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The thing Tiger Woods has had going for him his whole life is that he is young. He was young when he played golf with Bob Hope on TV, he was young when he won the U.S. Amateur, he was … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
When you’re a year and a half old and Christmas rolls around, it’s pretty much Nirvana from the word go. Presents, food, everyone doting on you… this is what my son got to experience, and it was pretty fun for … Continue reading
Merry Christmas, everyone! Yes, we’ve made it to the most joyous day of the year. As we call it around here… Division-Clinching Title Saturday Eve!
There are three Christmas movies that stand out above all others and must be watched each year in the days leading up to the big day. They are: Home Alone (now 25 years old… wow), A Christmas Story, and It’s … Continue reading
Pretty much every commercial recording artist over the past 60 years or so has produced at least one album of Christmas music. Some are pretty good. Some are pretty terrible. But there are three that stand out for me above … Continue reading
Of the literally thousands of holiday-themed TV sit-com episodes produced through the years there are half a dozen that stand out for me above all others and must be watched every December. Otherwise Christmas doesn’t really come. Four of these … Continue reading
Kudos to the writers of Fargo’s Season Two finale which aired Monday on FX. It was the writing more than anything which had me hooked, and kept me from saying “great series, bad finale,” as I often do. No, Fargo … Continue reading
Up and down the east coast yesterday and today we’re experiencing some very un-Decemberlike temperatures, no doubt pleasing many and positively alarming others. Politics aside and objectively speaking, I saw yesterday’s weather as neither good nor bad, but merely a … Continue reading
One of America’s greatest icons would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. I hesitate to say musical icons or performing icons or acting icons, because such adjectives barely scratch the surface of who Frank Sinatra was and what he still … Continue reading
It was 50 years ago this evening that audiences were first treated to an instant classic: A Charlie Brown Christmas. No TV special is more synonymous with any holiday than the Peanuts gang and its jazzy romp through the ups and … Continue reading