“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.” Alvin Dark THE BIGGEST BLOW-OUT IN MLB HISTORY The biggest blowout game in major-league history was on August 22, 2007, when the Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles, 30-3. That’s a 27-run differential. It eclipsed the 25 runs between theContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: BASEBALL”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISLAID LIFE: AMERICANA
In 1997 David Bowie raised $55 million by selling investors securities backed by the royalties of 25 of his albums. The so-called “Bowie Bonds” had a 7.9% return over 10 years, higher than the 6.37 percent of a 10-year U.S. Treasury note.ONE GOOD FACT website June 06, 2024**Benjamin Franklin Designed the First Penny”Long before AbrahamContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISLAID LIFE: AMERICANA”
BITS AND PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #31
OPENING REMARKS TO THE YALE LAW SCHOOL FILM SOCIETY”I have been asked what it is like to be a personage of the cinema. [long pause] It’s like being trampled to death by geese.”Robert Mitchum. Reported by Brad Darrach in Penthouse, 1972**WHEN BRADFORD CRAWFORD DRANK FRANK SINATRA’S WIG”He drank Sinatra’s piece. We were trying to pullContinue reading “BITS AND PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #31”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING
READING IN MOVIESHarry is shown reading the Stephen King novel “Misery”. The film adaptation Misery (1990) would be the next film directed by Rob Reiner.iMDb Trivia for When Harry Met Sally**THE OLDEST SURVIVING WRITTEN TALEThe “Epic of Gilgamesh” Is the Oldest Surviving Written TaleThe ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh is often cited as the oldestContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:COMICS &COMIC STRIPS
Nelson Breen, Emmy Award Winning Film-maker & COMIC STRIPSI was a religious reader of every comic in both The Daily News and The Daily Mirror throughout high school. So much so that when I went off to the University of Virginia, my mother would cut out the strips every day, put them in order alongContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:COMICS &COMIC STRIPS”
BITS & PIECES OF MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
“It is a truth only fitfully acknowledged that whom the godswish to destroy, they first give an opinion column.” Parul Sehgal. The New Yorker (October 21, 2024)** STORY TELLING & SELF KNOWLEDGE I believe most of us tell a story about our lives and then come to live within that story. You can’t know whoContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30
THE ACADEMY AWARDS BIG FIVEIn the history of the Oscars, only three films have swept the so-called “Big Five” categories, which include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. The first was 1934’s “It Happened One Night,” earning Frank Capra, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Robert Riskin individual awards in theContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THIS & THAT
PAINTING BY RUSSELL CONNOR. from MASTERS IN PIECES “What Irishman ever took seriously what he put down on a piece of government paper? P.J. Kavanagh**GERMANY & CHINESE CHECKERSContrary to its name, however, Chinese checkers has nothing to do with China — it’s a variation of a game called Halma (meaning “jump” in Greek). Halma featuresContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THIS & THAT”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING
DO NOT EAT THIS BOOK”Menelik II,the emperor of Ethiopia at the turn of the century,liked to chew pages from the Bible. Unfortunately, he died after consuming the complete Book of Kings.”Anne Fadiman. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)**ON BOOK REVIEWERS”Nothing but a bunch of ex-obituary writers.” John P.Continue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA
**”We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.” Will Rogers**AN AMERICAN OLD WEST OUTLAWJohn Peters Ringo (May 3, 1850 – July 13, 1882) was an American Old West outlaw loosely associated with the Cochise County Cowboys in frontier boomtown Tombstone, Arizona Territory. He tookContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA”
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