I have Willie Stargell in action figure form, posing in front of my blog entries under construction. I’m not a big collector of any kind of action figures, but when your boyhood idol comes out in the Kenner 4-inch form factor, sometimes you have to bend the rules. And now Stargell’s batting [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2005
Give The Devil His Due (and his Mizunos)
While shopping for sneakers at the local Dick’s Sporting Goods, my 11-year old son had a life experience that imitated my writing the hagiography of Saint Patrik. With my wife supervising the sneaker outfitting, she noticed a six-foot plus tall man, with long blond hair, asking my son if he liked a [...]
In Search of Dunkies
I like my Dunkin’ Donuts coffee every morning, sometimes in the afternoon, always on an evening road trip (but, to quote Steve Martin, never at dusk). I’m not a coffee snob; I like iced black Dunkies coffee. This poses something of a problem on road trips, in that the Dunkies density [...]
