If you were to sleep that way, by the time morning rolled around total paralysis would have set in. Of course I had the fun advantage of watching her, and listening as she feverishly prepared to read the two-line commercial script. Armed with her trusty marking pen (ink is a no, no at best) she…
I suppose it was an obvious thing to happen at a memorial service for the likes of Robert Easton. Sixty-four years or more of building credits is understandably mind-boggling. The scroll of names of the people he had coached through the years appeared in an endless parade on a full size movie screen, which had…
Viewing and reviewing is not my reason for going to the movies. (Yes, I still call them the movies). I wonder if anyone much younger than me ever thinks of them as movies. The term movies originated just for the reason one might think; before there were movies, what you had to look at were…
PREAMBLE: My very few words that follow were stimulated by a lifetime of beliefs (mine) in the United States of America (my country, and yours as well). Wearing the uniform of our American army during a war has perhaps given me, and a very select group of comrades, men and women, an unequalled opportunity to…
They’re never going to believe you, but you tell it anyway. After all, you were there, and besides it gives you so much absolute fun to recall the complete absurdity, or total charm, of a past moment, of a past era, of another day. You may have been much younger then, or it might be…
A guy once told me how he never wanted to sober up. I wondered what the hell he was talking about; was he nuts? His demeanor didn’t resemble someone under the influence of drugs or alcohol. As a matter of fact, in today’s parlance, I’d categorize him as pretty much together. Of course it’s what…
Questions propel Often in abstract formFrom child hood on and on, endless Wonder is what I do almost every day.Wonder in every way “A remarkable person exists as a wonder to those he or she may perceive with great wonderment.”Hk One day not too long ago, in another century, I found myself atop a hill…
Talk, talk, and talk. The newspapers and the TV talking heads are all at it again. The despot jerk that was the leader of one of the most depressed countries the world has ever known has dropped dead, they say from an apparent heart attack. I doubt if anyone could ever treat his fellow citizens…
We had our office staff, teachers and engineers Christmas, Hannukah, and all purpose seasonal holiday party this Sunday last, December 11, at Firenze Osteria; Lisa Long’s establishment on Lankershim Blvd. In what Lisa calls Toluca Lake. One very large table in our own separate banquet room, was set up for us with all the frills…
A Throng of one Without balance or justificationA stand-alone throng of oneReviewed daily by way of mirrorAs often as one might appearLook what joy I see in meNo questions allowedMore speed when space need not be sharedLacking despair, for none was ever thereWhat was has always beenA one sided building leaningTowards KalmensonAt one with being…