Category: Odds & Ends

I missed the news that Robert Merrill died last Saturday at the age of 87.
He was one of the greatest baritones of all time. Here’s an appreciation.

Can I hear from visitors to this blog if the flu shot shortage is a concern to them? I’m having trouble understanding the whole bruhaha around the shortage, Dick Cheney getting a shot, shot lotteries, etc.

This could be the worst newspaper sentence I’ve ever read.
The Curse of the Bambino, that amalgam of jinx, superstition and despair that has dogged the Boston Red Sox for nearly a century, was reduced to just so much human imagining on Wednesday night by a scruffy lot of ballplayers who cared more about their hair than they did about history, except for the kind they were determined to make.
And you might be surprised from whence it comes.

In Eagle Pass, Texas, Border Patrol agents found a five-foot figure of our Lord washed up from the Rio Grande, and devout faithful are welcoming it.

No, it’s not a scene from an Indiana Jones movie or some hip-hop music video.

The Oriental potentate in the pic is the real-life Crown Prince of Brunei with his Swiss-born wife, a commoner, at their wedding service. The pièce de résistance in the bling department is, you’ll note, the “bouquet” of gold and diamonds.