April is National Poetry Month. Back in the day (high school and college), I fancied myself a poet. Reading most of my work today, I wonder what I was thinking. But hey, creativity is still creativity, no matter how mediocre, no? (And believe me, most of those poems were mediocre at best.) I'm not one of …
Challenge-ing
Yesterday started the 2010 90-Day Challenge at Tiger Schulmann's Mixed Martial Arts (http://tsk.com/index.php). Why is this important? Well, let me tell ya.... Last year, the 90-Day Challenge was very, very good to me. For background, I started training at TSMAA in late Summer of 2008, at the Great Neck school under Sensei Johnson, having enrolled …
En-taaaa!
Had the good fortune the other night, thanks to Turner Classic Movie's awesome 31 Days of Oscar programming, to re-watch The Sunshine Boys. Written by Neil Simon and starring Walter Matthau and George Burns for those not in the know. Man oh man, Walter Matthau is fantastic. I think it takes a great actor to …
Now, the next step’s a little tricky
Well, it's always been the intention to keep this blog updated at the very least a couple of times a week. But, the best laid plans of mice and men..... It's also been my intention all along to have every post header be a line from The Great Escape (of course) to tie in with …
The list is almost endless
OK, let's get crackin. I'm not the type of guy who is going to get into scholarly discussions about film. (For something like that, done much better than I ever could, check out the awesome Bradley On Film) Or the type who is creative with a lot of uber-cool graphics (for that, see Ichiban Weapon …
This blog is dedicated to the fifty…
Coming soon to this space: musings and missives about The Great Escape, sound bites, movies of all sizes, and more dronings. betcha can't wait with that stellar intro.
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