Friday, June 20, 2008

A heartfelt apology to Cubs fans.

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A few posts ago, I expressed the hope (having lost faith in this year's model of my beloved Mets) that this might be the year you would...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A survivor on the Lakes

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Edna G was the last steam powered tug in use on the Great Lakes. She was retired from service some twenty years ago, but remains tied to t...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Probably the last commentary on the firing of Willie Randolph.

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I went to Google Images to find the perfect Willie photo for this post and, in wonderful serendipity, found it on a most unusual and fascina...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

Nippon Maru: Japan comes to Brooklyn.

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Brooklyn was part of the round-the-world itinerary for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines' 21,903 GRT cruise ship Nippon Maru, shown here docked at Re...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

A baseball diatribe wherein, sadly, I will offend several friends.

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I'm sick and tired of the 2008 Mets. And I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. I wouldn't feel this way if they'd h...
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Monday, June 09, 2008

Fuller's ESB, with a short discourse on the history of malt liquor.

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This is yet another post inspired by Twiffer , who, in commenting on my post about Alice Feiring and anti-Parkerism, bemoaned the unavailab...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Walking the Bridge.

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I've made it a habit, more mornings than not, to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, do a lap around the City Hall Park Fountain, and walk ba...

Clinton concedes; Collins comments cogently.

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Gail Collins has a valedictory for Hillary's campaign on today's New York Times op-ed page. After quoting some despairing remark...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Gotta read this.

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Twiffer on elitism . I've been cogitating about a post on the same topic. It may yet happen. (I know, "Promises, promises... ....
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So sad that it's come to this.

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As we anticipate the passing of this kidney stone of a Democratic primary campaign, Rumproast dubs HRC "Sen. Veruca Rodham Salt"....
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Goodbye to a legend.

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I'd like to think that Buddy, the Bopper and Richie (not to mention the King, Eddie and good ol' Roy) were tuning up, getting read...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Alice in Wine Blog Land

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A while back, someone offered me a taste of a California cabernet sauvignon. My impression was of a suspension of Woo-Woo-Welch's grape...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Auf wiedersehen, Franz

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...I have been concerned with...the way the dynamics and iconography of the Great War have proved crucial political, rhetorical, and artisti...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

From my window this afternoon.

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The sound of an idling diesel engine brought me to the window, where I saw a busload of blondes in hot pink dresses competing to be the next...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Remembering Korea

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Nobody wanted to call it a war, except those who fought in it. It could have been over soon after it began, thanks to General Douglas MacAr...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Is Obama "too intelligent" to be President?

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In an op-ed in Thursday's New York Times, Nathan Thrall and Jesse James Wilkins chided Obama for quoting from JFK's inaugural addr...
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Quote of the day.

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Barack Obama has become the Prince Caspian of the iPhone hordes. --David Brooks, "The Alpha Geeks" , New York Times, May 23, 2008...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

La plus ça change, ...

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... la plus c’est la même chose . (A tip o' the hat to Instaputz .)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Feh!

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In my last Mets post , I wrote: "Just don't backslide." Being the Mets, of course they did . Update: The humiliation is compl...

So, just what is art, anyway?

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In Little Murders (1971), directed by Alan Arkin, with screenplay by Jules Feiffer , Elliott Gould (seen at left, in stained white suit) p...
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Leon Kass wants you to drop that ice cream cone, NOW!

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As a member, and former chairman, of the President's Council on Bioethics, Leon Kass has played an important role in determining the Bu...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Chicken soup for the Mets fan's soul.

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Two decisive wins over the Yanks, the latest featuring the so far wildly inconsistent Oliver Perez over the redoubtable Chien-Ming Wang by ...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Music for one apartment and six drummers.

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Do try this at home.

Can it get any worse than this?

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The Mets have lost three of four to the worst team in their division, and in the final game of the series were unable to score a run agains...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Wedding scene from Little Murders

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This probably is as comprehensive a summary of what y'all in God-fearing Red State America think about us anomic coastal elites as has...

Oh. My. God.

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I need this like I need another Republican administration. That, and having Lastings Milledge support the "curse of the ex-Met" ...
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Friday, May 09, 2008

Strange are the ways of Google

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My Sitemeter tells me that the fifteen thousandth visit to S-AB was from New Delhi, and came to the blog via a Google search for "play ...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Cicely Nichols, 1937-2008

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I can't remember when I first met her, except that it was some time in the late 1970s. I'm sure of where, though; the bar of the Li...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008

iPod Log 3 -- Xenophilia Edition

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My iPod music library includes songs in eleven languages other than English.* The other morning, the iPod went on a xenophiliac binge, play...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

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Dear IOZ, Quel horreur! I cannot bear the thought of another day without your bracing negativity. Ever thine, Sexually backward patriarch. ...