Yesterday, my wife and I went to the nearby Jade Garden Retaurant for lunch . We placed our orders and while we were waiting for them to arrive I glanced at the paper placemat. It was about the Chinese Zodiac and I immediately noticed that one of the zodiac signs had been changed . 2007 was now designated [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Bad News at the Chinese Restaurant
Posted in American Scene, Daily Life, Humor, Observations, Thoughts, Words on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Red Sox- Yankees :Bad Times in Boston
Posted in American Scene, Observations, Sports, Thoughts, Uncategorized on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These are bad times for a sports fan in Boston. First, there was the Bill Belicheck scandal. Now, the hated N.Y. Yankees have put on a late surge to close within 1-1/2 games of the Red Sox with 9 games left. To read the Boston newspapers, both the Sox and their fans are undergoing a crisis of confidence.
The [...]
Crossing the Line
Posted in Culture, Observations, Random, Sports, Thoughts, Uncategorized on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the fiercest rivalry in all of sports is that between the Yankees and the Red Sox. Players from these teams play extra hard when they face each other but what happened the other day in Boston crossed the line and deserves to be condemned.
Shelley Duncan of the Yankees signed an autograph for a ten [...]
The Hawaiian Mixed Plate
Posted in American Scene, Food, Random, Travel, Uncategorized on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The origin of the Hawaiian Mixed Plate is as charming as it is interesting.
When the sugar plantations and pineapple plantations were being developed in Hawaii towards the end of the 19th century, large numbers of foreign laborers were imported to do the back breaking work. Chinese , Japanese, Filipino and Korean workers toiled side by side [...]
The Most Dominant Athlete of All
Posted in Random, Sports, Thoughts, Uncategorized on September 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Scoop Jackson has a fine article about the dominance of Roger Federer. Click on the following link :
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/070910
It’s interesting to see the athletes that Federer is compared to : Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Pele, Muhammad Ali . Certainly all of these were dominant in their time [...]
The Triumph of the Thriller
Posted in Random, Thoughts, books on September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the past, thrillers were considered the poor cousins of “real literature”. In his tour de force,” The Triumph of the Thriller“, Patrick Anderson submits that, while this may have been true fifty years ago, thrillers have increased in complexity and sophistication and are no longer an inferior branch of fiction.
Anderson is certainly qualified to voice his [...]
Serena & Venus & Jimmy & John & Arthur
Posted in American Scene, Observations, Random, Sports, Thoughts, Uncategorized on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When possible, I root for fellow Americans but I don’t think I’ll ever root for either of the Williams sisters again. Not after their crass behavior following losses at the U.S. Open . The following article in the Hartford Courant perfectly expresses what I feel.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.courant.com/sports/other/hc-jeffcol0908.artsep08,0,5776565.column
Back in 1972, Arthur [...]
Reincarnation and Karma… A novel explanation
Posted in American Scene, Culture, Life, Observations, Random, Thoughts, Uncategorized on September 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
AARP ( American Assosciation of Retired Persons ) polled 1011 people ,age 50 and over, to learn what Americans in the second half of life think about life after death. The results were published in the Sept/Oct issue of the AARP magazine and they make interesting reading.
Some of the results : 94% believe in God ;86% [...]
A Perfect Weekend in Boston
Posted in American Scene, Random, Travel, Uncategorized on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the Labor Day weekend in Boston and what a perfect weekend it was. Our primary purpose was to drop off our son at Harvard Business School but, once we had seen him settled in, we took in the sights of Boston, not having been there since eight years ago when our neice was [...]
