Karl Kruger: Stand Up Paddleboard (Article from June 2017 DC) There’s a new word in the language this week. It is ‘Kruger,’ a noun, meaning an accomplishment commonly considered to be physically impossible—done with style, alone, in a big landscape. A Kruger is in the realm of free climbing El […]
What’s up with all these people not shoveling out their fire hydrants? Shoveling the closest fire hydrant to your house takes a couple minutes when the snow is soft. If a house catches fire, and snow like this has frozen hard, and it costs the Fire Department even a minute […]
The neighborhood hoarder Part 1. Introduction: So, you’re living in the long shadow of a hoarder’s house with never a bit of maintenance on the outside in twenty years. No paint. Gutters fallen off. Yard full of dead cars, old tires, an unplugged freezer with God-knows-what in it. Moss, bushes […]
The neighborhood hoarder Part 2. The Players: Owner, Leader, Neighbors, The City, Saboteurs working against you The Owner: The first and most important thing in doing a clean-up is, you have to get the owner’s permission. And get it in writing. Without that, you’re nowhere. For good reasons, private property […]
Neighborhood hoarder Part 3. The Clean-up Organization: Once we got permission to clean up, we simply went over and dove in. No firm plan, no set schedule. We have about 18 hours of daylight in mid-June so helpers could carry on long before, or after, the regular work day as […]
The neighborhood hoarder Part 4. Junk Car round-up “We break in to cars when we gotta. With pickaxe and hammer and saw. They say this garage has no license, yet it’s little care I for the law. Ta me weigh hey tow it away, the Lincoln Park Pirates are we, […]
The neighborhood hoarder Part 5. Landscaping Satisfying as it was to clean up the junk and cars. A little bit of landscaping after was like one of those makeovers you see where they give a street person a shave and haircut and turns him into cover material for Gentleman’s Quarterly. […]
The neighborhood hoarder Part 6. Maintaining the groove and breaking into cars During the clean-up someone raised the question, “What’s to stop it from going back to the way it was?” My thought was that it wouldn’t happen. Almost none of the stuff in the yard had been Dave’s. […]
What do you make of a famous chef, teaching a ‘Master Class’ in identifying and preparing seafood, who doesn’t know the difference between a wild Alaska king salmon and a pen-raised, fish farm Atlantic salmon? I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt. If he does know, he’s less than […]
Top Black Racists of 2020: The WAZ Awards Introduction Without television, radio, cell phone, newspaper (except obituaries and the funnies three days a week), or social media, by the time what they call news in the Lower 48 percolates through more than twenty degrees of latitude to some of us […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards Winner number one is Monica Cannon-Grant, a black ‘community activist,’ organizer in political campaigns for Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Joseph Kennedy III, and other famous names in Massachusetts politics. Our WAZ researcher who drew the short straw for Monica was Sven Johansson. Occupation: Commercial […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards Winner Number 2. Black Lives Matter *Note to all four people who might stumble across this page and start to read it. The WAZ committee, at the risk of being called condescending old white men, has voted to endorse a few simple, modest, […]