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Snobbery and the True King Corn
Autumn is coming and with it: movies at home. And so, we thought it appropriate to republish this article on the perfect movie treat first seen here in 2009. Enjoy! No person can be highbrow in every arena of life and culture, even with the oldest old money in the world and the Gold Coastiest Gold Coast mansion in New York. There will be at least one aspect of life into which your tastes fall into the shunned ...
Can Anyone Make Me Less "Miserables?"
The more I go over it, the more I’m torn on how to react. My instinct is to despise and dismiss. But many viewings of the trailer for the new film interpretation of Les Miserables - due out Christmas 2012 - force a more considered analysis of my concerns. After hearing Anne Hathaway singing “I Dreamed A Dream,” though I have been a fan since the Princess Diaries, my immediate response was to see her as a ve...
A Seersucker Manifesto
This article was first published in April of 2011. No more dangerous fabric has ever been woven, washed, and worn in the history of mankind than seersucker. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="326" caption=" "][/caption] Simple yet deadly, this cotton killer has condemned more fellows’ fashionableness than Fidel. (Is there anything less dapper than Castro's garish garb?) Countless gents every spring, ...
Boffo Socko Jaco
This article originally appeared in The Curator November 14, 2008. Let's start like this. Can you name any professional bass guitarists? Mm-hmm. And, how many recordings made by those bass guitarists do you have? Good. Good. If you could name one or two bassists, you have every musician's respect and appreciation. If you could name a few, and own some of their recordings, you have our most sincere admi...
9.08 Christmas Albums Yule Love - Or Your Holiday Cheer Back
So this is Christmas; well, almost. It’s the weekend after Thanksgiving as I type. But for me, and everyone except Starbucks (for whom the Christmas/unoffensive-nebulous-holiday season began shortly after Labor Day), Black Friday is also Red and Green Friday — the day we start the Christmas tunes a ring-ting-tingling through our iWhatevers. This is a big day — the day I dust off all my Christmas albums...
A Beautiful (whatever that means) Moment
So, there's another contributor to the Curator with whom I share my city of residence. After discovering his views on our fair city (which align with mine down to the last 'y' in Jersey City) I knew that either we would be fast friends should we ever meet, or I have a split personality and am now submitting articles to this magazine under two identities (which, it seems, would be really bizarre as far as split ...
It’s A Wonderful Flight
I wish I could enjoy flying the way my son does. His jaw-dropping, wide-eyed, finger-pointing spirit is unfettered by the procession of nuisance that precedes, co-mingles, and succeeds the actual flying part of flying. It's all miraculous to him. The airport, the trains, the cars, the planes, the monitors, and the baggage trucks are woven together for him like a grand opera. Each of these elements, however insign...
