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MARCH 5, 2009 5:15PM

Where are the Rich Hiding ?



Another cold front’s uncurling across Florida and blowing hard; it’s licking up waves on the bay the size of manila envelopes and ripping open their papery tops. Same old shit.  I cursed the ugly sight out-loud and returned back inside my condo, pulling the sliding glass do

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009 4:15PM

REBUTTAL: OS Cover Story- If it Bleeds it Leads

 From Del Stone's "For me to have a good day....somebody must die.

" I work for a newspaper website and our visitors want death. Scandal, tragedy or perversion will do in a pinch but death is always the killer app for a multimedia information salesman."

 


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FEBRUARY 18, 2009 9:34AM

The Rich: Struggling in Naples


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"Come on,  hop in."  I was being invited to ride alond with Senior PGA "rookie" and longtime PGA touring pro, Dan Forsman and his playing partner 2-time Masters champion Bernard Langer for an afternoon "inside the ropes" at this week's ACE Group Classic in Naples, Flo… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 14, 2009 7:27PM

Obama Report: Final Chapter

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Mercifully, my interview on the Channel 4 News at Noon! was muted on the small flat screen television hanging behind the lunch counter.  I’d dragged in maybe five minutes when it came on.  I gave the waitress a very tired looking smile and I’d ordered a burger,/

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009 10:02PM

Obama Report: Dangerous Tickets

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A few seconds ago, the Gulf swallowed the sun. Now everywhere along the sidewalks and crawling up the building facades, sharp, black shadows are out marking their territory. But thing's are moving fast, the planet's gliding that short, snapping arc of wintertime

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009 5:22PM

Obama Report: Fort Meyers, End of the Road

 
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I'd been heading south on I-75 for almost two hours when I lifted onto the shallow arch of the Peace Bridge and was now flying over the Caloosahatchee River.  Fort Myers, Florida.  Dead ahead.

As pretty of an evening as you could ask for.  The

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009 8:07PM

Picture: Barak in his Happy Place

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Barak in his Happy Place.  

I got close enough to see he was wearing a micro-wirless ear piece.

The next revolution for iPod.    Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009 7:30PM

Troll at the Podium


I have no real explanation for this.  But the troll made it to the podium at Obama's Town Hall meeting.  I was far across the room,  saw the hair,  turned and fired a shot.  Then the troll was gone.
 
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FEBRUARY 11, 2009 8:28AM

Personal Pictures: Looking into the Eyes of Obama

 
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Sercret Service w atching for the President in Florida. 
 
 
Roy Hobbs attended  The Town Hall Meeting in  Fort Myers yesterday.  For 90 minutes I squatted alone my camera, at times  almost  with-in arms reach of the President,  as he… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 7, 2009 9:16AM

Start Your Day with Some Cool Pictures?

Sometimes people ask about the camera.  What they're usually thinking is, " this thing of mine would never take a picture like that."   But in fact, while I use a decent camera,  it's certainly no where near the exceptional standards you can find now for around 600 bucks.  I use… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009 9:36PM

Finding Salvation at Denny's

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 I can usually  figure things out.  But sometimes a thorny conundrum plants itself at my feet and remains there unmovable - inspite of my analytical efforts.  

So, when that happens,   I decide that either the question is so chaotically random - as in b… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 25, 2008 9:48PM

Lying Down with Dogs

 
 
I noticed , tonight,
 
that after the scraps of Christmas paper  
 
and  the last crunchy, artificial Frankincense
 
that  had fallen from the tree
 
was  cleaned  up from  the rug;

 my Golden Retriever came near me … Read full post »
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DECEMBER 20, 2008 7:03PM

Dropping the Hammer on Tony Snow


As I was scrolling through the 2008 Obituaries (of the famous and near famous),  I was reminded again that Fox News Reporter turned White House spokesman Tony Snow had died earlier this year from brain cancer. And, again, I was reminded how I’d felt when Mr. Snow died. 

