Posts by Hank

Moms and Madness

This has been a tough March Madness for me. As if it’s not bad enough that I currently wallow in the 24th spot in my son Matt’s 31-person pool, Carol — Matt’s mother and my wife — is in 4th place! Fourth place in a pool with some pretty hardened college hoops aficionados. Fourth place with the…

Snowy Fun

Carol and I spent the weekend before last skiing in Vermont. I should say I spent it skiing in Vermont; Carol had just undergone PRPT — platelet-rich plasma therapy — on both her left knee and right elbow. PRPT is the breakthrough non-invasive alternative to surgery, and it’s getting lots of po…

Jay Beagle? Seriously?

“Just so you know, there’s a player for the Caps [Washington D.C.’s pro hockey team] named Jay Beagle.” This was in an e-mail I received yesterday from a BEAGLE MAN follower from our nation’s capital. No, actually I did not know that. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone famous with the last…

Ricky, Uggie, and Oscar

I’d gone to see The Artist (run-away winner at the Academy Awards yesterday) last month with a big chip on my shoulder. Carol and I usually agree on which movies we choose, but not this time. I have a few rules, and she knows them: No animated films. No movies with subtitles. Okay, so maybe…

What Do Jeremy Lin and Ricky Have In Common?

For me, some of the best parts of Lin-sanity, now well into its third week (I know, I know — doesn’t it seem like we’ve never not known about J-Lin?), are the little things. Like last night’s exchange between Lin and Kris Humphries when they bumped into each other in the tunnel between locker roo…

We Wuz Robbed!

Cinders, the wire-haired dachshund, wins Best in Group for the hounds at Westminster? Are you kidding me? And the two beagles don’t even finish in the money? Did the judge have her eyes open? How could she possibly resist that proud, fluffy flag of a tail on Buddy, the 13-inch beagle from Vi…

Egrets Only

Spotted a lot of creatures while we were down in FLA last week. Ricky wasn’t with us on the trip, so no photos of him in this post. (Robby, feel free to stop reading now.) From the terrace of our room on Captiva we could see dolphins leaping. At least I could see them. I kept screaming out f…

The Curse of Homer

You name it, it’s my fault. In my house I get blamed for everything sports-related. Robby didn’t play high school lacrosse? My fault for raising him to be a baseball player. None of the boys get to root for Eli and the Giants in two weeks against the hated Pats? My fault for being a Jets fan…

Odd Couple

Romeo and Juliet. Antony and Cleopatra. Superman and Lois Lane. Bogart and Bacall. Ricky and Nena. It might not have quite the same ring, but you should see the two of them. Nena, a chihuahua belonging to Luz’s niece, is a frequent overnight guest at Luz’s apartment, so Ricky and Nena have spent…

Coneheads

Of course you remember the Coneheads, from the planet Remulak. Dan Aykroyd as Beldar. Jane Curtin as Prymaat. Laraine Newman as their daughter, Connie. Chugging entire six-packs of beer at once. Inhaling packages of cigarettes. Yapping about “consumables” and “parental units” in their synth…