The world lost a wonderful musical talent Sunday night. Jeff Healey finally succumbed to the cancer with which he had fought his entire life. He was 41 years old. Many of my generation will surely remember Angel Eyes (embedding of the video disabled, else I’d do so). If you’d like to post comments about Jeff, […]
Between the time I left the Army in March of 94 and the time I got married in June of 99, I moved fairly often. As best as I can figure, I moved 14 times in those five years. I lived alone for only two months in that period. The rest of the time I […]
On Friday, I found that Juno was still playing at Joong Ang theater near Myeong Dong. Not one of my favorite theaters. They still have the old style Korean snack bars, where you can buy things like small canned drinks and squid jerky rather than popcorn and hot dogs. And the cinemas are really, really […]
So I thought the snow had stopped early yesterday evening. My wife and I were holed up in the house, glued to season 3 of Lost and didn’t realize the snow had started up again. When I took our dog Charlie out around midnight, I found the light dusting we had seen earlier had gotten […]
Saturday night I attended a gathering of friends in Itaewon for a few hours. One of them I hadn’t seen in over 4 years (great to see you again Sam!). I kept the beers to a minimum and made it home quite early and quite sober. It was a good time all around and we […]