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The Inseide Dope, by Bob Seidenstein

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Doc McHugh, Kookie and I are sitting in Nori’s cafe, with Doc talking about his time in Colorado. Suddenly, he stops talking and stares off into into the distance. “What’s up?” I say. “Colorado,” he says. “What about it?” I say. “I think that’s a Spanish ...

Carny life

In my freshman year of college, I became an existentialist. Or at least I thought I did. See, I was a bit confused since I wasn’t sure what existentialism was. Then again, it seemed neither did anyone else. But since it seemed like the thing to be, what the hey. Existentialism, per se, ...

The long and short of it

I first witnessed Temporal Deceleration in the winter of 1965. If you’ve never heard of Temporal Deceleration, don’t feel bad cuz I just made it up. So what is it? TD is the feeling you have when, due to societal changes, the rest of the world zooms off into the future, leaving ...

Davis and his voices from The Great Beyond

The phone shrieked me awake, jarring me out of my dream of tropical paradise and into the reality of a frigid Adk January morn. I looked at the clock — 0930. What terrorist was invading my dreams and my wool-shrouded lair at this ungodly hour? “Hello,” I mumbled into ...

Cold hard truths

Almost every guy my age knows at least a few things about General J. Pershing. One was he was often referred to as “Black Jack.” Another is he was the commander of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI. A third is he carried pearl-handled pistols. And last, on July 4, 1917, laying a ...

Flying the freaky skies

Last week I wrote about being in NYC and watching Tiny Tim’s wedding on The Johnny Carson Show. As weird as Tiny Tim may have been, my watching the show was even weirder. Or more exactly, while I was watching it I was in one very weird mood. My weirdness had nothing to do with Tiny Tim, ...