I visited the Ground Zero memorial for the first time, this summer, during our week working with A House on Beekman. I had medium-low expectations about it. It’s essentially perfect. These really spectacular in-ground fountains mark the footprint of the towers. I had a moment, with some song on my ipod, that I can’t even […]
Author: The Fresh Junket
Substance Abuse
I know there is a conventional science to interventions. But, from my limited research, consisting mainly of the A&E show, Intervention, and that one scene in Hoosiers when Coach Dale offers Shooter an assistant coaching job if he “sobers up,” they seem largely the opposite of what you’d actually want to do. A big surprise. […]
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That’s how old Diana Nyad is now, as she makes her 5th attempt to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to Florida. She’s nearly there. I expressed my infatuation with her last year, here. I had so much fun at the turn of the millennium that I vowed, with the aid of bio-engineering and blood […]
Football Fantasy
The hardest fantasy football song ever written. This is for all the “girls” in my fantasy football league that I’m going to embarrass again this year at not-real football. [My apologies to real girls everywhere for using your gender so pejoratively. While I don’t think you’re less capable at fantasy football than men, all the […]
Back to School
Today’s blong is dedicated to that one mom who’s in the pick-up-line three hours early every day. She can’t keep her eyes off me. We had an open house Monday night. I’m pretty sure there were three cars already in line for today’s pick up. Back to school. Written and performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced […]
Two Evils
So my wife and I have been trying to get our own finances in order. You would think that counting $6 would be pretty straight forward. The real obstacle to making additional room in your budget is the “fixed” costs. Those are the costs that can’t be eliminated or easily reduced. Think your mortgage or […]
Man of the Cloth
Like a miniature Podcast Hadron Collider, my recently upgraded-to iPhone 5 nearly destroyed the known universe. Without warning, my two most severe passions circled back on each other at speeds approaching that of light, when the Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, this week, dedicated an entire podcast to the cinema career of Jodie Foster. Like two […]
My Favorite Player
I have three things to say about Alex Rodriguez. 1. He did this to himself. He isn’t very cool. He’s too rehearsed. He probably shouldn’t have chased big money contracts to Texas and then New York. He shouldn’t allow celebrity actresses to feed him popcorn from a bag, Constantine or, rather, middle school, style. He […]
The Girls
I normally stretch to remember the humanbeingness of serial killers, rapists, and sexual predators. The easiest take is to call them Monsters. In just a few weeks’ time, we’ve seen the Ariel Castro plea and sentencing; heard additional allegations of another Ohio man holding three women; and, just the other day, learned news that a […]
Call Me Maybe
You know the telephone game. Everyone sits in a circle. The first person whispers a secret to their neighbor, “I like to eat mushroom pizza.” And by the the time it circumnavigates the group it’s morphed into something like, “I liked to beat up my lunchroom teacher” or “I spiked a peach with a much […]
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