tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post4410396913722574625..comments2024-03-18T19:57:16.505-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/18/24: Does this beard make me look like Steven Spielberg? Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-40610979982938203952016-07-07T08:30:59.709-05:002016-07-07T08:30:59.709-05:00Enjoyed your anecdote about the girl in the café, ...Enjoyed your anecdote about the girl in the café, Tom.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-1040333371024178092016-07-07T00:44:27.749-05:002016-07-07T00:44:27.749-05:00You look like Stephen Spielberg, just younger. You look like Stephen Spielberg, just younger. Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621439195920479957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-86278374954421264522016-07-06T17:50:40.741-05:002016-07-06T17:50:40.741-05:00Tom -- I noticed both stories. I'd be reluctan...Tom -- I noticed both stories. I'd be reluctant to comment on the Ark, unless it was on the way to something else. Why underline the obvious? As for the Archbishop's rather quaint and tortured views on sex, I don't think that is worth my sticking my arm into his cage.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-24950973266315623442016-07-06T17:17:26.051-05:002016-07-06T17:17:26.051-05:00Neil seems never to run out of timely topics, but,...Neil seems never to run out of timely topics, but, given his gift for exegisis, one would like to get his take on two religious-themed stories in today's news. First, the newly opened exact replica of Noah's Ark somewhere in Kentucky (where else?) And, second, guidence given to the faithful by Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia on when e sex within marriage is permissable, a feature of which is that remarried Caholics may cohabit, but only "like brothers and sisters."<br /><br />On the latter, one can only sypathize with the priests charged with enforcing such edicts.<br /><br />Tom Evans<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-60866360342180185682016-07-06T15:34:36.324-05:002016-07-06T15:34:36.324-05:00I think you and Steven Spielberg are both good loo...I think you and Steven Spielberg are both good looking guys. <br /><br />P.S. Tell your wife there's no need to be jealous since I'm also happily married :-)<br /><br />Linda BLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07023427375867309963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-45551369402326976562016-07-06T11:40:59.092-05:002016-07-06T11:40:59.092-05:00Strangers used to say I looked like Bob Newhart. I...Strangers used to say I looked like Bob Newhart. I couldn't see it, but my wife said there was a resemblance. After a while I took to responding, "Yes. And people are always telling him he looks like me."<br /><br />Nice job on the Mikva obit. One assumes it's been on the shelf for a while. I learned about "nobody sent" when assigned to profile<br />a neighborhood in South Chicago, then a lily-white bit of "steeltown," as part of a U. of Chicago sociology fieldwork course. I was met with a cold shoulder trying to get official statistics and people I tried to interview about local history were not very forthcoming. Then I took up with a girl I met in a local cafe, and ended up being invited into her home to meet her daddy, who happened to be a precinct captain. He was interested in my project, probably because of what of use he thought I might uncover, and was, himself, a mine of information. He also told me I could use his name in making inquiries. My report practically wrote itself. The affair was, itself, short lived. The girl said, with some amusement, that her mother liked me but was worried because I was neither Polish nor Catholic. She herself tended to lose interest after a few dates on discovering I was not in funds and didn't have a car. <br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-85236670760669470962016-07-06T09:37:07.059-05:002016-07-06T09:37:07.059-05:00With regard to Abner Mikva's obit: my brother...With regard to Abner Mikva's obit: my brother got an updated version of the "nobody sent" routine when my father (a Chicago policeman) sent him over to the Park District to look for a job. The people there sent him to the Ward office, which promptly told him to return to the Park District. After a couple of round trips, he got the message. And became a Republican. Not right away of course and aside from an unwonted sensitivity to criticism of George W. Bush, he was almost as liberal as I. <br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2740496495007668912016-07-06T06:41:58.896-05:002016-07-06T06:41:58.896-05:00The first time I saw your picture with a beard, I ...The first time I saw your picture with a beard, I thought of not of Spielberg but Burl Ives, although his face is much rounder than yours. But if you google search of Burl Ives, you'll find one or two pics where he bears a passing resemblance to Spielberg, so there's that...Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999742344943920153noreply@blogger.com