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An Old Year’s AWT. The New Decade on its Way.

On 12.15.09, In Aye Wonder Tuesday, By Mike

Another Tuesday, another installment of Aye Wonder Tuesday. Can you take it? We’re running out of Tuesdays in 2009 but there is no shortage of news to talk about. The health care reform bill is making me ill as is Joe Lieberman. I am still confused by the entire climate change issue. The Tiger Woods saga is becoming folkloric. When will this decade end? It’s the decade of bad decisions. That’s what I am calling it, it’s not catchy but it does sum up everything.

Joe Lieberman you’re up first.

☞Joe Lieberman has leaped from #3 to #2 on my 5 least favorite public officials list. (Nancy Pelosi is and always will be #1) Lieberman has once again held the Democrats hostage over a bill that he alone had the ability to stop. The short version of Lieberman’s discretion is this: he wants to remove the Medicare buy-in option for people aged 55-64 that was attached to the new health care bill. I am not saying it was a good idea or a bad one but Lieberman came out in favor of this 3 months ago. It is symptomatic of why things never get done in Washington. Blame the President but the real blame belongs in Congress. By the time a concept goes through the legislative process, it is tagged with more earmarks and appropriations rendering the bill infective at birth. Lieberman recognizes that his vote is vote 60 and as a result can get what ever he wants and played his trump card at the appropriate time. How much longer will the people of Connecticut continue to reelect this democrat/republican/independent pretender?

☞Music, we need music. Since we are at the end of the year, let me introduce you to my favorite song of 2009. Phoenix’ 1901 is what a rock song with a pop overcoat is all about these days, a little synth, a little jangle guitar and a hook that keeps on giving. It is bright and shiny and it’s from France. Have a listen to AWT’s song of the year.

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☞Speaking of music, are you enjoying the upbeat song a day posting? They are moral boosters. Be sure to listen.

☞As mistress #14 steps out of the shadows, Tiger Woods has a new problem. His Canadian doctor is now under FBI investigation for providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs/treatments. According to the New York Times, the doctor made four visits to Woods’ Florida home after Tiger’s knee surgery. Guaranteed the punters are putting 2+2 together to equal 5.

☞More and more people are questioning the climate crisis issue’s validity after thousands of emails were found showing that scientists were fudging data to convince the public and the media. The claim now is that we should just “trust them” because the scientists perpetrated this hoax to get everyone motivated for the inevitable. Admittedly, I don’t know what to think. Will we stop recycling? No. Will we continue to be more observant about waste and our impact in a macro world? Yes. Will ever believe Al Gore again? I never said I did in the first place.

☞This is an age old complaint but there is NOTHING good to watch on television. Now that Californication, Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage have completed their season’s runs, there is nothing to watch. Do you have anything that you would recommend these days?

☞If you live in Boston, there’s a new restaurant you will want to try. Ken Oringer’s newest offering is a wonderful Italian enoteca on Shawmut Avenue in the South End called Coppa. Personally, I love eating like this, a little salumi, some antipasti, a little pasta, a little red wine. It reminds me of another favorite place, Mario Battali’s Lupa in NYC. Coppa is a charming hole-in-the-wall with amazing eats and the height of creativity on the drinks side. Take a look. Get ye to Coppa.

☞Speaking of food, one of the things that I have been doing much more often is cooking. I love to cook and bake. (Who’d a thunk it?) One of the things that got me cooking again is the “light bulb is on” recognition that cooking has a huge knowledge base. I always enjoy a task when I can study, then practice and the final scorecard is the end result. The end results have varied from great to not-so-great but fixing the not-so-greats is the best thing about cooking. We should be so lucky with other things.

☞The AWT quote of the week is from the elder statesman of good advice:

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

So goes another AWT. I hope that this one finds you in good spirit and good health as the holiday season envelops us all.

Aye Wonder. Yes. I do.

What about you?

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Dum Spiro Spero*

On 10.21.09, In Golf, Golf In Scotland, Mind the Gap, Monarchs House, Scotland, St Andrews, By Mike

A week from today, I will arrive in Scotland for the first time in 28 months. I am hoping to play a round of golf but the primary reason for my visit is to bid farewell to our long time general manager, Angus. Angus is retiring and calls my visit the “hand over.” If you’re a long time reader of this blog, you know that a small group of us have a home in St Andrews called Monarchs House that is rented out to golfers making the pilgrimage to the home of golf. Angus has been looking after the house and all the golfing visitors for 8 years.

