Foreword by Stan Lerner: the numbers came in last week “Road To Nowhere” was downtownster’s most read blog in September 2009, which at least to this author merits a reposting on the homepage. New readers enjoy! Longtime readers, enjoy again!!! “If anybody would like to join the first downtownster road to nowhere road trip I’ll [...]
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THE RAVEN
October 13, 2009 – 1:15 pm
Foreword by Stan Lerner: Edgar Allan Poe was finally given a funeral befitting one of the greatest writers to have ever lived—a debt of gratitude is owed to the city of Baltimore for this. Edgar Allan Poe and I share January 19th as a birthday and it is the poem below that he wrote just [...]
HOLLYWOOD – A LOVE AFFAIR
October 8, 2009 – 10:59 am
The LA Times recently published a piece that pronounced the recent rash of Hollywood Executives to be shown the door the best slasher story in years. The LA Times of course left out the second best slasher story, that being all of the slashing that went on at the LA Times, but that would be [...]
DOWNTOWN OLIVER BROWN AN INTERSECTION OF LOCALS
October 4, 2009 – 4:03 pm
1100 Wilshire had been an office building with no tenants before the most recent housing boom came along and made it a place that people who enjoy a sky-pool call home. Frankly, the pool at the Skyline, where I am currently borrowing a rich friend’s place, is probably the nicest in Downtown—I’ve used it once. [...]
IRAN
October 1, 2009 – 3:37 am
Several months ago I wrote in a downtownster blog that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons – unequivocally. I went on to say that sanctions would not cause the Iranian government to halt their development of a nuclear weapon. I did not mention the not so well kept secret of the uranium enrichment facility [...]
OLIVER BROWN – HANGING WITH STRETCH
September 30, 2009 – 11:19 am
Foreword by Stan Lerner: as mentioned in a previous foreword, I’m working on the motion picture screenplay for our dear Downtown Oliver Brown, so I thought it a bit of fun to repost some of his classic adventures. Enjoy!!! “Hey Oliver, slow down a second.” I stopped half a block short of 7th on Flower [...]
INTRODUCING DOWNTOWN OLIVER BROWN
September 29, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Foreword by Stan Lerner: as I began work today on the motion picture screenplay version of Downtown Oliver Brown I could not help but to think he should once again grace the home page of downtownster. And while all of Oliver’s adventures are available under the downtownster feature section there’s nothing like reading him off [...]
AFGHANISTAN ALL IN
September 24, 2009 – 3:35 pm
There is never an end to the building of a country. The United States has been and always should be under construction. And all should know it to be true that good construction requires a solid foundation. Subsequent to the September 11th 2001 terrorist attack on the United States there was great need for building, [...]
STATE OF RACE
September 16, 2009 – 12:37 pm
Over the weekend the state of race relations in America came to mind…Seventy-five thousand protestors marched against President Obama’s agenda…Serena Williams had a meltdown at the U.S. Open…Kanye West went thug at the MTV Video Music Awards…And I attended my friend Kim’s Gospel Brunch in Beverly Hills. All of these events, except for my brunch, [...]
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME?
August 4, 2009 – 10:18 am
My writing has come to span a variety of topics. And because one can never truly know what lies beyond the next door I, on occasion, write about what was once reserved for my most personal of conversations—politics and business. You see, I admittedly have a passion for both subjects, but in the ideal sense; [...]
