F*ing Nazis

So, David Mamet has been hired by Disney to pen a new movie version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Let me repeat.
Disney. Mamet. Anne Frank.
Ext. Holland. Day.
Close up on a perfect blood red tulip. Camera slowly pulls back to reveal the tulip is one of thousands in this field. The wind has them bending in [...]

“You have the right to remain silent…”

The world’s first Beer Summit. I’m more than a little shocked this took so long. Forget the G8 and the world economic forums, let’s everyone sit down over a frosty brew and talk like men. Pass the pretzels-oops sorry none for you George W.
Let’s take a close investigative look at the world’s first Beer Summit.
First [...]

Batter Up…

Just when I think I’ve seen it all in New York…
My summer softball team practices on a field in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It’s adjacent to some low-income projects and what is generally a low-income mixed immigrant neighborhood. Although genetrification is rapidly changing that. There are four softball diamonds on this field. Usually there are kids [...]

No One Wants A Saggy Loaf

We all know the end of the world is nigh. If the Terrorists don’t kill us, the pigs will, if the pigs don’t, the ecoli bacteria will, if the Ebola bacteria doesn’t, global warming will, and the list goes on. But there is a crisis that has emerged that is more horrifying than all the [...]

Yo Ho Ho…

I have had it with the damn pirates. Oh sure they are a nasty nasty bunch and I want to feel angry at the situation that led them to piracy as well as their despicable actions at sea, but I can’t. Why? Because they are called PIRATES. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! [...]