BURGER SCOOT

  • The “quest” for my Chamberlain connection

    “The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato–the best part under ground.” – Thomas Overbury Are you related to someone famous; a hero, perhaps? I am! Well, I’m not certain, to be honest. When I was in high school in the 1970s, my father told me that… Read more

  • Observations from the Mat #4: When the inevitable happened

    I’m getting up there in age; things aren’t as tight down there as they used to be (Too much information? If so, the reader should go no further.). Too, while yoga has a way of working out the tight muscles it also has a way of working out other things–like gas. It happens to many… Read more

  • The night Dee Dee Ramone crushed my hand & other perils of getting up close

    Recently I participated in one of those Facebook quizzes. This one was called “Ten live shows one is a lie. Which one?” I had to guess which show my Facebook Friend did not attend. One of the shows this friend wrote as a possible lie was The Ramones. I immediately remembered The Ramones concert I… Read more

  • The Gang of Three’s night out

    The first Wednesday of each month I go out with a gang of guys for dinner, a film, and I like to think fellowship. It’s called Don Pedro, for some reason. It’s a lovely time especially for someone like me who rarely gets out. This month’s event got moved back a week and then–in the… Read more

  • Baseball, booze, and sacrifice zones

    IFC’s  Brockmire IFC‘s new comedy Brockmire is the perfect storm of raw comedy, baseball mythology, rust belt economic depression, chronic substance abuse, corporate malfeasance, desperate sex, and–ultimately–redemption. I can’t get enough of it. And considering there are only eight twenty-two minute shows in this first season, it is very frustrating. Hopefully, IFC will increase the number… Read more

  • No surprise here:

    The pathetic and predictable response from U.S. lawmakers and the corporate media to Trump’s Syria airstrike. I wish I were surprised by the number of U.S. lawmakers that supported President Trump’s airstrike on an air base in Syria, but I am not. While I wasn’t surprised that virtually all GOP lawmakers and most of the… Read more