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DECEMBER 18, 2008 5:31PM

How Much is Caylee's Dead Body Worth?(UPDATE)

Dec 19. UPDATE

Who didn't see this coming.  

CAYLEE ANTHONY'S REMAINS OFFER FEW CLUES 

 

Maybe if they would have spent more money? 

 

Whoa, stand back.  It's going to get rough,  the squeamish might want to avert their eye's. 

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DECEMBER 18, 2008 11:41AM

A Question for Hunter S. Thompson

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For the past couple of days,  a heavy, scented Caribbean mass of air has been climbing north and raking itself over Cuba;  bringing with it the earthy, soft scents that - you'd recognize if you've been to that place - wreak of sadness.
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DECEMBER 16, 2008 3:17PM

Riding Dinosaurs with Jesus-Yehaw!


 
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(Christain Coloring Book)

 

I not going into a whole big thing here,  I just can't. 

 First of all,  because after only a few minutes into researching the subject,  I spotaneously grabbed a salad fork and plunged it into the meat of my thigh.  … Read full post »

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DECEMBER 16, 2008 12:20PM

Please. Could You PleaseStop Believing, Please?



What I like to blog about is the madcap hilarity of watching “the smartest men in the room” getting jack knifed for billions by Barnard Madoff.  

Can’t you just see them wandering dazed through the deserted halls of their Palm Beach or Long Island mansions in soiled
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DECEMBER 14, 2008 4:04PM

The Day the Aliens Come

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With two seemingly unrelated events so perfectly aligning,  I am no longer embarrassed to admit a Fear has bored slowly within my ear like a weevil, finally punching through - piercing the dark meat of my brain:  

It is  - The… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 12, 2008 2:25PM

The Wonderful (and easy) World of HDR Pictures.

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The Wonderful (and easy) World of HDR Pictures. 

There was time, when "getting into photography" meant hundreds of dollars in investment in equipment;  and many additional hundreds of dollars buying and developing film.  Not to mention..... you actually had to study and l… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008 11:18AM

Anything Can Happen (Apologies Maureen Dowd)

      

My friend Dickie Thorn and I  don't meet for coffee at Starbucks anymore.  We carry our new "Big Cups" across the street to the corner Stop-n-Rob and self-service oursleves;  now for 79 cents.  We are doing more of that lately -  self-servicing ours… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 23, 2008 7:52PM

Who Listens to Drunk?


 

After dinner, I stepped out to the patio with my wine glass and settled into an Adirondack chair.  Annie had painted it with blotches orange and red hibiscus and creeping honey vine. A few streets over out in the darkness, two of Hemmingway’s cats were yowling and
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NOVEMBER 23, 2008 8:29AM

Butterflys, Grapes and Some Flowers.


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 Bet ya thought with  title like that some evocative prose would be waiting.....nope, sorry.  Just Butterflys, Grapes and Some Flowers.  That's it.
 
The lanscape is falling dreary with the season.......thought itwould be nice to remember a walk on summer's da… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 22, 2008 3:44PM

Tattoo You


To the most viciously  tattooed,  all I have is a sort of  ambiguous pity.  Like I reserve for  mangled survivors of “freak” accidents.  Those odd, self-inflicted injuries they describe as “freak”,  but  whose result was never in hones
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NOVEMBER 21, 2008 9:45AM

The Girl with the Mona Lisa Smile

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Yeah,  I'm that guy always with the camera.  Often found contorted around a tree branch angling for perfect lighting on moss. (I have a folder named, "Moss, Fungus, Lichen. No...really)
  
I found this young girl sitting one some steps last month. (Yes, I met… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 20, 2008 6:13PM

Handful of Stones

 
 
My friend Davey Arliss pitched for his baseball team,  so the bare fact he couldn’t  link more than a few lusterless hops across the water - even with a proper skipping rock - was a mystery.
 
 I can still see him at the water’s edge in muddy high-tops.… Read full post »
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