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 ›
EL BROOKMAN
The Hidden Message on the Pieta
I want you to think about a large piece of marble weighing around 9000 pounds. A man was contracted to produce a work for a Cardinal in the church in 1498 and complete it by 1499. He was twenty-four and… Read More ›
Making America Gr-r-reat!
President Trump is President Tony-the-Tiger, making America Gr-r-reat again and everything is Gr-r-reat! You just can’t spell “gr-r-reat” this way without lots of red lines created by auto correct in Word Perfect. No doubt about it, I accept Trump… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Cool Hand Trump: “I Can Eat Fifty Eggs.”
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 ›
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 ›
Dumping Down America
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 ›
Small Towns, Big Hearts
Today, it seems we Americans are gawkers. We have stumbled on this wreck of our leadership, the economy, lack of secure boarders, growing poverty, unemployment, inept Obamacare, the mismanagement of leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, and worry about the future. As… Read More ›
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