As anyone with an Old Dog knows, as long as they want to eat, they want to live. Yeager the Weimaraner gets a dogfood cake on his Independence Day birthday and at Christmas parties he scavenges what he can from… Read More ›
Archive for 2011
Good Time Charlie: The Sheen of Hollywood's Resurrected Rogue
In repossessing his previously successful persona, Charlie Sheen is now tweaking it into a narrative only Hollywood’s long-gone “Rogue” Archetype can play out. Whether search efforts for chards of the original Person have been abandoned only he knows; others only speculate…. Read More ›
Princess Diana’s Wedding Cake: A 70s Tin-Pan Favorite
While in Michigan, I also got to taste what was allegedly the most requested confection of the 80s, a royal sweet. As is so often true with Americans, there is a mild obsession with the British Royal Family, and Princess… Read More ›
Upper Midwestern Fish Fry: The Walleye
While in Michigan, I had a chance to try a locally-famous freshwater fish, the Walleye. One finds it only in the upper midwestern states near where its fished, in the Great Lakes. It’s a whitefish, and mine was served with… Read More ›
An Old Dog's Last Runyon Run? A Walk in the Park
When I officially adopted Yeager on New Year’s Day 2002, he was six and a half years old, almost to the day. I was spared the frustrating joys of inculcating good behavior in a puppy and got to jump… Read More ›
When Is a Dog Old?
At one point in the life shared between human and dog companions, it will often belatedly dawn on the former that the latter has suddenly found his day to be perfectly fulfilling with just a deeper sleep and a… Read More ›
The Reassuring Flop of the Bubblegum Idol
It is far too easy to bemoan the deepening shallowness of the American Pop Culture, but if an admittedly-shallow survey of what makes the American Teenage Girl scream and spend money is any gauge, then there is hope. It’s a survey based… Read More ›
Gooseberry Pie: The Bite of Pennsylvania’s Rare Berry
Nothing says Keystone State like….Gooseberry!? No, it is not what is fed to geese or does it have to do with the feeling your skin gets when a fright comes over you. And, a fool is a sort of fruit… Read More ›
EyePhone to iPhone, The Past’s Perfect Future
There was never a better time ahead in the past than the future as seen from the Jet Age, that slice of powder blue optimism running from about 1957 to 1965. Kids would fly to school with jetpacks and moving… Read More ›
The Inside on the Ex-President: Always Centered
Far too many readers assume history is a quaintly irrelevant retelling of wars or migrations or depressions, and far too many such books bear that out by forgetting that it is ultimately individual human beings who direct society’s fate. Among… Read More ›
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