Sunday, July 20, 2014

Jim Rockford: My Last Innocent Girlhood Crush

Where the generation before me found daydream crushes in the leading men of the movies, my girlhood stirrings founds their objects of desire squarely on TV. I fell for my first three when their prime-time shows from the 1960s were shown in syndication in the 1970s, and my older brother and I watched...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

July 8, 1822, and the Burning, Reckless Heart of Shelley

It is to-day a hundred years since that sultry afternoon when Edward John Trelawny, aboard Byron’s schooner-yacht Bolivar, fretted anxiously in Leghorn Harbour and watched the threatening sky. The thunderstorm that broke about half-past six lasted only twenty minutes, but it was long enough to drown...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

The Sun Also Rises on The Festival of San Fermin: aka The Running of the Bulls

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly  to counteract the feeling...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Independence Day: A Slight Refresher Course in the Events that Changed the World

Happy Birthday, USA. Another  Independence Day when we stop commerce, close the Stock Market, hit the beaches, go to baseballs games, gather in backyards for the very idea of our Declaration of Independence. It's the anniversary of our legal separation from Great Britain, but not the...
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