Frank B.
Robert Hazard and the Heroes and Me
Author’s note: This was first published in December, 1988 in issue #4 of Cubist Pop Manifesto, a fanzine I published with my college roommates at the time, Brian Welcker and Tom Hoffman. This story was one of the first things I had ever written that drew a response from people outside my immediate circle of [...]
The Memory Hole (part 3)
I got Larry Marshall right as well. As I remembered, he was both the Eagles kick and punt returner – a bit unusual, as teams usually use two different players for these roles. He served this role for four seasons (1974-1977). According to pro-football-reference.com, he ranks #58 all-time for combined return yardage, though never scored [...]
The Memory Hole (part 2)
Well, contrary to what neuroscience was leading me to expect, nearly all of my details check out. The main one that did not was my age – I figured I was 6, but actually I was just a few weeks shy of turning 8, so this hardly counts as one of my earliest memories. I [...]
The Memory Hole
One time when I was in graduate school, a few of us students were sitting around the lounge talking about our earliest memories. A lurking professor, overhearing our conversation, observed that our recollections were dubious, at best. What we were more likely remembering were repeated stories or photographs or home movies – and not even [...]
Expect the unexpected
Today, on a financial form, I was asked to estimate my unexpected expenses for 2011. Acceptable categories included funerals, natural disasters, and legal proceedings.
Hipness is relative
from the Fort Lauderdale (FL) Sun-Sentinel: Hip new movie house adds social hub to FAU Once known for its placid nightlife, Florida Atlantic University is giving students and the community a reason to be on campus after dark.
Crime and Incident Report
When I was in college, the best part of the student newspaper was the crime and incident report. 20 years later, the tradition lives on. Here is an item from today’s The Miami Student (Oxford, Ohio): Officials find male with head injury At around 2 a.m. Tuesday, Oxford Police Department (OPD) officers were dispatched to [...]
Don’t Walk
I have always been staunchly pro-pedestrian. But earlier this week when the city installed audible walk signals in the intersection outside my house, there was a problem: they were loud. At least the westward-facing one aimed our way. Seven shrill chirps every 90 seconds, like a partial cycle of a 1980s car alarm. Not quite as [...]
Another letter to the editor…
…exclusive to Salt in Wound! To the editor: The slogan on your masthead, held in a fierce-eyed eagle’s beak, reads, “the information source for the Capital Region”. And yet Andy Rooney’s column is the precise opposite of information. I know, I know: he is a local institution, 91 years of age, has been doing this [...]
Jack Silbert, curator