Self-Absorbed Boomer

"[A] delightfully named blog", (Sewell Chan, New York Times). "[R]elentlessly eclectic", (Gary, Iowa City). Taxing your attention span since 2005.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

DUMBO Saturday morning.

DUMBO is an acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass." It's a section of Brooklyn lying next to the East River, ...

Friday, September 28, 2007

The bitter and the sweet: Mets are done; USF Bulls prevail.

Mets blow it . Stick a fork in 'em, they're done. For the remainder of this season, and post-season, I have my choice of rooting f...

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

I often disagree with Mike Celizic, ...

... but this time I want him to be right .

Visibility limited.

A few mornings ago, heavy fog covered the harbor as this Coast Guard buoy tender lay off the southern tip of Manhattan. The photo was taken...

Whither the South Florida Bulls?

Joey Johnston says they're the real deal , but John Tamanaha plays it safe and predicts a West Virginia victory Friday night.

Monday, September 24, 2007

I've been messin' with the blog.

I decided a long time ago that the links on the right-hand column of the blog had gotten to be a problem. Some were links to outdated URLs,...

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Bulls advance; Gators slip

People keep hitting my blog from web searches for the latest AP college football top 25, so I'd better put the link up now . There you ...

Friday, September 21, 2007

Baseball whine time.

At last I've found someone who's as much of a fusspot Mets fan, and pathological Yankee hater, as I am. It's gratifying to see...

Shame and scandal in sweet New England

So far I've resisted commenting on Belichikgate ( someone besides me must have called it that, I trust); its only effect on me being my...

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Sex Pistols redux.

Brixton's the place to party like it's 1977 this November 8th.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Jaguar E type

When I was in my senior year of high school, the E type (or XK-E, as it was commonly known) was big news. Although first made in 1961, it h...

The. Worst. Baseball. Weekend. Ever.

First, my beloved Brooklyn Cyclones, having breezed past their archrivals, the Staten Island Yankees, in the semifinals, once again came a c...

Sunday, September 16, 2007

College football update: Bulls in top 25; Gators roll.

The South Florida Bulls, despite having an off week and despite their last week's upset victim, Auburn, being upset a second time by per...

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Saturday morning, September 15, 2007

Sunday, September 09, 2007

It's official: USF football is big-time.

Her (rubbing eyes): Why so late last night? Me (after a yawn and stretch): Big game. My alma mater beat Auburn with a TD in overtime. He...

Friday, September 07, 2007

S-AB enters the terrible twos.

I missed it: this blog had its second birthday on August 30th. My only excuse for failing to commemorate this as I did last year is that I...

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

College football kickoff

No real surprises the first weekend of play, except for the One Big Surprise . In Monday's New York Times, Viv Bernstein had a front...

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Mets sweep Braves!

Yes, I know: Thursday night I could've posted, "Mets lose four straight to Phils." This year's Mets seem to have a kinshi...

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Hilly Kristal, 1932-2007.

Last year I posted about the perhaps temporary demise of the famous new wave rock venue CBGB & OMFUG. At the time, I noted, there was ...

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

The economics of lobster rolls.

Matthew Yglesias presents this gem in the Atlantic (be sure to scroll down through the comments, too, for discussion of such worthy topics...

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Studebaker GT Hawk

The GT Hawk was a European style grand touring car made in South Bend, Indiana. Designer Brooks Stevens borrowed extensively from other mak...

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Erie Canal delineated!

If you survived elementary school music, you can probably remember the line: From Al-ba-nee to Buf-fa-lo-oh (If you need your memory refresh...

Monday, August 20, 2007

Red Hook revisited, and the Really Big Art Show.

Yesterday my wife, our friend Barbara and I drove to Red Hook to help another friend, the artist Kei Andersen, remove and take home her two...

Thursday, August 16, 2007

O Florida, venereal soil.*

Every time I think my former home state has done its utmost in the way of legal lunacy, something happens to confound me further. The lates...

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

It's a boy!

Hearty congratulations to Twiff and Persephone.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Phil Rizzuto, 1917-2007

Anyone who has read my blog for a while knows that I loathe, hate and despise the New York Yankees. However, this doesn't necessarily t...

Sunday, August 12, 2007

The tragedy of Fred Exley.

I'm writing this in Massena , which Exley, in Pages From a Cold Island (the subject of my earlier post ), called "a far northern a...

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

No words, just pix.*

*With a tip o' the hat to Hugh Crawford .

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Taking a break.

I'll be away for a few days in a computer-free zone, so I'll defer those projects I've promised to work on (more on Exley; Seco...

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Castillo to Mets?

Gotta like the deal for the strength it adds to defense up the middle, and the DP combo with Reyes. Offensively, Castillo looks like less o...

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About Me

: I was born in 1946 in a city renowned in Vaudeville humor, Altoona Pennsylvania. My dad was in the military, so we moved many times in my childhood. We lived in rural England from the time I was five until I was eight, and I began my formal education in a county council school, where my being American is likely all that saved me from having my bottom caned. When I was eleven my father retired from the Air Force, and we settled in Tampa. I graduated from the University of South Florida (1967) and Harvard Law School (1970). Since then, apart from two years' active Army duty, I have lived in New York City; and have lived in the Borough of Brooklyn since 1983. In 1991 I married Martha Foley, an historian and archivist. We are proud of our daughter, Elizabeth, and our granddaughter, Ada, who also live in Brooklyn.

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