Hot Dogs! Get Your Hot Dogs Here!
So maybe the vendors aren't working their ways around the stands much anymore, but there still is the "All-American" Frankfurter to savor in a park, on the street, at a counter or booth. So on the list of 15 here,…
“Well Now, I’ve Seen Everything”
Not Really But a Walk-Off, Two-Run Error and THE Trophy from That Championship Year Doesn't Happen Every Day!!!!! I Love Milwaukee Fielders!!!! [Brewers on Defense Gave 'Us' the Game and a Championship] With friends Larry and Jacki Moffi, Lillian and…
The Public’s Unobstructed View of the Manse in High Summer
The black-eyed susans, ravaged by Bambi's friends and family in the past, are welcoming the summer's heat. We can't forget the crepe myrtle, often quiet because it's off to the sloping downside of the full estate.
All Aboard — A Drag Show; Some Like It Hot — 1959 Billy Wilder Style
So last night as the Canadian wildfires momentarily took a smoke abatement break over the Manse, we invited Messrs Lemon and Curtis to perform with Ms. Monroe for a little less than two hours. No, we wanted Drag perfection --…
An Enjoyable Afternoon with Old Friends
So it was off to Downtown Baltimore from the Far Reaches of Fairfax Saturday to take in the Jim Henson and the Muppets exhibit at the Maryland Center for History and Culture [aka Maryland Historical Society. Greeting us was Kermit,…
Soon there will be “no there there.”
Class Portrait: Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Rollie Fingers, Jim Hunter The best foul territory for pitchers probably in baseball history. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/sports/baseball/oakland-las-vegas-athletics.html Gone, the California Golden Seals [NHL} Gone, the Oakland Oaks [ABA] Gone, the Oakland Raiders [NFL, twice] Gone, the…
Two T’s in a Pod
Teixeira and Trump—'One Set of Laws for Everyone’ [Maybe not, Jack could also be charged under Uniform Code of Military Justice] The Bond that Binds – Handling Top Secret Classified Material Age Comparisons: 21 vs 76 Rank: Airman First Class,…
The Limits of Biography
The Limits on Writing a Biography [Authors Q & A with Jonathan Eig] New York Times Book Review, May 28, 2023 How cognizant did you need to be of your own perspective, as a white man, in approaching a figure like…
Mayan Superhighways
Ever since the plague descended on the manse in the Far Reaches of Fairfax [as well as the rest of the globe], I've noticed great changes in patterns of travel, even now more local during the week during most waking…
Outsize Battles in Obscure Places: Iwo-Jima –Gettysburg — Bakhmut
"(T)he end of the battle no matter the stakes or victor is always the same: unfathomable loss, and a reckoning of what comes next." Thomas Gibbons-Neff -- New York Times, May 23, 2023 Why Bakhmut? It’s a Question Older Than…