Monthly Archives: October 2007

Jack Palance Estate Auction

October 26, 2007

At age seventy-two, celebrating his Oscar for best supporting actor in City Slickers, Jack Palance launched himself onto the Academy Awards stage and cranked out several one-armed pushups.  I’d been proud to do those in my twenties.  Afterward, the two-armed variety was challenging enough, and before age forty I altogether abandoned the exercise as a [...]

Posted in Jack Palance, Movies

Woman Still Seeks the Right Church

October 17, 2007

I didn’t know where to look.  From first grade I’d gone to a Catholic church.  It was very routine and boring with all the kneeling and standing while priests mumbled and hissed things not related to daily life.  At confession once a month I felt they were snobby and not approachable, especially when I told [...]

Posted in Religion

A Book about the Talented but Tragic Rogers Family

October 11, 2007

Early this year I received an email from freelance writer Sean Harvey, who’d read my 2005 article about Donald Rogers, the college and pro football star and a champion in every sport he tried.  Of course, I told him.  I’d be delighted to reminisce about a man as memorable for personal appeal as his athletic [...]

Posted in Alcohol, Cocaine, Depression, Donald Rogers, Drugs, Football, Mental Health, Reggie Rogers

Vincent Brothers is Condemned by his Daughter – Part 9

October 5, 2007

“Vincent Brothers Mass Murder Trial” is now available as an electronic book for $0.99.
To read an excerpt, please click here

Posted in Murder, Vincent Brothers

Ahmadinejad and Bush Spar at the United Nations

October 3, 2007

In a startling (and heretofore unreported) miscalculation in security planning last week at the United Nations in New York, secret service agents led a rapidly-departing President George W. Bush right into the exit path of the man he most loves to talk about but least wants to talk to, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.
President Bush [...]

Posted in George W. Bush, Holocaust, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, Terrorism, United Nations