A sine qua non of any hip and trendy enterprise during the late 1990s was a task force charged with profound, game-changing, and often metaphysical organizational goals and – more importantly – endowed with aContinue reading
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Frivolous amusements
Leonard Cohen Tour Schedule, Rebecca De Mornay, & DrHGuy.com Confluence Results In Reunion
Note: I originally posted this entry Nov 17, 2012 on 1HeckOfAGuy so it disappeared when that site was, for all practical reasons, terminated. The post is just too heartwarming – at least for me –Continue reading
Things I Like About The NCAA Basketball Tournament: Classic Rivalries
More precisely, I admire classic rivalries that are mindlessly sustained. Following Duke’s victory in the 1992 championship game, I left the stadium in a bus full of (adult) Duke supporters. Within nanoseconds, the bus wasContinue reading
Things I Like About The NCAA Basketball Tournament: Obscure Mascots
I have a thing for mascots, the more obscure the better. This year’s winner: The Iona Gaels.
Things I Like About The NCAA Basketball Tournament: Gonzaga
I began watching the NCAA Basketball Tournament so long ago that I still automatically associate Gonzaga1 with Cinderella Team even though they have for years been more accurately characterized as a perpetual powerhouse (this yearContinue reading
DrHGuy & The Duchess Ascend Into Elegant Living With Onset Of Toilet Paper Origami
Until this week, The Duchess and I were resigned to living at a level of domesticity no more sophisticated than the local Holiday Inn. Our cleaning service would arrange the end tissue of the rollContinue reading
A Different Approach To Internet Challenges
My failure, thus far, to achieve a hip and trendy life notwithstanding, I persist in this aspiration. Having realized that the odds against traversing the classic routes to this goal, i.e., joining the Kardashian familyContinue reading
“The aura of louche glamour he carries — like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert” Tom Stoppard Interview With Daphne Merkin – New York Times. Nov 26, 2006
Playing With Ideas by Daphne Merkin. New York Times. November 26, 2006 It may be impossible to write a boring article about an interview with Tom Stoppard. In any case, this longish New YorkContinue reading