Raise your glasses . . .
. . . to Jerry Thomas, “the Jupiter Olympus of the bar,” according to “The Bartender Who Started It All”, a story in today’s New Continue reading Raise your glasses . . .
Author Archives: Patrick O'Grady
Thursday’s Poem: Haiku for Ike
A lap full of cat All too soon, it is empty The earth is hungry
Oh, the humanity
From today’s Los Angeles Times coverage of the Southern California wildfires: Rod Percival, 46, coasted his mountain bike down Las Flores Canyon Road, his dog Continue reading Oh, the humanity
Condi Pot calls Vladimir Kettle black
You just can’t make this stuff up. From The Associated Press, under the headline, “Rice worried by Putin’s broad powers,” we learn the following: MOSCOW Continue reading Condi Pot calls Vladimir Kettle black
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Track goddess Marion Jones — surprise surprise — has copped to using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a story in The Washington Post. She won five Continue reading You better run for your life if you can, little girl
The Specter of porn rears its ugly head
Snarlin’ Arlen Specter (R-Twilight Zone) doesn’t know who Jenna Jameson is. Well, actually, he didn’t know who she was, but now he does, because she Continue reading The Specter of porn rears its ugly head
Log-jammin’
Business name of the week: Morning Wood, seen stenciled on the back of a beater Dodge 2WD pickup riding ominously low on its springs today Continue reading Log-jammin’
And now, the good news
You’ll be pleased to learn that cycling isn’t the only sport plagued by lying, cheating sacks of runny owlshit. From The New York Times comes Continue reading And now, the good news
Fear not
Big Jonny has neither been caught up in the Rapture nor sent onward by Christian Soldiers (although rumor has it that he has agreed to Continue reading Fear not
Counterpoint
I must take exception to Big Jonny’s description of my hometown in the vile post below. “Graveyard with lights,” indeed. The actual phrase, as employed Continue reading Counterpoint
Alms for an old ex-leper?
Former New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard, who resigned in disgrace after a dubious relationship with a meth-dealing gay hooker, is at it again. This Continue reading Alms for an old ex-leper?
Shuttlecock(eyed)
Comes the news from The Old Gray Lady that some of NASA’s space cowboys have gone from the right stuff to the good stuff, which Continue reading Shuttlecock(eyed)