St Andrews is not like many other places and very far removed from any town in the States. First of all, it is a magnificently beautiful medieval town. Unlike the U.S., there are no signs of wooden structures; everything is built from stone. Throughout the town, there are ruins that tell of the violence of the Reformation in the mid 1500s. St Rules Tower dates back to 1127. St Andrews also is home to Scotland’s first university and the third oldest in the English speaking world, founded in 1413. But it’s not just the history of the town or even the golf that makes me love St Andrews in particular and Scotland in general. I love the way of life, the people and the topography.

St Rules Tower

Recently, after all my years, I finally came to conclusion about why I love where I live and why I love the other places that I visit. There is a commonality in all of the places I gravitate toward. In Boston’s Back Bay, I overlook the Charles River and I am very close to Boston Harbor. I can also walk to anything that could satisfy my needs; food, drink, shopping, entertainment, open spaces and friends. In St Andrews, I am a 2 minutes from any of the beaches and able to walk the entire town and visit its shops and play golf. Here are a few of the other places I love: Plymouth, Sag Harbor, Newport, Marblehead, Savannah, Saucelito, Puerto Banus and San Francisco. All are water centric and all have lovely walkable old towns. Bring me to the mountains, away from water, and I can feel myself silently die.

In St Andrews, I intend on visiting all of my old haunts. They can expect me at the Russell Hotel for dinner and to say hello to Helen the manageress. I will have a drink at the St Andrews Golf Club to say hello to Gordon, Oggie, Alf and the rest of the boys (all over 70). I plan to see my old friend John, the one that always refers to my wife as the lovely Christine. I am going to have a dram with my friend Mike and commiserate about what could have been with Hamilton Hall. But mostly, I am going to breathe Scotland and all that it is to me. I never get excited about travelling until it happens but this trip has me on edge. As I found out 28 months ago, you never know when it will be your last.

* DUM SPIRO SPERO means “While I breathe, I hope” in Latin and is generally attributed to Cicero. The notable origin of the motto is St Andrews, Scotland. It’s attribution to Saint Andrew and his bones (relics) being taken to this small fishing village on the North Sea, contributed to its direct linkage between the saying, the town, the University of St Andrews and the Saint.

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Post Marathon, Aye Wonder Tuesday

On 04.21.09, In Aye Wonder Tuesday, By Mike

Is it Tuesday already? Goodness. If you live in Boston, you no doubt know that the Marathon was in town yesterday. That’s upwards of 26,000 official runners and their friends and families coming into town. That means it’s time to party. I’ve long said that Boston is a drinking city with a sports problem and yesterday proved it once again. The cash registers never stop ringing for bars and restaurants at or near key viewing points of the race. Nothing comes close to Marathon Monday with the possible exception of New Year’s Eve. It makes for a very long Tuesday. Trust me.

While Marathon Monday’s Tuesday hangover prevented me from writing earlier, I am here with the regularly scheduled Aye Wonder posting. Some of my random thoughts may be muddled (like one of the drinks I had yesterday) but I trust you will make sense of them. So here goes.

☞When he pitched in Boston, I loved him but when he left I saw Roger Clemens for what he is. Now, the world will get another look at him through the soon to be published book entitled American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime. Sports Illustrated is publishing an excerpt from the book that will undoubtedly raise further talk of Clemens’ lies to a Congressional committee. I wouldn’t want be him.

Can you help me? I can’t inject in my booty.

Those were the fateful words that began the friendship between legendary pitcher Roger Clemens and the trainer who would ultimately betray him, Brian McNamee.

☞I want to say I don’t believe in torture but something inside of me asks this question: If the balance of the country’s stability and safety can be upheld by getting information from one person, would I torture to get that info? I would have a difficult time saying no, I think. I know it is inhumane but a terrorist attack of innocent people is more inhumane. Is this a simple case of two wrongs don’t make a right?

