My publisher has agreed to release my book “The Wit and Wisdom of Fred Ziffle” this Christmas. My indepth research of Ziffel, during 2020 will show he is really a man for our times. At $9.95 this epic read will… Read More ›
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4 Exciting Facts You May Not Know About The Writer, EL BROOKMAN.
#4 While on a raucous night out in his youth in Washington D.C. with some of his buddies, he passed out. They bought a ticket at Union Station and placed him on a train. He woke up half way… Read More ›
ANSWER DISCOVERED 70 years later. Did Rhett Come Back to Scarlet?
My Uncle Jim’s relative, Hugh Gravitt, while driving his Ford taxi, killed Margaret Mitchell as she and her husband John Marsh crossed Peachtree and 14th street in Atlanta Georgia in 1949. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 10 months… Read More ›
The Jock And The Judge: Annapolis’ New Celebrity Royalty.
We all know the jock, Maryland’s favorite son, Baltimore Orioles’ great “The Iron Man” Cal Ripken Jr. When Ripken got his divorce following 30 years of marriage, put his $12 million dollar home in Reisterstown, with a baseball diamond on… Read More ›
A Clean, Well-Lit Room and an Elevator To Escape The “Nada.”
In a Hemingway’s short story he showed the way to escape the pain of the “nada.” In order to survive with dignity, to cheat the “nada,” one has to find a place, a pleasant place, “with the light, a certain… Read More ›
2016 “OLD MY ASS” AWARDS
As the year comes to a close, it is time to honor those who don’t stop pursuing life and actually show age is just a number. #10 (Feb.) Peyton Manning At age 39, became the oldest Quarterback to win a… Read More ›
DANGEROUS PALEFACE
Bob Hope did a movie entitled “Son of Paleface,” about a northern city-slicker, graduate of Harvard, who went out west for the first time and entered a tough, western town on a miniature donkey. There is an establishment… Read More ›
A Year Ago, Merry Citrus, ….Glad To Be Back In Annapolis.
If you shake a snow globe, all the white flakes fall to the bottom. If America was inside a snow globe, the flakes fall to Florida. After shaking my life and downsizing to what would fit in my Santa… Read More ›
EL BROOKMAN Invited to Cathy Mitchell’s House for Thanksgiving Dinner, Dump Turkey, & Dump Trimmings
STOP THE PRESSES….BANNER HEADLINE…CALL ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX NEWS AND ALERT GORDON RAMSEY CATHY MITCHELL recipe queen of DUMP CAKES, DUMP DINNERS HAS INVITED EL BROOKMAN TO HER PLACE FOR THANKSGIVING. Well, she still seems angry, and I do have… Read More ›
DUMP EL BROOKMAN, Recipe Queen Cathy Mitchell adds new book to DUMP CAKES and DUMP DINNERS
Just when I thought the controversy over the whimsical pieces I wrote on DUMP CAKES, DUMP DINNERS, COOKS TAKING A DUMP, and DUMPING DOWN AMERICA was all over, the author of the recipe books and TV pitch-person Cathy Mitchel herself… Read More ›
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