Monday, February 28, 2011
I WRITE therefore I AM
ACADEMY A-BOREDS
OK, FATIMA, LETS PUT ON OUR JEANS AND GO SHOPPING
Saturday, February 26, 2011
SWEET 19
NOW THAT I'VE GOT YOUR ATTENTION
Thursday, February 24, 2011
ANOTHER PIZZA PLEASE
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The VICTIMS WERE VERY CAREFUL
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — They were four adventure seekers who loved the sea and wanted to see the world. Friends said they were meticulous and planned for any dangers, but even that couldn't prepare them for the Somali pirates who stormed their yacht and took their lives.
The boat's owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, along with Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle, were shot to death early Tuesday, after pirates took them hostage on Friday about several hundred miles south of Oman.
Macay's niece, Nina Crossland, told reporters Tuesday that her aunt was "a very smart and avid sailor."
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU...BUT...this is a complete non-starter for me. To call people careful when they chose to travel alone (at the time) in a region controlled by Somali Pirates...is nonsense. It would be like saying Roy was careful when he played with Tigers. Puleeeze.
BOB KATZ
WHAT WOULD MARY DO?
Monday, February 21, 2011
HOI POLOI
Hoi polloi is an Ancient Greek expression meaning "the many", or in the strictest sense, "the majority". It is used in English to denote "the masses" or "the people", usually in a derogatory sense. Synonyms for "hoi polloi" include "... commoners, great unwashed, minions, multitude, plebeians, proletariat, rank and file, Riff Raff, the common people, the herd, the many, the plebs, the proles, the peons, the working class".
This is one of the most MISUSED words in the English language. Most people use it to mean the exact opposite of its real meaning. Often someone will say... "I am not dressed well enough to go out to that fancy place with the Hoi Poloi."
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Wastin' Away in MARGARITAVILLE
Saturday, February 19, 2011
FUNDRAISER for the HANDICAPPED
CHEESEBURGER in PARADISE
Medium rare with mustard 'be nice
Heaven on earth with an onion slice
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise
I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well good god almighty which way do I steer for my
Cheeseburger in paradise
I really enjoy one from time to time even though there are things that are healthier for me. Probably because I am getting older and some of my friends are no longer growing older or are getting sick with heart disease and similar ailments... in keeping with the "Better late than never" philosophy, which is supported by more than one medical author who says you can reverse years of bad food and lifestyle choices by cleaning up your act NOW.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Something Natural in Sarasota
I am sitting here on a park bench at the Field Club in Sarasota looking at my house across the water. It is a beautiful sunny day with a few billowy clouds overhead. It is 74 degrees. I stopped off at the Publix Supermarket deli on the way over here and bought a sandwich similar to the one I would have ordered at Something Natural in Nantucket. Boar's Head turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, spicy mustard, and Swiss cheese on a whole grain roll. Not only does the taste bring me back to Cliff Road on Nantucket but the weather and the serenity of this outdoor picnic area as well. I took out my iPhone, snapped a couple of pictures and wrote this. Tomorrow I am going to the beach. Probably stop at Anna's Sandwich Shop first.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
POMONA, The Restaurant
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF DENIAL
In medicine we look at a bunch of symptoms, physical findings, lab and x-ray results, and decide if a person is suffering from a particular disease, and then we prescribe treatment based upon what worked in the past in similar if not identical situations.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
I AM NOT SO SURE
The absolute only thing I know for sure is that almost everything I know is either wrong or only right by accident. Anyone with even the slightest sense of history knows that at one time we believed that the Earth was flat, sitting in a wheelchair out in the fresh air with a blanket in your lap at a sanitarium can cure Polio or Tuberculosis, and witchcraft can be stamped out by the judicious use of the ducking stool. As a member of the medical profession, I must conclude that everything we know for sure today will be considered abject BS in a few decades and perhaps, retrospectively, barbaric torture.
There was a time when the term Exploratory Laparotomy was commonplace. This is a surgical procedure in which a surgeon opened up your abdomen with a big incision so he could see if there was anything wrong inside. Today we use MRI or CT scan or at worst laparoscopy through small puncture wounds. Someday in the not too distant future we will have a device that sees inside you without exposure to radiation, and shows details of anatomy almost as clearly as this young lady's dress, which will be interpreted by a computer, a treatment will be recommended and delivered at more or less the same time, and you can go back to playing tennis that afternoon. Alternatively, I don’t know what I am talking about and 100 years from now we will not have made much medical progress but at least everyone will have insurance that covers 100 year old technology.
Getting back to the one thing I am certain about, I desperately argued for a polarized point of view today about young people and how they dress. I was on one side and other family members were on the other and the desperate need came over me to be right and to convince them that they were wrong… for the following 27 reasons. Looking back, not only was I probably wrong, but they probably were too. To add insult to injury, not a single young person on the planet was aware of our discussion nor did they change anything as a result. Hence, wasted energy, or as Shakespeare would say “Much Ado About Nothing.”
Next time you are tempted to pontificate on anything, take a couple of deep breaths, pour yourself a glass of wine, sit in an easy chair, take a sip, close your eyes and visualize George Clooney (for the women) or Katy Perry (for the men) and chilax. I could be wrong about this too, but I am willing to take the chance. Scientific advancement depends on it.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND....
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
MORTALITY
Friday, February 4, 2011
Where is the HAZMAT team?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Happy Birthday, Dear ORACLE
HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD...
SO IT IS WRITTEN
TREND SETTER
I'm WILD about FLOWERS
And why are you anxious about what to wear? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they
spin. And yet I say to you, that even Solomon in all his glory
is not arrayed like one of these.
- Matthew 6:28-29
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.