48 years ago I graduated from high school. Three days later we got in our 1965 Buick Special and headed west across the country to Los Angeles, where we’d put the car on a barge to be shipped five thousand miles to Guam. That was Dad’s newest Navy duty station. We took two or three …
If you’re going to razz a group of pro golfers during a practice round you might get called on it. Then you have to perform. The guy in the red shirt was heckling European Ryder Cup golfers Rory McIlroy, Andy Sullivan and Henrik Stenson as they shot a practice round at the Hazeltine course in …
Read this Rolling Stone article about Trump’s performance last night and admire this paragraph. Jeb Lund explains how Trump got through the Republican primaries: Trump cut through over a dozen Republican candidates like an industrial saw shredding a box of Kleenex, and it couldn’t have happened to a more dismal gallery of frauds. After years …
That’s what any Hollywood producer would say if you presented him or her with a script that matched the plot of the Dodgers’ last home game this season, played today in Los Angeles. First: it was the last home game the team’s beloved broadcaster is ever going to call. After 67 years of doing play-by-play …
A long-time bloggy friend of mine posted a link to this song on Facebook the other day. I had never heard of the artist. Now that I have I’m hunting up Vienna Tang’s albums.
They seem to have undergone a divorce. After his high-minded refusal to endorse Trump at the Republican convention (“Vote your Conscience!”) he came out today and endorsed Trump after all. This despite making a lot of pithy (and true) observations about Trump earlier in the year: It all culminated in a blistering press conference in …
I’ve bought the tickets, reserved the hotel room, and all I have to do now is get a rental car lined up. 4,826 miles from HNL to DCA. That’s a long trip. Even broken up into two sections, it’s five hours and change a pop. It’s been a long while since I’ve done that. I …
The thing I wonder is did each one of those 5,300 low-level employees who got fired for this fraud spontaneously decide on the same day that they would all begin cross-selling and opening new accounts for customers without asking said customers if they wanted them? That would be one hell of an odd coincidence, don’t …
I plan to arrive Thursday evening at my hotel, rent a car Friday morning, and head for Annandale just to see what it looks like. I haven’t been there since my family left three days after graduation in 1968. I have to go see our old neighborhood and house. I’m tempted to drive out Braddock …
The forecast for DC in mid-October is mostly sunny but no higher than about 65 degrees F during the day, and down to the low 50s at night. Since the events we have planned are in the evening, I’m going to die of exposure.