December 2010
16 posts
I know I posted this a year ago, but in the last...
Can I get a last self-promotional shot off before...
George Vecsey in tomorrow’s Times. Team effort.
Saturday February 5, 8 pm, NO COVER. I'm just...
Seasons Greetings and Happy Year 3 from Ablog the...
Please enjoy the University of Hawaii Rainbow...
No more calls, we have a winner for cuteness....
This from Adrianne’s good friend, Dr. Nora.
RIP: Bob Feller....
He was a phenom who became a war hero who became an accidental civil rights hero (Just read my buddy Tim Gay’s book on interracial barnstorming before Jackie Robinson, DIZZY, SATCH AND RAPID ROBERT) who became a one-man minor league promotional giveaway who would sign his name on your sister who became a bitter old man who eventually ran out of microphones and slips of paper. But he has to...
You know I never do this, but I'm doing it now....
Everyone needs to watch the Letterman show Friday night. Three segments with DeNiro and Hoffman. When they write the history of the show, they will write about this night.
This is my response to my brilliant Tumblr-mate...
My first visit to an Off Track Betting parlor occurred in June, 1979, three weeks after I had moved to Albany and begun working in the sports department at the Times-Uniion. One of my jobs on the night shift was to load in the results from Saratoga Harness when they came over the telecopier, the glacially slow predecessor of the fax machine. (If you want to see a tremendous demonstration of the...
Lindsay Robertson: RIP OTB →
lindsayrobertson:
Now that Off Track Betting is shut down, we’ll one day have to explain to our kids that particularly New York experience of walking down a perfectly normal street and stepping onto a block where suddenly everything is creepy and weird, where disheveled old white men congregate on the sidewalk in…
Wikileaks stays up, but Tumblr doesn't, so here...
My lead guitar player Joe Gagliardi and I went to the Beatles Brunch at BB Kings in Times Square Saturday. This is a racket they’ve been running for five years at the club. Four former members of “Beatlemania” are in a band called Strawberry Fields. They play two long sets. One 1964-67, one 1967-70. The food is meant for tourists and the guys do the bogus Liverpool accents...
Here is my Sunday NY Times review....
….of the new coffee table National Lampoon Anthology. Sadly, space concerns cost me my ID line and a plug for EVERYTHING HURTS. Ah, newspapers…..
In celebration of tonight's LeBron homecoming on...
…here is loyal commenter Ed Markey’s early 1990s poem, “Ode to Marv”
ODE TO MARV
A capacity crowd
Better than 19 thousand on hand
And this was the scene
Moments ago.
Let’s pick up the public address
Crowd reacting
Hearing it from the crowd
Yesss…and it counts!
Wild end to end sequence
With the numbers
With the step
With...
I am taking just long enough of a break from...
….Philip Roth’s latest, NEMESIS (I’m halfway through), to tell you that I need to leave the business. That good.
And because this is a full-service blog, I’ll do some link love here so you don’t have to put shoes on to get it. That’s NEMESIS. You don’t have to love polio to love this staggering book.