☞Geez Norm. Haven’t you had enough appeals by now? Apparently Norm Coleman doesn’t think so because he is now appealing a lower court ruling from last week that awarded the Minnesota senate seat to Al Franken. Minnesota has been underrepresented now for 4 months because of Coleman. I would be willing to bet that if the election were held again, Coleman would lose in a landslide because all throughout the process, he has put his own interests ahead of the interests of the Minnesotans. People generally don’t like that.

☞I had a great laugh when I read this story. It reminded me of the time that there was a bank robbery in a Massachusetts north shore community and police were waiting for the criminal when he got home to Charlestown. Apparently, the genius thug was wearing his Charlestown High School football jacket when he perpetrated the robbery in full view of the bank’s surveillance cameras.

☞A week ago, I never heard of Shawn Lee. Now, I can’t stop listening to his new album, Shawn Lee Presents Soul in the Hole. It’s amazing to me that Lee recorded this album in this decade. It has such an authentic 70’s soul sound with some electronics thrown in. Have a listen to the same titled opening song and see if you agree. WOW.

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☞If you live in Boston or plan to visit, make certain the new Lansdowne Pub is on your dance card. It is a brand new Irish Pub with a 67 foot long bar. They will be serving traditional food and lots and lots of beers including 2 Guinness taps. The fixtures are stunning and they will have live bands starting this Friday night. Endway does a residency there for 5 weeks. Here’s the poster. (of course, it’s a self-serving post!)

☞In my effort to keep it real here, I found this video about waterboarding. The journalist bets he can endure 15 seconds of waterboarding. Its not difficult to watch but it is enlightening.

☞And lastly today’s Aye Wonder quote is from Michael Levin, philosophy professor at City University of New York. He writes in favor of torture here.

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.

Aye wonder about this.

And I am certain you do too.

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Truth in Advertising

On 04.17.09, In Don't Miss This, Food, By Mike

Fast food restaurants deserve their reputation. Are they convenient? Yes. Do they serve up slop? Yes, again. These photographs show the food as advertised and then again as served in their restaurants. Big diff, as the kids say.

This is the advertised McDonald’s skillet burrito

And this, the purchased one.

This is the advertised Arby’s Beef ‘n’ Cheddar

And one served at the restaurant

Here’s the advertised version of KFC’s famous bowl

And this one, the dog’s dinner:

If you have an appetite (pun intended ) to see more of these you can visit here.

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Woe is Me

On 04.16.09, In Mind the Gap, Scotland, By Mike

Woe, Woe is MeI really miss Scotland. I do. My cynical friends from England will read this and think I’ve gone off my meds. But England and Scotland have been wedded for just over 300 years and have predictably grown apart (like the US north and south appear to be doing now!). Truth be told, it’s Scotland that is the self sufficient county. They have great cattle, game, fish, poultry, vegetables, ale, whisky and most importantly, oil. Like England, it is a beautiful country but Scotland has a much more diverse topography. The Highlands are breathtaking as are the Inner and Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of islands off of Scotland’s northwest coast. Visit once and Scotland will get into your bloodstream faster than a dram of Glenmorangie. It’s an amazing place and a place that I haven’t visited in 20 months, the longest dry spell since I visited there for the first time 30+ years ago. Go behind the tab for more…

Why I miss ScotlandSometime ago I wrote a post about the 10 Reasons I Love Scotland. You can read part one, here and part two, here. Today, I’d like to tell you, a year and half removed from the country, what I miss the most about Scotland; why after all this time is it a place I think about every single day.

I have considered this scrupulously. I know what I love about Scotland but the reasons can’t entirely be why the country is so under my skin. No, my rapturous love for Scotland is all about the way of life. One of the things about living in America that we take for granted is that everything is so incredibly convenient. We have huge fridges that store a week’s worth of food. We live in a world where the town center is no longer important; the mall is important or the Super Stop & Shop. In Scotland (and England) the town center is the cog of life. I must admit that when I was younger, the town center was even more important there than it is now. But for better or worse (I say worse), the US way of doing things is rubbing off in the UK. I think there’s something really great about walking to the butcher, the fish monger, the produce store, the cheese and bottle shops to pick up the evening’s meal. You see your neighbors, stop for a pint, share a laugh with your pastor or make golf plans along the way. The town center has a pulse, its own life. I positively LOVE that. In St Andrews, where my home is, I can walk everywhere. If I wanted to go out for dinner, I could walk to 25 restaurants and an equal amount of pubs. If I wanted to see a movie, I could walk to the local cinema where three current movies are on offer. I wouldn’t have to jump in the car and drive to the multiplex where there are 15 films vying for my attention. OK, so I don’t have as much of a choice but is that a terrible thing? I could wait until next week when all three movies change. Even though I live today in the middle of a large city, I long for a simpler life. But I don’t want to live in isolation. A small town, where I can walk to everything, suits me. I can walk to golf, the beach, the botanical gardens, the theater or the cafe. Is that available anywhere in the US? Maybe in a resort town but then you are faced with isolation in winter. Scotland has everything I want.

