So the guy walks into the bar, orders a martini, and then steps away from the counter and heads for the head. This is not a joke. When he comes back, he fully expects to see a cocktail glass filled with gin and a couple olives sitting on the bar at his spot. He finds nothing. The bartender, … [Read more...]
Off Course
Sports and arts, stories and images of the world that edges on our golf courses.
This damn game
Dawn Patrol, first of the season, at the Golf Course in the Valley of the Shadow of the Brewery, alone with my thoughts, too too alone … Sing with me, won’t you? Muscle memory, dim in corners of my mindMisty sprinkler-spattered memories, like, dang …Really? All those lessons?All we spent on … [Read more...]
This damn game: Masters Sunday edition
It's sort of like a cynical grownup version of hoops in the driveway and HE SHOOTS HE SCOOOORES!! We're just four old guys playing golf with no stakes whatsoever and all we've been doing for three days before we went to an actual golf course to play is watch the Masters on our … [Read more...]
The back way in
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- I left The Carson Cigar Company with a buzz in my brain and gratitude in my heart for a good martini and the bartender who built it, and it's no small thing to get all that and smoke a cigar, too, in one darkly well-lit place during normal business hours. It's impossible, … [Read more...]
Mobley Bros edition
Somewhere during his journalism studies at Southern Cal and a career as sportswriter, sports editor and desk man, my friend Gordie's worldview diverged from mine pretty severely to the point we can't be friends on the Colossal Social Networking Platform (CNSP) because we can't be civil about our … [Read more...]
Slothism
I vowed when I went to bed Tuesday and it looked bleak for our side that I would cut off all my friends who gloated when the jerk won and I would disengage from all politics and work hard for good in my community and be kinder to all living things and healthier in mind and body and, of course, drink … [Read more...]
Thoughts on Dot’s
In any snack-shopping story, excess = success, and vice versa. We were at our local grocery emporium and came on a rack on an end cap with two bags left, just two, of Dot's Homestyle Pretzels. Did I take them both? No. That would've been mean. Directly kitty-corner across the store, oh joy, … [Read more...]
The street that time forgot
The dog shits more than he eats, I mean volume-wise, which is a puzzlement to me. I like all my bio/medical questions to be answered by Dr. Fauci these days, and while this one might be out of his particular area of specialty and off the subject at hand, I think I'll send it in to the next town hall … [Read more...]
There’s no next-best thing
We begin at the top when we start in to list the global sporting championships compromised by COVID-19. It's no joking matter, so we speak in hushed tones about postponement of the Bent Shaft Classic and lesser world events. It's not a tragedy. It's just a golf tournament. But what will we do with … [Read more...]
Day 1: Goofy again at the Prez Cup
The Internationals' unprecedented 4-1 lead after Day One of the Presidents Cup should have been no surprise, given the severe competitive disadvantage faced by our boys. Really with the white pants? If cringing made a sound, you’d be hearing it from the famously astute Grey Goatee Fashion … [Read more...]
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