One morning in 2004, I was on my way to work at the McElroy Translation Company. First, however, I pulled into a convenience store at the intersection of 10th Street and Lamar Boulevard with one purpose in mind: to become fabulously wealthy in...
Aleta Fairchild, a colleague at a company where I worked in the 1980s, told me an interesting story. This woman, a native of Idaho, had been determined to avoid becoming a secretary. She thought the best way to prevent that was to not learn...
Popular acclamation for the basketball and football versions of Ogden Nash’s poem “Line-up for Yesterday” has been enormous. OK, my parole officer liked it; and I shoot pool with a guy named Vinny who found my rhymes mildly...
As I did in the previous entry, I wish to spoof or lampoon Ogden Nash's famous poem about baseball. The more I read it, the more it seems he composed his little ditty in an afternoon while he had something else on his mind, while he was...
In 1949, Ogden Nash penned his famous poem “Line-up for Yesterday” for Sport magazine. In it, he recalled baseball greats of the past in alphabetical order. I find the poem’s enduring cultural value rather puzzling. I am...
Just 22 years before my matriculation at the University of Texas, a concert was given on campus that did not draw a lot of attention. It was summertime, June 15, 1949, to be specific, and most of the students were away. Appearing that night...
I am writing this just a couple of hours after Eli Manning led the New York Giants to their second Super Bowl victory (21-17 over the New England Patriots) in four years. He was named the game’s MVP. I like Manning and his low-key...
A few months ago, while wandering around the used-book section at Amazon.com, I took note of a very cheap, out-of-print tome about London. Penned more than 60 years earlier, it was surely not up to date. The capital of England has changed a...
“Do not speak badly of the dead.” So we are told by the ancient Greek scribe Diogenes Laertius. These are wise words, and in general I try to adhere to them. But I wonder whether Diogenes ever came across a man so worthy of...
I had attended a baseball game (Samsung Lions vs. LG Twins) with my friend Nam-Il during the summer of 2011, and he asked me to join him at a movie six months later. Which one? He said that was up to me. A different friend recommended Mission...
While having coffee with colleagues after lunch recently, one of them expressed puzzlement as to why I would be reading the biography of a man, Samuel Johnson, who lived more than 250 years ago. In point of fact, I have read books going...
AncoraThemes © 2024. All Rights Reserved