Yet, I am still here.

Here’s a quick joke for you:

What’s one thing you will never hear in Scotland?

Oh that car? That’s the bagpiper’s Porsche.

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Aye Wonder Tuesday – The Beginning of a Streak?

On 04.14.09, In Aye Wonder Tuesday, By Mike

A post Passover/Easter greeting to all of you. I seem to be writing with slightly more frequency. Will it continue? Time will tell but I am guessing – yes! I must start by saying that the plethora of bad news is brutal on the psyche. There is no escaping the economic news that is top of minds and newspapers. Crime seems to be up or at least it feels that way. We are getting “fee-ed” to death because local state and city governments budgets are out of balance. North Korea is restarting their nuclear arms plant. Somali Pirates have taken over the North African seas. It all makes a news lover and follower want to never pick up the paper or tune into CNN. When I am uniformed, I feel empty. News constantly fills my brain and perhaps it is the root of my sleep problems. So today here at Aye Wonder, there will be nothing but good news and entertaining thoughts. Your regularly scheduled, miserable post will be back next week. Same Bat time. Same Bat channel.

☞ I want to start by putting you all in a good mood. I always say that British advertisements are the best. They always are chockablock with humour. In the UK, it seems you can’t sell anything unless it is funny. This ad from Wilkinson Sword takes the cake. It is filled with hillarious sexual innuendo and double-entendres. Sounds like a good start, n’est pas?

☞Mark Fidrych died yesterday. He was a baseball player that played at the major league level for a brief but memorable period in the 70s before suffering a career-ending injury. There is nothing happy about Mark Fidrych’s death but I will tell you this: anyone who ever saw him pitch will tell you that not only was his craft superior, he approached the game like he was 8 years old. He talked to the baseball, he groomed the pitcher’s mound on his hand and knees and he ran out to his teammates when they made great plays. His curly hair stuck out of his hat like the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. You couldn’t wait to see him pitch again. When the newsreel comes on this weekend, watch Big Bird as he was called. It will make you feel young, happy and sad. RIP Mark Fidrych.

☞I have always wanted to go to Cuba. I hear that the food is wonderful, the music invigorating and the culture a throwback to the 50-60s. Yesterday, President Obama made a long overdue policy change that will relax travel restrictions to Cuba. I won’t be the first person in line but I cannot wait to visit. We debated going once while we were in Turks & Caicos but thought the better of messing with the State Department. Cuba will change with a tourism influx so make your plans if you ever wanted to go.

☞I like to share some of the music that I listen to with you. Usually, it is new music but sometimes I like sharing things you haven’t heard in awhile but are likely to be familiar with. Today, you get both! I was listening to an old soundtrack from the 80’s and was reminded what a magnificent frontman and writer Joe Strummer was. This track from the movie Sid & Nancy is called the Dum Dum Club. It got some limited play when it came out but it definitely stands the test of time. See if you agree. The second song is called Easy Beat by Dr. Dog. Dr. Dog is a Philly outfit that immediately sounds familiar but at the same time brand spanking new. Their vocal harmonies are easily reminiscent of the Beatles or the Beach Boys. Easy Beat starts off with a Dick Dale Misirlou surf riff that immediately makes you think that you know the song. You don’t of course, as it goes careening on a different path. I like this band a lot. Check them out.

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☞Guess what? It’s getting close to lunchtime and I am thinking about sandwiches again. Not that I am going to have one, mind you. But since I fancy myself a sandwich artisan, I wonder how you think this sounds? We had a pork roast for dinner on Sunday and I got to thinking about a great sandwich I had ages ago with pulled pork and eggplant. It really is delicious. But what could be better? How about this: pulled pork and melted Fontina cheese with a slight drizzle of maple syrup on a richly cut sourdough bread? Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Thank you very much.

