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Long may Abraham Lincoln ride the tyrannosaurus!
Showing posts with label 4TH OF JULY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4TH OF JULY. Show all posts
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Monday, July 8, 2019
FOUR DIAGONAL CORNERS
Hope everybody had a great 4th of July weekend. The three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies by the Arizona Diamondbacks this past weekend put me a good mood, baseball-wise.
In that same midsummer spirit, check out my "Four Corners" column, in the July issue of Phoenix Magazine...
...this month exploring the culinary options at four corners of Chase Field.
In that same midsummer spirit, check out my "Four Corners" column, in the July issue of Phoenix Magazine...
...this month exploring the culinary options at four corners of Chase Field.
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Thursday, July 5, 2018
RED, WHITE, BLUE AND GREEN...
Hope everybody had a great 4th of July yesterday! It's a day late, but a friend sent me...
Monster-of-the-Week: ...this week's honoree...
Uncle Frankie wants you!
Monster-of-the-Week: ...this week's honoree...
Uncle Frankie wants you!
Monday, July 2, 2018
FAREWELLISON
Happy July everybody!
Check out the July issue of Phoenix Magazine, now on the stands...
...for my "Four Corners" column on the "wrap" in Valley cuisine. Also check out my reviews, on Phoenix Magazine online, of the films Boundaries and Izzy Gets the F* Out of Town, and my attempt, in these times that demand a patriotism in opposition to our beloved country's Administration, at a patriotic July 4th playlist.
June ended on a sad note: RIP to the irreplaceable Harlan Ellison, passed on last Thursday at 84. I spent the weekend In Memoriam for him. Thursday night I watched his wonderful, dreamlike Outer Limits episode "Demon With a Glass Hand," starring Robert Culp, and also turned up a June 1958 issue of Super-Science Fiction...
...with an early Ellison story called "No Planet is Safe" that I had never read.
On Friday night, my pal Richard showed us a 1964 episode of Burke's Law written by Ellison, in which his self-consciously florid, allusion-studded dialogue was spouted by guest stars like Joan Blondell, Nina Foch and Betty Hutton. Yet for guest star Buster Keaton he ingeniously crafted a silent-comedy bit. Then Saturday I took down my copy of Strange Wine, and sipped from it for the rest of the weekend.
Check out the July issue of Phoenix Magazine, now on the stands...
...for my "Four Corners" column on the "wrap" in Valley cuisine. Also check out my reviews, on Phoenix Magazine online, of the films Boundaries and Izzy Gets the F* Out of Town, and my attempt, in these times that demand a patriotism in opposition to our beloved country's Administration, at a patriotic July 4th playlist.
June ended on a sad note: RIP to the irreplaceable Harlan Ellison, passed on last Thursday at 84. I spent the weekend In Memoriam for him. Thursday night I watched his wonderful, dreamlike Outer Limits episode "Demon With a Glass Hand," starring Robert Culp, and also turned up a June 1958 issue of Super-Science Fiction...
...with an early Ellison story called "No Planet is Safe" that I had never read.
On Friday night, my pal Richard showed us a 1964 episode of Burke's Law written by Ellison, in which his self-consciously florid, allusion-studded dialogue was spouted by guest stars like Joan Blondell, Nina Foch and Betty Hutton. Yet for guest star Buster Keaton he ingeniously crafted a silent-comedy bit. Then Saturday I took down my copy of Strange Wine, and sipped from it for the rest of the weekend.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
TALKING THE TACO
A safe and happy Independence Day to all!
Today also qualifies as a Taco Tuesday, so...
...check out the July issue of Phoenix Magazine for my "Four Corners" column on Valley taco joints. It's on the stands now, or you can read it here.
I really enjoyed chowing my way through this one.
Today also qualifies as a Taco Tuesday, so...
...check out the July issue of Phoenix Magazine for my "Four Corners" column on Valley taco joints. It's on the stands now, or you can read it here.
I really enjoyed chowing my way through this one.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
MINION SOUP
Happy Fourth everybody!
As usual, I suggest a ceremonial viewing of the Star Trek episode “The Omega Glory,” which offers what should be an elementary cautionary moral against fetishizing objects of patriotic regard like the Constitution or the flag, but which all too many in our country need to be reminded of.
Speaking of nerdishness, the other evening The Wife, The Kid and I were cruising down 19th Avenue, when suddenly I began singing the theme song from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory: “Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state…”
“What made you think of that?” The Wife asked.
I gave her a glance.
“Do you have a guess?” I asked, but by then I knew she had traced my thoughts. We were passing a bar called La Pachanga, which had made me think of Sheldon’s catchphrase “Bazenga!” which had made me think of the show.
In other words, The Wife is capable of “ratiocination” on the level of Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin.
RIP to the great and influential Richard Matheson, passed on at 87, and to Jim “Black Belt Jones” Kelly, passed on at 67.
With Despicable Me 2 in theatres…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the honor to this specimen of the voracious purple “evil minions” from the film, seen here in the new policy trailer for AMC Theaters…
Speaking of nerdishness, the other evening The Wife, The Kid and I were cruising down 19th Avenue, when suddenly I began singing the theme song from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory: “Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state…”
“What made you think of that?” The Wife asked.
I gave her a glance.
“Do you have a guess?” I asked, but by then I knew she had traced my thoughts. We were passing a bar called La Pachanga, which had made me think of Sheldon’s catchphrase “Bazenga!” which had made me think of the show.
In other words, The Wife is capable of “ratiocination” on the level of Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin.
RIP to the great and influential Richard Matheson, passed on at 87, and to Jim “Black Belt Jones” Kelly, passed on at 67.
With Despicable Me 2 in theatres…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the honor to this specimen of the voracious purple “evil minions” from the film, seen here in the new policy trailer for AMC Theaters…
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