Month: May 2023
Memorial Day
For Yanks, Memorial Day is about resolute if terrified men and women, innocents all, who died, often alone, horribly and in confusion, […]
REDUX: Perfectionism: The horror. The horror.
The Dorks. The Dorks. Perfectionism is the downside of Type-A. While a great starting point, and wonderful instinct, the drive to get […]
Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia
Mother died and left me reckless, Daddy died and left me wild. No, I’m not good lookin’, I’m some sweet woman’s angel […]
Stephen Fry: The Joys of Swearing
Actor, Writer, Renaissance Man, Polymath: London’s Stephen Fry.
Robert Plant: In Praise of Taboo Admirers
Lips like cherries and the brow of a queen, Come on, flash it in my eyes. You said you dug me since […]
Happy 95th, Big John.
Best day’s work I ever did was marrying your mom. – John D. Hull, III (May 17, 1928-December 27, 2012)
William Beard Hull (1837-1929), C.S.A.
William Beard Hull (1837-1929). Born Augusta County, Virginia. In 1858, as oldest son, Bill, 21, on saddle horse served as his family’s […]
Melissa Jane Holt Hull (1845-1918)
Melissa Jane Holt Hull (1845-1918). She was my great-great grandmother. Several living Hulls have a resemblance to Melissa. Born and died in […]
Mom, each year I try. I still don’t have the words.
July 1, 1950 My mother–to us, “Mom”–was and is that mom all the other kids in the neighborhoods we lived in wanted […]
Oscar Wilde on Moms.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. “• Oscar Wilde, The Importance […]
Partner Emeritus No. 5. PE Does ‘Nam, Cassandra, others (Part II)
I guarantee you one thing. If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. […]
The Greaseman: Powerboaters v. Sailboaters.
Get off your knees, guys.
Sharp Dressed Man: Raoul Duke is back from the Derby
Cuff links, stick pin. When I step out I’m gonna do you in. –Gibbons, Hill and Beard Raoul Duke (1937-2005)
The Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862.
Artist Unknown. “Mexican David defeating a French Goliath.” – Time Magazine, May 5, 2010
How to Work: When the MC5 summered in Detroit.
Detroit, July 19, 1970
Tennyson does May Day.
O, look! the sun begins to rise, the heavens are in a glow; He shines upon a hundred fields, and all of […]




















