Archive For July 31, 2017
Stumbled across this story, deep in the archives. Had permission to use once some twenty-three years ago in the next Wild Dog. To my mind, jdw.com IS the next Wild Dog. Thank you, Ms. Heimel. Thank you, Playboy. – JDW WOMAN: BELIEVING IN DOG by Cynthia Heimel I’m thinking about getting myself an old guy. An…
Mary Decker and I used to live together. There, I confessed. Of course, she was at one end of the house, I was at the other, far end of the house. We ran together once. I am not over it. So, anyway, I sold my Elliptigo to somebody who needed it more. And then…
Passion is bullshit. Goals are for losers. You need simple systems that improve your odds. – Scott Adams. Follow the rubles. The world is not all they make it out to be. One thing leads to another. Get your head right. Write your head. Buy her flowers. Don’t breathe your own exhaust. You have to…
To create a work of art that the critic cannot even talk about ought to be the artist’s chief concern. – John Ashbery The old man dropped out of his own M.F.A. program (Creative Whatever), one credit short of graduation. Just his style. But he didn’t give up. No, not that. He decided to become…
“No, I don’t benefit. I don’t benefit. “In fact, very, very strongly, as you see, I think there’s very little benefit for people of wealth.” Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain Unfortunately, it’s no contest. Here’s what psychology tells us about life under a leader totally indifferent to the truth. By MARIA KONNIKOVA All presidents lie….
PHK is one strange creature, which makes him all the more wonderful. Used to joke, my job was keeping his photo off the front covers of magazines, cause nobody wants to walk into a convenience store and see that face staring back at them. Looking at him today, the beauty truly shines through. – JDW…
The old writer continued to plumb his files. Here’s a public service piece from 1993. Almost makes me want to donate. Think health care debate.- JDW In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again; and in him,…
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. – James Q. Wilson At Grubmeyer’s Markets, Inc., first thing Monday morning, that’s seven a.m., not a minute later, there’s a mandatory staff meeting. A hell of a way to start the week, some say. When old Mr. Grubmeyer was alive, he was always talking about…
Circa 1995. Pro golfers are – in many ways – the toughest athletes I’ve ever encountered. Learned a lot from them. – JDW Of all hazards, fear is the worst. – Sam Snead Some things you can never really understand unless you have been through them yourself. Like childbirth. Or the PGA Tour’s Qualifying School….
Here’s some good work – or rather an example of some good works – from 1993, I imagine. Record-keeping is not my métier. – JDW When the voices of children are heard on the green, and laughing is heard on the hill. – William Blake. The Easter Seals Society of Oregon promotes independence for…