I love driving in the winter. In the summer you’re battling the heat.  You’ve got to drive long enough to have the a/c kick in.  You’re always trying to get cool.  But in the winter, it’s cold outside, but inside, with the sun entering the windshield you’re warmed like a piece of bread in a […]

I’m not a fan.  I bought "Metropolitan Life" but never read it. The hype for this film offended me, because it was just that.  But it was ultimately minimal, a few stories over the weekend, then nothing. But then began the word of mouth. First from my mother. Then from Jeff. Last night I pulled […]

We went to the SModcastle. It’s the filters that kill me.  You know, that intestinal process in Hollywood where what goes in one end resembles not a whit what comes out the other.  There’s always some jerk-off insisting that a scene be changed so that someone in a faraway land will like the movie.  And […]

I was hiking in the mountains a month ago and I realized I could never be rich.  That as hard as I might work, I’d never have the wealth of a banker.  And that was a revelation.  You see I too believed in the American Dream.  That if I worked hard, if I doubled down, […]