Category Archives: England

Britain Go Home

March 6, 2011 – 6:36 pm

I’m a peaceful drinker. My local on Fulham Street is only two blocks from my atelier. The regulars have accepted as one of them rather than ‘one of Them’. The core of the bar numbers about ten. We converse about racism, neighborhood change, Mississippi cops, the Celtics, Knicks, Prince versus Michael Jackson, food, and pretty […]

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Assholes on Holiday

March 6, 2011 – 6:01 pm

TripAdvisor.com surveyed thousands of European tourists to discover that the British holiday-maker is more devoted to drink than any other nationality. Almost two-thirds consume more alcohol away from home. Italians won the gold for smoking and the French championed care-free tanning habits and scored the most for traveling to foreign destination to receive plastic surgery. […]

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Her Royal Humbug

October 21, 2010 – 5:14 pm

Ebenezer Scrooge infamously declared his opinion of Christmas in Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL with the immortal words, “Bah humbug.” Typically portrayed as a banker, loan shark or lawyer, Scrooge’s name is synonymous with miserdom, although Queen Elizabeth II entered the anti-holiday ‘bah humbug’ by canceling Buckingham Palace’s annual Christmas party. The event was paid […]

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Adios Los Falklands

October 21, 2010 – 2:53 pm

Los Islas Malvindas are 250 nautical miles from the Argentinean Coast. The distance between Port Stanley and London is approximately 8000 miles. My friend, Vanessa, represented the Falklanders in the UN. Her duties required two annual trips to that remote South Atlantic archipelego. The voyage was a grueling 40 hours from New York via Chile, […]

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