Today the BMW-Oracle syndicate defeated Alinghi in the Americas Cup. The race was unconventional from the start, featuring multi-hull boats rather than the traditional 12m single hull boats, not to mention the multi-year legal battle waged against Alinghi by BMW-Oracle to gain an advantage in location and boat design. It was also different in terms [...]
Instead support up and coming author Jacob Paul and an indie publisher (Ig Publishing) out of Brooklyn by buying Sarah/Sara.
I am an avid reader of contemporary literature as well as historical fiction and non-fiction, poetry, pulp fiction, the odd twinkie thriller page turner, and of course, cook books. There is one book however that [...]
Several years ago I had the privilege of hearing David Sedaris read his short story “6 to 8 Blackmen” (I don’t know its official title), Live, in Olympia, Washington. (I was with one other American, a very recent immigrant from Sweden and a Filipino man. The other American and I nearly fell out [...]
The following is an account of a bullfight and may not be appropriate for all audiences.
So I found myself at a bullfight the other day. I say “found myself” as if 2 ½ years of hard thinking and contemplation about whether to go hadn’t gone into the decision to be there. Normally (that is, when [...]
Of the many basically obvious things that seem to escape our dog Roscoe’s comprehension (like that moving cars are dangerous but water sprinklers are not) is that when you go out into our 2-door patio through one open door, you probably re-enter the house through the same open door which you exited. This weekend he [...]