Entering a new e world, and it’s not about dating

I’m trying to attract attention with a new online profile. I showed it to my dear wife Karen, and she gave it the green light. This first week after my temp agency informed me the 40-hour-per company had decided to end my assignment two months in has included enough soul searching to remind me that…

Thirteen years ago, we were invaded forever

Thirteen years ago to the minute, I was watching in horror as the television screens in the newsroom of the Syracuse Newspapers were all turned to some version of that horrible vision above. Oh, how the 9 o’clock hour on this day sends shivers down my spine every year. It forever will. The fact that…

Godzilla apparently lost the fight for screen time

When you remake a classic like “Godzilla,” you’re going to give the scaly beast plenty of star power, right? That’s what I thought, even though the monster mash didn’t make my review list this summer. Then I caught the Cinema Blend story by Mike Bracken writing of the Honest Trailers clip that picks on the…

Another weekend where everybody feels Irish

Dancers with a high step. Singers of Celtic rock. Singers with traditional strings. Spirits and spirit. The Syracuse Irish Festival was again sponsored by Guinness last Friday and Saturday, and it was pretty evident that the people it drew to downtown’s Clinton Square felt pretty darn Irish about the whole thing. In March, St. Patrick’s…

I can smell the September flowers

It’s a good day to step out and appreciate what I’ve got here with my dear wife Karen in our home in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Syracuse. In the hourglass front-yard garden, the roses are celebrating September with another cycle of blossoms. Pink and white, side by side. The violet peeking out belongs to…

‘The Identical’ isn’t an Elvis impersonator, really

Everything in “The Identical” screams Elvis Presley. The South. The 1950s, teen growing up with faith wanting to sing rock and soul and R ‘n’ B. But it’s not supposed to be, is it? Except they casted as the main character(s) Ryan Wade/Dexter Hemsley one Blake Rayne, who looks like a cherubic young Elvis and…

A turnaround season ends too soon

I didn’t get to a Chiefs playoff game. After all these years of no postseason baseball play here in Syracuse, we got one-and-done. I had to catch the score on my iPad. A 7-6 loss to the Pawtucket Red Sox in the third game of the International League’s first round was the final note of…