Monthly Archives: May 2008
Ball point pen on paper napkin Robert Mondavi passed away yesterday in his home in Napa Valley. He was 94. My Grandfather Roibal was an amateur wine maker. He immigrated from Spain in the 1930's and settled in New Jersey. Visiting his home as a boy was what I imagined it would be like to go to Europe. Even though he lived in the city of Newark, his back yard was covered with trellises filled with ripening grapes. His cellar, where he made his wine, was a cool, damp place to escape the summer heat. The stone walls and cement floors, having absorbed the years of his toil, gave off the unmistakable oder of wine making. His equipment for mashing and grinding the grapes looked like it belonged in a medieval torture chamber, and large oak barrels in a line held the fruits of his labor. He would give us kids a sip from a tin cup that he had hanging on a nail. He'd wipe it out with a rag bef ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Modern Artist, Robert Rauschenberg died at his home in Florida, He was 82. He said of himself that he worked in the gap between art and life. He saw no medium - from painting and collage to photography, printmaking, stage design and performance - as beyond his artistic reach. He even was convinced by a group of Art Students turned musicians to do an album cover that won a Grammy Award for best packaging. Album cover for Talking Heads, Speaking In Tongues ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Saturday Night Live alumni Jimmy Fallon will replace fellow SNL alumni Conan O'Brien on Late Night when Conan moves over to Tonight and Leno is forced out. I guess NBC executive Lorne Michaels thinks the formerly not ready for prime timers are ready, but I'm not sure even Fallon agrees. At the Press conference Fallon said to Michaels "You started my career, you might as well end it." ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning, somewhat wet, newsprint (raining here in NJ) We talk about elections in the US using war metaphors, battleground states, fight to the end, war room strategies, but in Lebanon they do more than talk. Hizbullah is an opposition party. It's leader, Nasrallah claimed this week that recent crack downs by the Lebanese government were a declaration of war and Shiite gunman have taken to the streets of Beirut with automatic weapons and grenade rocket launchers. Kind of puts things in perspective.. While our election process seems to go on for ever and is sometimes contentious, eventually there will be a winner and a peaceful transition to a new administration. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint The grocery store's the super mart, uh huh Gasoline prices break your heart, uh huh And men still keep on marching off to war 200 points down on the floor and The beat goes on, the beat goes on La de da de de, la de da de da Ball point pen on the morning newsprint ...
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