The famous 30 Rock isn’t the only downtown outdoor center that’s got it going on. I thought I might find a deserted core Saturday in the heart of Syracuse, N.Y., when I had my dear wife Karen stop the car off on our way to a holiday party so I could see if there was…
Two big boxes, one strip center, one old-school mall and a mega entertainment, dining and shopping cooooomplex! I started and finished my Christmas shopping yesterday. When I got home, I quickly addressed the cards to my significants ahoy, stuffed them with the gift cards, affixed stamps and walked in the rain with Ellie B aka…
Mulling over the list of inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2015 class of inductees announced today, Lou Reed pulls my thoughts like a magnet. New York connection, dating back to my Wonder Bread years, when I’m pretty sure my parents did not know that this Velvet Underground character had made it…
Listen attentively to the lyrics “Whiskey Slurs” and you’d think these could be the stories of people fighting out their living one block over, one street down, one neighborhood away. Maybe even in the garage next door. They sing about being in a band and how proud they are of it and hell no, that…
Religion and the big screen. Namely, Moses and his journey to deliver the chosen people to the Promised Land and his chats with God so he could chisel out The Ten Commandments, a time-tested theme on the big screen. I went this weekend to watch Ridley Scott’s epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings” for this morning’s…
I’m 57 years old today, this guy born in 1957. It’s my Beddian Birthday. My dear wife Karen and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle started the day off by presenting me with a big pile of wonderful gifts. With our new-found enthusiasm for Cabernet Savignon since our spring bus tour excursion to the Finger Lakes…
Barb Taub used to write a column over here in the United States. Now she lives on the other side of the big pond, where she’s a novelist, and a blogger on WordPress. Her words are eye-catching to me. On Dec. 4, she wrote a piece titled “Tap-Dancing on a Wire,” with the sub-head “If…
So it was just four days ago that my blogging friend mewhoami posted her excellent piece titled “Whose Blog Is It Anyway?” If you click the link above, you’ll see that she wondered about folks who “hop around to various blogs, critique their writing styles and make suggestions on how they would have written the…
As I’ve written about the snow piling up around our Little Bitty the past few days here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, somebody asked me in a comment about the reaction of Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. Well, Diana, I do believe you will be able to see for yourself. Not one of…
When Brian Williams told me on “NBC Nightly News” earlier this week that Bob Dylan had recorded an album of Frank Sinatra songs I sat up and listened harder. Ten songs. Title of ““Shadows in the Night.” Coming out in February. Williams, such a music lover himself that he has a pretty cool online series…
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