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