I went down early last night- the combination of the Saturday at the office, the birthday party for the 89-year-old former Clandestine Agent, who looks like butter would not melt in her mouth, and the subsequent hour-long swim in the cool blue waters left me drained. I got up to the raucous Indy rock from […]

I am way behind this morning. Impossibly so; I got up at the usual time this morning, but decided to go back to bed- I had made the mistake of attempting to watch The Dark Knight on DVD and predictable happened there in the brown chair near the door: I came to consciousness around 0200 […]

  “The Libyan people cannot kneel, cannot surrender; we are not women,” – –      –  Madcap Despot Muhammar Qaddafy in an audio recording broadcast on al-Rai, a Syrian national public media outlet. Muhammar Qaddafy is hanging on to his freedom, at the moment, anyway, and his thug buddies in the Assad Administration are continuing to […]

The President is back from vacation, and focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy. I heard that he welcomes the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress next week. They say he is going to “challenge our nation’s leaders to start focusing 100 percent of their attention on doing […]

Damn, Summer went by so fast. The Government is spasming at the end of the Fiscal Year; too much stuff going on to close out their books, and so August was a cypher. The pool is going to close (during the week) next week. Football starts. Damn. I walked to work yesterday- it was that […]

Tinkerbell was taking care of us well last night. Mac did a second installment on his 92nd birthday, venturing out form The Madison in his golden Jaguar to join some admirers at Willow. Tink managed to doctor up a Bloody Shame (tomato juice sans vodka) for Mac with almost all the trimmings- cocktail onions, jumbo […]

As you know, the English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for groups of animals. There is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows, a School of fish, an Exaltation of doves and a Parliament of owls. Now consider the baboon, the loudest, most dangerous, and viciously aggressive of all primates. And what […]

As it turned out, it was a good night here in Arlington, and a relatively peaceful passing of the first hurricane here since Isabel roared through on September 6th, 2003. I was in unit 515 at Big Pink then, on the south face of the massive building and took the winds head on from the […]

Irene good night, Irene good night, Good night Irene, good night Irene, I’ll see you in my dreams. Last Saturday night I got married, Me and my wife settled down, Now me and my wife we are parted, I think I’ll go out on the town. Sometimes I live in the country, Sometimes I live […]

When I get older losing my hair, Many years from now, Will you still be sending me a valentine Birthday greetings bottle of wine? If I’d been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door, Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I’m sixty-four? – Lennon and McCartney Who […]