The way I figure, if you’re reading this site, you know that I was a hit-and-run victim Thanksgiving Weekend ’08 so I won’t belabor the point. (If that’s news to you, I’m ok, and you can read about it here).…
Charlie Dawg Update
Had another animal-hospital appointment today. They said everything’s healing up splendidly. This is good because over the weekend, Charlie was back to Sea Isle energy Charlie, trying to run all over like my living room was the 91st St. beach.…
Violence, in violence’s wake
Back in ’06, my work and non-work worlds collided when Robert Pierson, a 17-year-old from Fairmount (a neighborhood in Philly, for those out-of-towners) who used to hang out on my stoop from time to time, was gunned down a block…
And the Legend of Elway remains safe and secure
I’m not going to lie: My vehement disdain for latter-career Brett Favre has been motivated by a simple desire. That desire, of course, was to protect my sporting hero John Elway’s status (at or nearly) atop the historial QBing heap.…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Stack of Leftovers Addendum Edition)
Kickoff’s fast approaching, so if you’re gonna read these today, read ’em with the quickness: From the New Yorker, as stellar a breakdown as I’ve yet seen on the evolving mediapolitical complex. From the Times, Frank Rich breaks down what…
Weekend Reading Roundup (Stack of Leftover Magazines Edition)
And when there’s a stack of leftover magazines that somehow evaded Roundup notice, the only logical thing is to let one sentence do the talking for each notable story. So that’s’a’what’i’m’a’do. — An English DJ thought it’d be a great…
Coming next week …
… or sometime soon, I’m going to start tracking hit-and-runs from across the country on here. I’ve already started getting some public-figure help in an effort to strengthen the penalties in Pa. — much more on that later — but…
The Day the Music Coma-ed
I’ll readily admit to anybody who hasn’t been around me and a jukebox simultaneously that I’m a Killers fanboy. They just rock. I don’t care what anybody says to the contrary. But what I do care about is this news…
She just wanted to see which way Beckham really bent
From Fox Soccer: An Italian television channel has apologized for a prank in which a female presenter attempted to grab David Beckham between the legs. The AC Milan midfielder was visibly angered when Elena Di Cioccio, who fronts the popular…