I met George Steinbrenner once – well, sort of. Ed, a guy named Boone (not the one from Animal House) and I were at Yankee Spring Training back in 2004. The weather was kind and the outlook was saucy, for the beer tender was less than attentive and bleach plus flatulence isn’t far off of [...]
July 4, 1930 – July 13, 2010 I will be surprised if Mr. Smith doesn’t write something about losing the legendary owner of his favorite baseball team, but I still wanted to post a short, off-kilter tribute from the perspective of someone who is not – and never has been – a baseball fan. Upon [...]
(I wrote this shortly after Michael Jackson “shook his body [down to the ground]“ for the last time, but never put it on the site for whatever reason. Since Friday is the one-year anniversary of his demise, I’ve decided to revive it before all the other tributes inevitably begin.) It all started with the man [...]
Keith Elam aka Guru: July 17, 1966-April 19, 2010 Mr. Smith will be along shortly with what is sure to be another memorable post, but I wanted to take a minute and pay homage to a rap legend who passed away yesterday. I have said before that I was once a huge fan of rap, [...]
