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• A Clean, Well-Lit Room and an Elevator To Escape The “Nada.”

  By elbrookman on May 31, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  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

  By elbrookman on November 27, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Cool Hand Trump: “I Can Eat Fifty Eggs.”

  By elbrookman on April 3, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

         In the opening scene of the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman’s character is seen cutting the heads off a small town’s parking meters, destroying two long rows of bureaucratic parking slot machines with no payout. It… Read More ›

• DANGEROUS PALEFACE

  By elbrookman on February 5, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

     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.

  By elbrookman on December 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

       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 ›

• Confirming “Friend Requests” on Facebook

  By elbrookman on December 4, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  Sometimes I hit “confirm friend request” on Facebook and accept invitations from people whose names I don’t know…..Maybe I should be more careful…. I meet and run across a lot of people and some who just enjoy reading me…..but others… Read More ›

• EL BROOKMAN Invited to Cathy Mitchell’s House for Thanksgiving Dinner, Dump Turkey, & Dump Trimmings

  By elbrookman on November 12, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  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

  By elbrookman on November 3, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• Dumping Down America

  By elbrookman on October 16, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

    But wait! Have you seen the commercial for selling recipes for Dump Dinners and Dump Deserts? Make no mistake, this is a very hot marketing trend.  Were you excited to see the lady throwing food in one pan and… Read More ›

• America Has Been Transformed Into A Pollock Painting

  By elbrookman on August 28, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  America has been transformed into a Jackson Pollock painting. Never thought that President Obama meant for this to happen when he said he was going to transform America. It was the “HOPE” or “CHANGE” poster showing his likeness as the… Read More ›

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