As the years fly past and 2020 eeks by, we lose people and parts of our childhood and formative years. A few years back, it was open season on all of my music heroes from a bygone era. David Bowie. Tom Petty. Prince. Tough days and with the recent passing of Eddie Van Halen, the […]
Wow, what a week it’s been. A short composite of the entire of 2020, this week saw the high’s, for me, with a World Series championship for my beloved Dodgers and the low’s (although maybe high) of the election. My comment on the election is not a Hurray or Nay for whomever wins or won […]
In my time in southern California, I’ve run amongst crowds that could be considered famous. I made an Arnold Palmer for Arnold Palmer; I bore witness to Jean Claude God Damme being 86’d from three different bars (before he entered); I saw Keanu ask to be called by his Matrix name (Here’s your porterhouse… Neo) […]
I remember watching a Dodger game with my buddy, Veggie, probably a decade ago and as he and I moaned at another blown save (Jonathon Broxton, yuk) a female co-worker asked us, what was the deal with baseball. She didn’t and couldn’t understand it. My response? “It’s about Fathers and Sons.” She nodded in agreement […]
Good morning, loyal readers as I give you this week’s The Odds and The Ends. What a crazy week, month and year it has been but at least, for Angelino sports, it’s coming up roses. Very rarely do cities have it where all of their sports teams are good. Boston had a terrific run with […]
Moments and places in time are inextricable from another as we chase through this life we lead. Every period or era of my life I relate to a particular establishment; some eras have many places but there is always that one spot that is my hub. My dwindling years at Bowling Green I relate to […]
This week, I’ll be starting a new format to integrate my readers a little more. I will introduce a weekly Bartender of the Week, of which I would ask you all to submit, via Facebook Messenger, your favorite bartender with a picture and the stats as I display today. I will also have a Culinary […]
In the canon of my stories, tales of my romantic past are bound to come to light. I have been often referred as ‘charming’ by one person and an ‘idiot’ by another within the span of three minutes. I prefer the term, ‘Idiotically Charming,’ and depending on the situation, idiot more often than not takes […]
“I’m going to outrun the BB gun!” That’s the sentence I walked into that long ago August night in 1997. To celebrate the birthday of my friend, Cotton Phillips, I relate the tale of a night dark and dreary. A tale of foolishness, fun, sorta bravery and excellent marksmanship. Summer school at Bowling Green State […]
I begin today by introducing a new genre of my writing. As the headline reads, it’s titled ‘Great Moments with my Dad.’ There have been many great moments, in fact more than any other father and son combo have probably encountered. Since my dad retired in 2008, he has lived with me in the South […]
Where the 91 Ends 