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 ›
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Grain of Sand
Don’t underestimate your life, Your dreams or your place in history. I know you feel as “just a grain of sand” Among trillions, helpless and caught in just one wave Among trillions crashing onto shores. Life and others will… 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 ›
The Night of Temptation Eyes
My teenage hormones were out of control. Every day I saw my brother Larry come and go in his new, mean-green AMC Javelin. A 343 cubic –inch, four-barrel V8, 280 horsepower machine that went from zero-to-sixty in less than… 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 ›
Noir in a Small, Southern, Florida Town
How could I have known this night would lead to my hyoid twitching from the cold blade of a barber’s razor, and butchery amid the smell of Bolt Barbers Bay Rum? What takes place on a Friday night… 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 ›
When Love Becomes Still-Life
painting by Seana Monaghan Gallagher When Love Becomes Still-Life Nothing is louder than a heart unforgiven, Screaming in the afternoon Among an oil colored room of flowers and drapes While loneliness distills sunlight into a white paste. Without… 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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