We’d like to thank Samantha for the following story. It was a cold January Friday and a few of my best friends from the College of Charleston were in town to share my birthday and a sorority sister’s at the same time, a yearly ritual. After trying to score a last minute reservation at any […]
Summer 1985: Martha’s Vineyard
We’d like to thank Holly for the following story. I was working as a waitress at a place that was half-deli/half- restaurant, so the wait staff used deli containers (the kind that potato salad comes in) instead of glasses to save the dishwashers work. So this one time, I’m chugging my first Coke of the […]
Palisades-Sparkill Baseball League
We’d like to thank Elliot for the following story. Growing up in the Palisades area of Rockland County, New York it was wasn’t unusual to see Bill Murray once in a while, as he was a resident. I think I ran into him a few times at the post office and in Piermont walking around. […]
Bill Murray Eats Chips on an English Beach
We’d like to thank Sonny for the following story. Every time business takes me to the English seaside town of Brighton, I always make sure I have time to take a walk on the pier. I do this, so I can buy a bag of chips (French fries) and eat them, sitting on a deckchair, […]
In Bad Grund Filming “Monuments Men”
On May 5, 2013, an acquaintance took me along to a set visit of George Clooney’s “The Monuments Men” in Bad Grund, the Harz Mountains in Germany. As my acquaintance is a so-called “Oscar blogger”, writing about films with high Oscar potential, he was actually invited and pampered, and, as his company, I was greatly […]