Pirate Radio is a perfect example of why I don’t take critics’ comments at face value. The three reviews I read this morning were lukewarm with a small degree of trashing, but when I looked at the trailer, I knew it would be fun. Sure, the movie has its flaws–male humor; some sloppiness with chronological [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘humor’
November 15, 2009
Negative is the New Positive: Part I
I knew if I just hung on long enough, the world would eventually come round. After all these years of being abused and shamed for my so-called negativity, it’s suddenly becoming chic.
The first time I recall being chided for negativity was by a friend on a snowy mountain in Vermont during a high school senior [...]
November 7, 2009
Letterman Does Yankees
A few Dave Letterman jokes about you-know-who, taken from the MLB site:
“Long season, brutal season, 162 games, 40 or 50 playoff games, and then the best of 30 in the World Series. Finally, now, they get a well-deserved rest, and then on Monday they report to Spring Training.“
“The Yankees, your world champion Yankees, they have [...]
October 28, 2009
Baseball Posts on Dirty Laundry
Maybe I’m overly obsessive, but I feel compelled to write this note for the edification of my readers–so here goes.
Predictably, Dirty Laundry gets a lot of hits to the baseball topic at this time of year. From what I can tell, people go searching under players’ names–Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, etc.–and they’re led to my [...]
June 28, 2009
Cagney & the Dykes
I feel like the Dean of Students at freshman orientation. Every couple of years when I venture into SF Lesbian Nation, I’m older but the girls aren’t. The older ones have moved across the bridge and are busily raising babies, so I seldom run into anyone I know here. Today I did; Valerie’s a doctor [...]
June 13, 2009
Song for Mariano
It took me years, but I finally hit on a song dramatic enough for one of my favorite players. It should be sung almost operatically.
Mariano Rivera
(To the tune of “Maria”)
Mariano—
I just saw a pitcher named Mariano
And suddenly I see how wonderful a pitch
Can be.
Mariano—
I just saw a closer named
Mariano
And suddenly the game
will never ever be [...]
May 30, 2009
Halfway to the Stars
You can buy a copy of my novel, Halfway to the Stars, at Scribd, for a mere 5 bucks. I’m trying this out. If anyone else has used Scribd I’m interested in hearing your stories.
May 24, 2009
Slumming With the Poor: Welcome to My Universe
“The mantra is cut, cut, cut — magazine and cable subscriptions, credit cards, fancy coffee drinks and your own hair.”
So noted an article in the New York Times a few weeks ago, one of the endless stories about how Americans are “coping” with hard times. To immediately dispense with apologies and caveats, let me say [...]
April 24, 2009
Euphemism of the Year Award
I am hereby instituting an annual award for the best or most obvious or most full-of-shit Euphemism of the Year. It was inspired by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the first recipient. Speaking of whether or not to put on trial those responsible for the policy of torture at Abu Ghraib, Holder said:
“I [...]
December 8, 2008
The Great Potato Pancake Fry-Off
Since ’tis the season, I thought I’d reprise this perennial favorite.
According to my friend Rita, the invention of the blender spelled disaster for the potato latke. She insists that the blood dripping from our grandmother’s knuckles as they grated the potatoes is what made their latkes so delicious.
My friend Larry swears that skimping on oil [...]
