Bill Murray wins me over as a meanie with a small soft side

Bill Murray is somebody completely different in “St. Vincent.” And oh, do I love the cool old guy for it. Hey, I’ve been digging his work long enough that I feel like I can call him an old guy with no serious repercussions, right, Bill? I know, 64, you’ve got a lot of greatness still…

So you asked for prompts, Team Pepper? Nano Poblano

Here’s a list of prompts for those joining Team Pepper 2014 for Nano Poblano, aka WordPress and BlogHer’s NaBloPoMo for November. 1. If you could invent a new eating utensil, what would it look like and what would you call it? 2. Finish this sentence: Sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I want…

Team Pepper gets spicy right here, Nano Poblano

Updated after week two with link below taking you to post with comments from volunteers who want to be tagged for all or various Blog Hops. https://markbialczak.com/2014/11/14/two-weeks-down-nano-poblano-time-to-hop-in-and-volunteer/ The first of November has its fist raised. It comes a knockin’ on our doors right after all the trick or treaters have cleaned us out of all…

Clemson fans boo injured Syracuse players; not cool, ever

The Clemson fans booed an injured Syracuse player Saturday night as I watched the college football game from South Carolina unwind on my flat screen from the comfort of my living room up here in Central New York. More than once. So I figured it was not an accident. It did not make me happy.…

365 days, 573 posts, 1 sweaty writer

With the opportunity for the eyes of the world to read or not to read this sentence of mine, I’ve accomplished something that started high above one of the wonders of the world 365 days ago. That morning I published here on WordPress the glorious view of sunrise on Oct. 27, 2013, which happened to…

Ellie B earns the dreaded double leash

My around-the-block with Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle turned into an unwanted adventure last week. The dog slipped her gentle leader. Oh, my wily beloved rescue mutt has managed to free her nose from the black circle of mesh before, but as we walked down the hill on our street, four houses from home in…

‘The Book of Mormon’ knocks on Syracuse’s door with Broadway laughs and sound

Some topics are ripe for the picking. They sit on the shelf of our society ready for any amateur yuckster to poke at playfully, for stand-up guys and girls to jab at with certain enthusiasm, for monologue writers to roll over disdainfully with the toe of their shoe. Did you hear the one about the…

As ‘John Wick’ gets good reviews, Keanu Reeves has a beef

Everything is relative. So when Cinema Blend comes out with a story on the week that the movie “John Wick,” starring Keanu Reeves, will hit the theaters with the news that all is not great in Mr. Reeves’ world, well, I’m not rushing out there to Hollywood holding out my box of Kleenex. Still. I…

For Jimmy and Tootie Heath, the brotherly love of music started in Philadelphia

In 1975, three siblings who grew up in Philadephia thought they’d pool their vast talents in jazz as the Heath Brothers. The eldest, Percy Heath, played double bass. Middle man Jimmy Heath was a star of alto sax. Kid brother Albert “Tootie” was the drummer. They’d been in the bands of Dizzie Gillespie and John…

But my Nashville Hawkeye friends win the drinking game

I know it did not take long for moonshine shots to go down in a mini-manse in Nashville. On the first offensive play of the game, a little past noon Saturday, C.J. Brown, the quarterback of my alma mater Maryland Terrapins, threw the football into the arms of an Iowa linebacker. A couple plays later,…

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