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Another year, another resolution to break. The question is do you get through 24 hours, or not so much? I am fifty-eight years old. I have been making resolutions since I was in college—or maybe even since high school; I can’t really remember. The truth is, I have never successfully kept a resolution in the forty-odd years I have been making them. Each year, however, I am confident when I head off to bed on the 31st (I rarely make it ...read more Holiday gatherings usually allow participants a minute or two to indulge in nostalgia for days gone by. For me and mine, this year was no exception. Over and over again, the topic of meatloaf came up. I’ve recently had a lot of dinners out, and it seems that meatloaf has returned to menus, allowing for this trip down Memory Lane. Okay, you food snobs, the conversation did not take place at Le Bernadin, but at some local joint where you ...read more It’s Best of time again, and here are my best of choices from this past year. Best Song No question on this one. Someone Like You by Adele. With lyrics like regrets and mistakes, they are memories made, there is nothing more to be said. The only issue with this song is that they are playing it too much. They did that to Celine Dion’s song for Titanic and I wanted to shoot myself every time it came on the radio. Chris Martin (the ...read more I wasn’t even going to go. I saw the entire Dragon Tattoo trilogy in subtitled splendor last year, and frankly, I thought it was another example of American self-centeredness when I heard the film was being done in English as well. I hate that we Americans are too lazy to sit through subtitled films and require them to be done in English instead. But it looked interesting in the previews, and I didn’t review it in Danish, so I decided ...read more Well, hello Michelle Williams. Wow. Kudos to you for sure, for you are totally mesmerizing as Marilyn Monroe—or frankly, as anyone at all. No one can take their eyes off you when you are on the screen. You are more bewitching than Marilyn was by many percentage points. My Week with Marilyn is a must-see. It’s a one-week snippet of Marilyn’s life, and it shows us her genius at manipulation and her vulnerability as a woman whose soul others can’t see through ...read more So, you all remember my friends Victor and Cathryn, who live in the now-distant land of Los Angeles. Cathryn and I are best friends from long, long ago in the seventies, when we lived together in an apartment whose living room we painted Grecian Rose, which made it very Bordello-like, and we thought we were awesome. She is my cheap friend who brings fine maple syrup into IHOP, which she introduced me to when I first landed in La-La Land ...read more So, when I woke up this morning and saw that Syracuse University’s basketball coach and assistant coach seem to have the same issues that we just heard about with Penn State’s Paterno and company, I felt this gnawing feeling in the back of my mind. Then I started to think about the internal workings of the Catholic Church, which allowed (and still allow, in my humble opinion) the institution of a pedophile’s version of Girls Gone Wild. Then I put ...read more I was never bothered by guilt over all the turkeys we put to death each Thanksgiving—a holiday that, as my cousin Gary pointed out to me over dinner last night, commemorates how our ancestors came here, stole food from the Indians, learned from them how to live off the land, and then slaughtered them like pigs. He said it just that way, too. Harsh. But this year, I’m having a bit of difficulty with the turkey thing. First of all, there was ...read more I was at lunch with some friends today, and one of them said she had been offered a job in Texas. “You can’t take a job in Texas,” I said firmly. “Why not?” “Because it’s a lawless country. Didn’t you see The Thin Blue Line?” The Thin Blue Line, for those of you who don’t go back as far as 1988, was a documentary film that terrified me and the rest of America. It showed a man wrongly convicted of a murder in Dallas ...read more I have to move. I have come to realize over the past few years that you must surround yourself with people who elevate you, who make you feel good about yourself, your accomplishments, and your potential. This doesn’t mean you should never be challenged by friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who may outshine you; but the distance between you cannot be akin to the miles between the sun and the moon. But I’ll come to the point: Here is a picture of ...read more |
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