Category Archives: fights

Dogs In Heaven

The Happiness of a Vespa

“Riding a Vespa is like having sex with a transvestite. It’s a lot of fun until one of your friends see you doing it.” Of course it’s always fun if you have a naked girl riding behind you. That wasn’t the case in the summer of 1966, when I rode on the back of a […]

Silent as a Bullet

Two days ago gunman in Iraq assassinated a police colonel,army colonel, two police commissioners, a traffic police colonel, and a municipal official within a two hour span. The weapon of choice – a pistol with a silencer. No one saw or heard anything. The Western media was quick to report that these killings were the […]

THE FIGHTER

Christmas Day my nephew took my sister to see THE FIGHTER at the Dedham theaters. Her daughter and new boyfriend accompanied them to the show. Her husband and I bailed on the excursion to the newly-constructed multiplex. Neither of us liked crowds of popcorn eaters and the feel of sticky floors on our shoes. We […]

Arturo Gatti vs Mickey Ward