Jack and Nellie came to Florida to live out their days, craving sun and warmth, needing to be near the sea and palms. Yet Southern Florida was no glue factory for the elderly. It was being vigorously reclaimed by Americans born at the turn of the century who had just reached retirement. They fled cold Northern cities. Active “senior citizens,” a generation of sexy, young, freshly retired couples in their 60s ready to cha-cha. They were hungry for those tans, golf courses, to let their career-worn bodies soak up wholesome entertainment at the Diplomat and Fountainbleau...
"Come to Papa" by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it at Black Cracker Online.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Vanina Marsot in Berlin
(click image to enlarge)view from the Berliner Dom
copyright © 2009 Vanina Marsot
Click here to order your copy of Vanina Marsot's new book, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Carl Ballantine, R.I.P.
reprinted from 21 April 2008:
The Amazing Mr. Ballantine
Carl Ballantine, late of The Ed Sullivan Show, McHale’s Navy and at least one episode of every television show ever made, recently made the latest in a long line of special guest appearances, this time at Skylight Books in Los Feliz. The occasion was a book signing to promote Drew Friedman's new collection, More Old Jewish Comedians, which features a fantastic Friedman portrait of Ballantine, among others.
Carl Ballantine turns a page.
copyright © 2008, 2009 Wyatt Doyle
The Amazing Mr. Ballantine
Carl Ballantine, late of The Ed Sullivan Show, McHale’s Navy and at least one episode of every television show ever made, recently made the latest in a long line of special guest appearances, this time at Skylight Books in Los Feliz. The occasion was a book signing to promote Drew Friedman's new collection, More Old Jewish Comedians, which features a fantastic Friedman portrait of Ballantine, among others.
After a Q&A with Friedman, moderator Ben Schwartz asked the crowd if there were any additional questions.
“Yeah,” called Ballantine from his folding chair in the audience. “When is this gonna be over so I can get something to eat?”
Carl Ballantine turns a page.copyright © 2008, 2009 Wyatt Doyle
Monday, November 2, 2009
Josh Alan Friedman's Hot Type
...Thomas felt it his civic duty to embarrass the culprits of his crime-infested ghetto across the river in Illinois, even devoting headline coverage to beer guzzlers busted for urinating on the sidewalk. Also among the East St. Louis demimonde were model citizen advertisers, like Dr. H.B. Woolcock, a spiritual healer (that’s Voodoo, of course) from the West Indies, who got rid of the “jinks” and cured women’s “lost nature”... Another weekly ad was for Garo’s fish restaurant—where the honeycomb tripe was so soft, you could “leave your teeth at home.”
"The Evening Whirl" - an appreciation by Josh Alan Friedman.
Click here to read it at Black Cracker Online.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
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