I imagined it would go like this:
He was late. I was dressed up. Sorta. Clean jeans. Hair down. He came into the restaurant – linen table cloths, candles, no salt, no pepper on the table ’cause the chef knew the food’d be just right. He spotted me, came over, a sea of apologies that quickly [...]
I stay late to avoid traffic. If I leave after 7:30, traffic may be slow going, but at least it doesn’t come to a complete standstill.
Tuesday last, it was about 8. I scooped up my left over lunch and left the office. Belted myself in for what should at that hour be a 20-minute breeze [...]
Listen,
all creeping things -
the bell of transience.
- Issa
It was not wise to go back. You could have warned me. But he wanted to know how to care for the grapevine. And potted plants had been placed on the stoop. That was reassurance.
I could not assume the new people would take up the [...]
Bob Fosse made five films between 1968 and 1973. The first, Sweet Charity, he had directed and choreographed on the Broadway stage in 1966. Fosse won his fifth Tony Award for the choreography of this show, which starred his wife, Gwen Verdon. I was surprised to learn that the book by Neil Simon was based [...]
There’s nothing the English like better than a good murder mystery. We have produced the kings and queens of the genre from Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers to Ruth Rendell, P.D. James and Dick Francis. In fact, on Amazon there is a sub-category of British Detectives. We are also [...]