Nails It!
January 22, 2010
Robert Redford (quoted by Ebert) “Paris Hilton doesn’t have anything to do with anything.”
Author: Tom DeVries
Recovering journalist living in California's Sierra Nevada
Those Good Old Days
January 19, 2010
I am a Good Old Days contemporary and am here to say it wasn’t just no sex. I’m afraid there also wasn’t any dope and and there wasn’t much rock and roll. Teendom in the 50s was a sad darn thing, I’ll tell you. Don’t know how we made it thru. Also, no mobile phones, … More Those Good Old Days
Fair and Balanced
January 19, 2010
Tocqueville wrote of his own journalism: ‘I never gave in to the temptation to tailor facts to ideas rather than to adapt ideas to facts.’ Nice, huh? Wish I could say that myself, but truth is I don’t know very many of us who really can. Sad, huh? (for the quote and a darn good … More Fair and Balanced
Dope for the little ones
January 19, 2010
I’m due to attend a meeting of a non-profit next week. they think I know how to get them in the news and I like what they do. But it reminds me: I was working for a non-profit, doing some movies, and sat in on their Board meeting to make a report or something. Group, … More Dope for the little ones
New World View
January 18, 2010
We did a renovation thing on the apartment by the Bay. Hired a recommended tile guy who turned out to be Cuban. Not his parents or relatives, born there. He sent Michel to lay the stone– and a lovely job too. Michel is from Chile. (Op. cit) The crew that moved the bearing wall so … More New World View
‘K’ for ‘Killer’
May 23, 2009
He was my apartment mate in Chicago when we were both going to school there. Older, wiser, much more sophisticated. John L and I hooked up and agreed to get the place, moved our boxes of stuff in, and I took off for a weekend of fun elsewhere. Sometime during that weekend John’s girlfriend jumped … More ‘K’ for ‘Killer’
Tom DeVries 