April 2015
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The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Israel, Vol. 3 (2009)
With baseball season underway, it seems like a good time to return to the collected e-mails of Lee Israel, as this batch heavily features her interest in our national pastime. Lee routinely watched Yankees games on TV even if, as you’ll see, she wasn’t particularly root-root-rooting for the home team. The previous year, with the […]
Movie Review: The Wrecking Crew!
4 stars out of 5 I saw this documentary on my birthday, but I slacked off for more than two weeks before reviewing it. Still, that’s totally in the spirit of the film: It was 18 years in the works, and even on IMDB it’s listed as a 2008 movie. But with the help of […]
Ask Jack: Baseball’s Mark DeRosa on Career Change
Kind of a change of pace for this week’s installment of my AOL Jobs column: Baseball veteran Mark DeRosa discusses his new career as a co-host of MLB Network’s new morning show, MLB Central. Born in Passaic and a graduate of Bergen Catholic, another Jersey boy makes good! And here at Salt in Wound HQ, […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 4/7/15
EPISODE #175: BREAD (PASSOVER 2015) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Joy Division — “Passover” Jonny — “Bread” The Felice Brothers — “Take This Bread” King Khan & his Shrines — “Welfare Bread” Ceramic Dog — “Bread and Roses” Bitch Magnet — “White Piece of Bread” Slint — “Breadcrumb Trail” Louis Jordan — “Beans and […]
Touring the Stevens Family Legacy
On Saturday, I took a three-hour bus tour of historic sites in Hoboken connected to the Stevens family. For hMAG.com, I wrote about what I saw and took some photos.
Rejected Lipstick Colors
• “Still Infected” • “Moonlight in Saginaw” • “ISIS Ice” • “Forbidden Biden” • “Under-Table Bubblegum” • “Room-Temperature Pink” • “Excessive Chapstick” • “Redd Foxx Foxy Red” • “Very Berry Botox” • “Manischewitz Chartreuse”
Ask Jack: American Dream, Personal E-mail, and Job of the Week
In this week’s installment of my AOL Jobs advice column: the fallacy of the American Dream. Plus, what information would you be willing to hand over in order to get a promotion?
Jack Silbert, curator