☞I think it is highly likely that Eliot Spitzer will run again for public office, perhaps even the New York Attorney General job. Spitzer, by no means above the law, seems like too good a public servant to call it a day. I really believe that the same people he was investigating are the ones that dropped a dime on his prostitution issues. I hope New Yorkers can forgive (no one ever forgets). David Patterson is a good example of inept public servitude. Spitzer looks like the second coming by comparison.

☞Can you see how difficult it is to come up with good news? I mean, I don’t want to resort to talking about Bo, the new Obama dog.

☞Good News: The Yankees have started the season with 3 wins and 4 losses. Bad News: The Red Sox are 2-5. Are the Sox auditioning for a part on Life on Mars?

☞Now, this is truly great news for us males over 50: a drug, that at the moment goes by the unmarketable name of MDV3100, could halt prostrate cancer if taken daily. It could be ready in as little as 3 years. This is a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Lets hope this is the real deal. Read the story here.

☞As I wrap up today’s Aye Wonder, I remember that I failed to give you last week’s quote of the week. I will not forget today. This week I have an old Welsh proverb for you that while the language is dated, the sentiment is not. Just remember this, the press views good news as no news at all. Hang in there.

Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet.

Aye Wonder what good news today will bring.

And I hope you’re wondering right along with me.

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A Tale From the Road

On 09.10.08, In Food, Friends and Family, Fun, Funny, Golf, Golf In Scotland, Humor, Life, Scotland, Travel, United Kingdom, Vacation, By Mike

I never tell stories out of school. Ever. But this one happened so long ago that the participants can comfortably blame it all on youth and ol’ demon alcohol. It was one of the funniest stories ever brought back Stateside by this group. – Well, it was funny for us.

After a long day of golf in Scotland’s East Lothian, our group decided to dine at a respectable restaurant rather than eat off of crumpled newspapers from the local chippie that we frequented all week. None of us were keen for a formal evening out but we needed food that wasn’t covered in batter. So -we scrubbed behind our ears, put on clean underwear, donned our regulation blue jackets and attempted to look like civilized, private club members as we made our way to the Waterside Restaurant in Haddington. It may not have been our best choice during the week but we would make a worse one later that evening.

By the time we arrived at the restaurant, bounteous amounts of alcohol had already been consumed. Dinner was loud. Supersonic loud. It was so boisterous that we ended up buying dinner for two tables of two that were abutting us. Damn us Americans, we are such bad tourists. After dinner (the below photo) we went outside to take our much needed after dinner drinks.

Directly behind us and the wall is the Tyne River and it was the subject of our post-dinner conversation.

Before it all went pear shaped

Through a clouded whisky brain, one of us opined that the Tyne is not a very wide river as it winds its way through East Lothian. “True enough,” said another.

And with that the discussion corkscrewed over to another tangent altogether. “Perhaps one could easily swim across it without much effort,” one of us temptfully exhorted.

“In fact,” someone else said, “wouldn’t it be great to have a race across the river?”

Gulp.

My friend Murph, the left-most bookend in the above photo, is generally game for just about anything. My other friend Dan, second from right and next to me, volunteered to race across providing there was a purse. After cobbling together a ludicrous sum for a swim race, the boys were stripping off clothes down to their clean – soon to become dirty – underwear.

It was a sight to behold and all of a sudden, we had race. And an audience.

The Waterside Restaurant - The big door in the center

At the count of three, Dan and Murph hurdled the wall and ran down to the riverside, each with a different drink-infused strategy. Murph dove straight away into the six inch deep water nearly killing himself while Dan ran “through” the river complete to the other side. Murph realized the water’s depth after kissing river bottom and ultimately proceeded the same way as Dan but it was too late. Danno had won.

Now they were on the other side of the Tyne in their underwear with an unplanned dilemma – how to get back. Their choices were to either swim/run back across the river or walk over the Nungate Bridge where a crowd had gathered to watch. Meanwhile, the rest of us were finishing our ports, buckling over in laughter, as Dan & Murph walked back over the Nungate through an adoring yet bewildered crowd.

We don’t do silly things like that anymore.

As far as you know.

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