I found this old photo from a trip to Moscow. I think that’s kavin photo bombing it… This morning when I signed on to write today’s post, I had 52 Comments from my cyber-stalker. Somehow a spam-like thingy has attached itself to my blog and every day I get a batch of annoyances that look […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
I hate to be like a dog with a sock, but I can’t seem to shake the fact that one in three drowning incidents are alcohol related. I mentioned this statistic in the blog post on Saturday, and now I can’t get it out of my mind. It’s the symbolism, the poetry of the concept that’s haunting […]
Jacksonville Beach this morning… Reading scholarly statistics about something as unmindful as excessive drinking can be amusing. First of all, excessive drinking is defined as 5 drinks for men and 4 drinks for women per day. Need I mention my previous, three-bottle-of-wine-a-day habit would translate into 15 drinks a day? I’m the statistical equivalent […]
“Eve” by Altay Sadigzade Made you look. How do I put this delicately? When I was a drinker, I occasionally ended up in what might be called a compromising position. The best way to describe it is a fugue state: I didn’t black out exactly, but I’d find myself half dressed, or in an unfamiliar location, or with an unlikely man wondering how […]
Hi. This is a test. I did not fly back to The Bahamas out of frustration. Soon all will be well… Today I’m not drinking because… actually I can’t think of a good reason… How come you’re not drinking?
OR IS BLOGGING, WRITING? F Scott Fitzgerald said, “You’ve got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner.” Isn’t that the essence of blogging? Telling the minor things, the dinner story things with photos that fit neatly […]
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Either way, I’m not paying the ransom. I was speaking with Lisa yesterday. She told me that dognapping is on the rise. Her son’s two French Bulldogs were stolen from his yard a month ago and the culprits sent a ransom note demanding $1,500. It was neatly typed, enclosing a SSAE and an affidavit renouncing any claim to further action. […]
I made that up. But I do want to know who concocts these faux holidays and gets them onto the omniscient National Day Calendar. For example, today is National Restless Leg Syndrome Awareness Day. I’m looking forward to the festivities. Last week Laura sent me an email while doing important, life saving work at a major hospital: Arrrggghhh! […]
FAO Schwartz – a Rockets Barbie – A three wine lunch – I must be in NYC… There has been a lot of negative press about Barbie’s proportions. If she were real, she’d apparently have to crawl on all fours like some exotic borzoi because her frame is too narrow, her feet too small and her […]
I went to the movies with Dee last night. Afterwards, we were sitting in the parking lot of Walgreens trying to get a bead on the wait time at Taco Lu. Every once in a while I long for the Yellow Pages (in the same way I occasionally pine for those stick hard candies with the […]