But Does He Talk Like A Pirate?

September 30th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Uncategorized |

The Sat­ur­day Times had a story about the pirates off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean (a seri­ous prob­lem), though this time the geniuses (pirates) bit off a lit­tle more than they could chew. They hijacked a freighter that turned out the be a mil­i­tary trans­port, include a num­ber of bat­tle tanks. Not […]

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Big Banks Swallow Little Banks

September 29th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Home, Politics |

The two “regional” banks that I do busi­ness with are dis­ap­pear­ing. WaMu, which holds my mort­gage, is dis­ap­pear­ing into J.P. Mor­gan. Wachovia, where I do my reg­u­lar bank­ing, is being forced into CitiGroup’s chilly embrace. It’s a dis­ap­point­ing trend; WaMu and Wachovia always offered great cus­tomer ser­vice. I’d had to do some man­ag­ing of my […]

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Dodge Poetry Festival

September 28th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Books |

The Wood­stock of Amer­i­can poetry hap­pens every two years out in Water­loo Vil­lage, New Jer­sey. Today (Sun­day) is the last of the four days’ worth of events, and yes­ter­day a friend and I jour­neyed out there to hear the after­noon and evening ses­sions. The high­light of the ses­sions for me was hear­ing two-time Poet Laureate […]

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I’ve had it

September 28th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Apolo­gies for the blog being down Sat­ur­day. This is the sec­ond time in as many weeks that my totally use­less host­ing ser­vice has allowed a ser­vice to crash and stay crashed. In the process, I lost one short and one long post I’d writ­ten, plus a few com­ments. I’m really livid about this. I noticed […]

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Touring The Twin Lighthouses

September 24th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

The Twin Light­houses is an his­tor­i­cal land­mark just off of Sandy Hook, NJ. You can climb up one of the light tow­ers and enjoy the view.

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Last Weekend of Summer

September 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

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An Hour Or So With Rick Warren

September 22nd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Sat­ur­day while down in Ocean Grove my week­end com­pan­ion and I had the inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence of hear­ing the well-known MegaChurch preacher speak at the famous Great Audi­to­rium there. Now let me be clear: ordi­nar­ily the thought of going out to hear one of the MegaChurch preach­ers would send me run­ning in the oppo­site direc­tion, fin­gers plugged […]

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Asbury Park

September 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

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Burn After Reading

September 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Movies |

The crit­ics have been all over this movie for some rea­son. We laughed until we cried, so go figure.

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David Foster Wallace

September 19th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Books |

I first stum­bled across his work when I read “Ship­ping out: On the (nearly lethal) com­forts of a lux­ury cruise” in the Jan­u­ary 1996 issue of Harper’s. Harper’s con­tin­ued to pub­lish sev­eral of his essays over the years, such as Ticket to the Fair, a post­mod­ern decon­struc­tion of a mid­west county fair. [sorry, these links […]

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From Main Street to Wall Street (And Back Again)

September 18th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Maybe I’m off base with this, but I sense a cer­tain irony. The equi­ties side of the big finan­cial firms have been reward­ing com­pa­nies for shed­ding jobs and keep­ing pay­rolls low. And now when peo­ple can’t pay their mort­gages and credit-card bills, the bond side of those busi­nesses is caus­ing them to crash and burn themselves.

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Grilled Paella

September 17th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Food |

Paella has been a sta­ple in the cafe­te­ria here at tom​-mcgee​.com world head­quar­ters for over twenty years. Our crack team of chefs has pre­pared it more ways than you can think of, and has it pretty much down to a sci­ence. But the other week when the Times ran a recipe for grilled paella, they […]

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