Ain't my "Boss"

Bruce Springsteen was in town once again. B.S. and his e-street band are still peddling warmed over retread Phil Spector spins since 1973.

A constant source of embarrassment while residing in Cleveland during the 1970's, was witnessing this vastly overrated new jersey musical import being hyped up and tossed into the Cleveland radio market via the grease merchants from Columbia records and delivered willingly to the airwaves on wmms fm .

How disgusting it is to still encounter the fascination with Springsteen's music by the naive local crowd to this day. By all accounts Bruce Springsteen is a decent human being and I can positively identify with his non musical political beliefs, I have attempted to sample his offerings over the years but his musical message is lost somewhere in NEBRASKA.

Speaking of bosses, the daily fish wrapper, aka p.d. ,offered forth their new editor , one Susan Goldberg , for an hour of softball repartee via the airwaves of wcpn on their Monday morning November 5th "ideas stream ?" program, which aired from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

Never has so little of consequence been said in such an allotted time.

The stench of self-serving palaver clogged the public airwaves for an hour and served to attract no real critical callers. One nice elderly woman called from Lakewood, Ohio, to express her son’s p.d. reading joy when he visits home from a southern Ohio city.

No wonder, if you believe that a quality newspaper is lacking here in the "best location in the nation"; try finding a newspaper down interstate 71 a piece! The p.d. seems to have open access to the public radio station's programming at the expense of any true public criticism, or inclusion of any contrarian or challenging thinkers derived from the public it purportively serves.

The ongoing relationship between the for profit and highly politically motivated pd and our so called " public radio station " wcpn is so cozy as to beg for a third party chaperon to be present to break up their on air petting and make out sessions that occur whenever one of the serial sycophants from the pd crawl into the wcpn radio stations friendly on air confines.

When Ms. Goldberg mentioned "the p.d. and journalistic ethics" I had to excuse myself from breakfast for purpose of an inspired prodigious creation of a malodorous purgative. Welcome, Ms. Goldberg to Ohio's largest newspaper, spaceport, and the ever so predictable quilting bee located at 1801 Superior.

In keeping with the loosely themed subject of writer's, it appears that the Hollywood branch of The Writer's Guild of America may be on strike for awhile.

Along with California oranges, one of our prime American exports is entertainment, and I wish these dedicated hacks the best of luck and success in their pursuit for residuals. In the meantime, perhaps Bart Simpson will pick up an old cigar butt of Winston Churchill's, and we can clone some political diplomacy for the world again.

Or when O. J. Simpson makes his date with the jailhouse he can find solace in Marge Simpson, and Martha Stewart as his main rappes.

If you are venturing a bit east of city limits check out Stevenson’s bar and grill , established 1920 along Lakeshore Boulevard in Euclid , Ohio. A great curative for the political upheaval in Euclid's bloody knuckled recall election tomorrow , Stevenson's is always the same great place for lunch or late dinner seven days a week, great hamburgers, fried baloney, homemade soups, handcut fries , and other comforting foods.

Plenty of cold beverages, and sports on the twin televisions that flank the long bar. The ambience here is the beauty of a restaurant that is charming, family run, and always a popular destination to take a visitor from out of the area.

Never have had anything less than a great meal, served up friendly and cooked to perfection every time. Try their loaded up fish sandwich.

Perfection!

Bookselling Time!

For an early holiday chore why not look no further than a copy of Mary Peale Schofield's LANDMARK ARCHITECTURE OF CLEVELAND, this enjoyable reliable history published in 1976, remains the most accurate and usable guide to date.

You the user will have to overlook the missing buildings that did not make the aesthetic or political cut, and have been taken down since the books publication.

You can always visit the vacant lot as a consolation prize. Such is life in historic preservation architecture starved Cleveland, Ohio.

Thanks to John and Kim, and my Family. Go Oranges! I mean Browns! Those NFL uniforms and all this orange cloth worship has got to go!

Ugly!

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