Archive For September 30, 2017
My mind is for sale, but not my time. My time is finite. Unfortunately nobody is buying. Television made me a cowboy. Got the horse, got the gun, got the hat. Even got a girl and a place to bed down. Except robbers and men who chase them, never much learned how to get money. …
What Republicans renamed the ‘death tax,’ is really the millionaire’s inheritance tax, affecting only 0.2% of the population. Yet they’ve convinced working-class voters to cut it. by Jay Michaelson Here’s a contradiction for you: The estate tax affects only 0.2 percent of American families—the wealthiest one-fifth of 1 percent of the population, yet 54 percent…
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common. – HST I have been overwhelmed by massive response to my sheepish confession that my lifelong passion for the…
Life is too short to be living someone else’s dream – Hugh M. Hefner My time with Playboy magazine started early. But mostly spent alone in my room. The first exposure occurred when I was maybe ten years old. Before the Interstate, up and over Bear Mountain, ferry at Port Jervis across the Hudson River,…
The first day of Fall. First dawn under seventy degrees since March. Almost feels chilly. Cooler temperatures, sunny skies, blue and clear, hurricanes headed another direction. Life is good. The old man missed running a couple of days during Irma. Nothing like no sleep and not a little fear and no power and no electricity…
Watching the kerfuffle – covfefe perhaps – over professional football players kneeling during the musical idolatry of our nation’s flag, I thought about the campaign against rap music lyrics. As Janis Joplin liked to say, it’s all the same thing, man. – JDW A writer and library series organizer examines a book banning By Kit-Bacon…
What follows are apparently notes for a class re creating the short story. Never took such a class, so must be I was promoting a certain philosophy of feral writing. Oh! Oh! Wait. I got it. Trying to be an autodidact. I don’t teach, I share. – JDW “Nothing is more precise than fiction.” –…
Try to be a man. Life is not all vaginas and vodka tonics. Come to the rescue. Crying babies to be saved. And tears to be dried.
Great lady. Great athlete. Estimable human being. An excerpt from critically acclaimed, non-bestselling When Running Was Young And So Were We. Available on Amazon and most surviving bookstores. Track & Field News, early 1988. – JDW Lynn Jennings seems to be a runner of the old school. I don’t mean Princeton, from which she graduated in…
I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. – J. B. Books JDW: The skilled professional interviewer doubtlessly would be well prepared with myriad questions but I have no idea where to start with…