bush's administration will ever serve time for crimes committed in office?

Leave aside, of course, Elliot Abrams, who was convicted of Reagan-era mendacity in the Iran-Contra Affair, pardoned by G.H.W. Bush for his crimes in 1992, and has served/… Read full post »

ABC News reports Miley Cyrus, Disney's most recent pre-pubescent cash cow, is officially "embarrassed" by photographs set to appear in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, in which the 15 year-old star of Disney's hit TV show "Hannah Montana" appears clutching a satin sheet to her naked breast.

Framed i/… Read full post »

With every change in my son Lofton's life, it seems I, too, enter a new phase. My horizons are ever expanding and yet, with each new thing Lofton discovers I gain a way back to my own childhood and -- perhaps it's just my imagination -- a chance to get… Read full post »