Today is Mother’s Day. Hopefully, it was a restful and gorgeous day wherever you are. It’s not gorgeous in Baltimore. I watched the Cubs game on WGN; it wasn’t gorgeous there, either. But I want to think it’s gorgeous where you are. 🙂 Mother’s Day began at a church in Grafton, West Virginia. I’d callContinue reading “On Mother’s Day”
Author Archives: Allyn
On Being a Play
If I were a Shakespearean play… Your Score: Julius Caesar You scored 55% = Tragic, 34% = Comic, 14% = Romantic, 39% = Historic You are Julius Caesar. Set during the mid-March in Rome, Julius Caesar tells the story of the conspiracy against and assassination of Julius Caesar. While not considered one of Shakespeare’s Histories,Continue reading “On Being a Play”
On an Alternate Clockwork Orange
You learn something new every day. Mick Jagger wanted to star as Alex in A Clockwork Orange. The Beatles wanted to compose the film’s soundtrack. So says a letter from Mick Jagger’s manager, dating back to 1968. He was writing to John Schlesigner, the director attached to A Clockwork Orange. Schlesinger passed on the project,Continue reading “On an Alternate Clockwork Orange”
On Something for the Beatles Fans
From time to time I’ve mentioned “Now and Then,” a John Lennon demo that keeps getting touted as a potential release in some fashion in the coming months. Indeed, there’s a fan-created mix of the song that I think sounds positively Beatlesque. Maybe it’s all just wishful thinking. That there’s something in the vault, somethingContinue reading “On Something for the Beatles Fans”
On Words I’ve Used Today
“Inhumanization.” Hum. I think I’m going to change that to “dehumanization.” No, I like “inhumanization.” It’s less well known.
On Political Geek-Fu
An e-mail I wrote was read on today’s Talk of the Nation! 🙂 Neal Conan asked the question — What state has gone the longest without voting for a Republican in the presidential election? I sent a reply via e-mail: Minnesota would be the state that’s gone longest without voting for a Republican. It wasContinue reading “On Political Geek-Fu”
On the Polo Grounds
Last night, Sammy Sosa hit a grand slam in the Polo Grounds, blasting the ball to the center field bleachers, over 500 feet from home plate. In a baseball video game, that is. MVP Baseball 2004, to be exact. That wasn’t Sosa’s only home run to straightaway center. He hit a three-run shot in theContinue reading “On the Polo Grounds”
On the Book Closest to Hand
I’ve been tagged by a meme! Our instructions are: * Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages). * Open the book to page 123. * Find the fifth sentence. * Post the next three sentences. * Tag five people The closest book to hand is Tales from the Captain’s Table, edited byContinue reading “On the Book Closest to Hand”
On Getting to Work
About four miles from my house is the subway terminal. Across the street from my office building is the light rail station. I’d long thought about doing the socially and environmentally responsible thing — take the subway into downtown, and pick up the light rail back out of downtown to the office. I’ve had theContinue reading “On Getting to Work”
On April’s Search Phrases
Rather than play the usual game of rambling about the things people most want to know, on the theory that I know something about them, instead we’ll look at the things people least want to know about. In the month of April, 1900 different search phrases were entered in Google or Yahoo! or MSN toContinue reading “On April’s Search Phrases”