As Seen at the Kalmenson’s
–> Yes sir folks, our very own voice over plumber. I’m sure you’ve all heard about singing waiters, part time bartenders, and even off-duty cops who pick up a doubloon or two out there as a location guard. But today, comes a very special arbiter – a prince amongst the common and ordinary of our...
Read More The Courage to Laugh
The Courage It Takes to Make People Laugh! DISCLAIMER: My words are an inexact science (like I really needed to tell you that) and much of what I have to say is being brought forth free of any remotely humble display; an exposition, or if you will, an exposé of this guy’s years of gathering,...
Read More Hooray for Harley Davidson
A while back, you could have bet the ranch that Harvey Kalmenson couldn’t be found holding court and singing the praises of the folks who are part of the Harley Davidson Family. Make no mistake folks, I found out that they do much more for society than any of us give them credit for doing. ...
Read More About Feet: Your Feet, My Feet, Our Feet, Everybody’s Feet
In general, most feet aren’t particularly attractive. Don’t you think so, especially as one grows older? Some of the oldest and wisest of us human beings happen to have the ugliest feet on the planet. As a matter of fact, the more special the owner of the feet, the more likely it is that those...
Read More Writer’s Corner
I’ve written myself into a corner and the smell of my burning brain is putrid. (Clock rollback time) Without the marvel of a lit cigarette in an ashtray simultaneously racing the smoke from the one dangling from my mouth to the ceiling, both pacifiers serving me well as indulgent crutches for more than fifteen years....
Read More The Faceless Paintings – Revisited
In my Thursday, August 2, 2012 post titled “The Faceless Paintings,” I called attention to what I thought was fact regarding our artist Tibor Jankay having never sold a painting in his lifetime. For those of you who read the story, you may recall he regarded his paintings as family. You may also recall how...
Read More A Field Trip Tour Of My Business Life
This “white paper” was stimulated by an actor’s comments having to do with the Harvey and Catherine Kalmenson work ethic. The actor in question has known the two of us for many, many years. With an all-knowing sinister look decorating his very well known countenance, he extended his hand to mine, gripped it firmly, and...
Read More Faceless Paintings
Yesterday was over fifty years ago. Two paintings that hang in the entry of our home act as my constant memory of a past lived by two people whose love was the force that allowed them to survive the depths of human indignity. Whole families disappeared from neighborhoods. Driven by desperation, their will to survive...
Read More Time’s Swift Flight
We all know about the speed of sound and light. As we enter and go through school, at least one time or another the scientific formulas of each traveling rate are readily explained. What we are never aware of at an early age is how short our life on this planet really is. Each and...
Read More Friends from the Street
Preface Hallucinations. Have you ever tossed and turned during the night knowing the cause was being over tired and wiped out? That was I some few days ago. Our business is so damn strange; it always has been. We can sit and stare at the walls wondering whether anyone exists out there in the realm...
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