Twitter Updates
Tweets by ydrewis-
Recent Posts
- I am not here to grieve Larry’s death, but to thank G-d that such a man lived. Indeed, the timing of his demise, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. And obviously, true wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us…
- Children begin by loving their parents; then they judge them; rarely, do they forgive them. But blame is for G-d and the small children we must keep from going insane. Leanne discovered she couldn’t have them. And I had married into insanity. Indeed, mothers may be fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own…
- Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. We don’t lose our sense of humor because we get old. We get old because we lose our sense of humor. The problem with humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood. And Joey G was cute when he was being humorless…
- Just as there are doctors who help people who have done bad things, there are lawyers who defend bad people. People do not win fights, lawyers do. Everyone thinks defense lawyers must believe their clients are innocent, but that’s seldom true. Most of the time they are guilty as O.J… yet Trev also got his client off — mostly…
- Mother’s Day can be a torment, especially if your mother’s been dead less than a year… Men are what their mothers made them. And my mother was slightly insane. She told us baked potato skins were bad for us – so she could devour ours. Hmm… I write a mental letter to my mother every day… and apparently so does my brother…
Archives
- October 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
Categories
Meta
Tag Archives: cigars
I am not here to grieve Larry’s death, but to thank G-d that such a man lived. Indeed, the timing of his demise, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. And obviously, true wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us…
Two weeks before Larry turned 61, and about 8 months before he was due to retire after more than 30 years, many as a supervisor, down at the city’s ports, he died the other day. Suddenly. Indeed, unexpectedly… which may … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cigars, death, Larry, life, New Jersey, Philadelphia, seashore, Twin Smoke Shoppe
Leave a comment
These days everybody is so terrified of being labeled a racist. Racism is like ketchup, it can be spread on practically anything. But the question is: Do folks in America have a right to be racist? Hmm… I never apologize for the truth. And the truth is that racists come in many different colors…
During a glorious day on July 4th weekend at the Atlantic City shore a large gathering of Hispanics from Puerto Rico, with ample beach to chose from, decided to plop their blankets… and chairs …and umbrellas… and coolers… and radios… … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AA, airport, Asians, Atlantic City, bailout, beach, Belgian, bigot, Blacks, bourbon, Brian Williams, Brits, Central America, cigars, claustrophobia, comedian, Coney Island, detente, diplomat, Dominican Republic, Donald Trump, Eskimo, French, gamblling, gin, Greek, Haiti, Hillary Clinton, Hispanic, humor, Italian, Jewish, Lebanese, lightbulb, MSNBC, Nicaragua, nightclub, North Carolina, Philadelphia, President Obama, prostitute, Puerto Rico, racist, railroad, RC Cola, Richard Pryor, social media, South America, South Philly, Spain, stereotype, Syrian, tattoo, Twin Smoke Shoppe, twinkies, Twitter, West Africa, xenophobia
Leave a comment
It’s been no secret for centuries that ‘the rich get divorced, and the poor get ethics.’ In other words, the law and opportunities aren’t the same for everybody. Indeed there is larceny in all our hearts. But some hearts steal more. And the rest of us get a lot less…
The other day at the Twin Smoke Shoppe in South Philly where I puff cigars daily, Ralph got to talking about the time years back he used the $100 ‘given’ him to get poked with a prostitute… and instead bought … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alcoholism, America, Angel Dust, bourbon, Bush, cigars, District Attorney, Donald Trump, dope, formaldehyde, German Shepherd, Goodfellas, Google, Goombas, Great danes, Italians, Jew, Jewish, journalist, justice, Luxembourg, Massage Parlor, Moses, newspapers, Nixon, Obama, oregano, Panama Papers, Ph.D., Reagan, sex, tax havens, tax shelters, veterinarian, Walmart
Leave a comment
If you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. But if you want to keep leading the parade you’ve got to keep striving, being extraordinary… And that’s another reason we shouldn’t be having a parade for a Little League team that finished 3rd…
I may be wrong here, but the way I understand it you don’t get a gold medal for beating ‘somebody’ — you get a gold medal for beating ‘everybody’. Surprise… surprise… Once, way back in high school, I got a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged America, award, Chicago, China, cigars, gold, Hallmark, Las Vegas, Little League World Series, Mayor Nutter, medals, Mo'ne Davis, Modell's, Philadelphia, smoke, smoking, Sports Illustrated, Taney Dragons, trophy, United States
Leave a comment
Waging war is much easier than keeping the peace… And in Afghanistan, where for thousands of years empires went to die, no one understood their past, nor listened to what they wanted for future peace… Or so I was told by a young vet about to be committed to the war of marriage…
At first they seemed like just three ordinary young guys when they ambled into the Twin Smoke Shoppe in South Philadelphia the other night. Then again most people seem run-of-the-mill at first. Their haircuts were cropped neat and tidy — … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Afghanistan, Argentina, Army, bourbon, Chester County, cigars, fireman, Germantown, Hamas, helicopters, Iraq, israeli, Italian, Jewish, marriage, married, paintball, Philadelphia, scud missile, South Philadelphia, Taliban, Twin smok Shoppe, Vietnam
Leave a comment
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up… for that we’ve got Viagra. Which proves some laws are not made by nature – but by man. So why doesn’t the price of coffee and cigars ever come down?…
Hmm… Last Sunday I made a discovery: That the price of coffee has nothing to do with the laws of physics. And neither does the price of a cigar – premium or not. That doesn’t make me a genius. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AIDS, Atlantic City, beaches, border, cancer, Central America, cholesterol, cigarette, cigars, coffee, Cuba, drink, exercise, FDA, gay, government, grass, Iraq, Julia Childs, LBGT, MacDonalds, marijuana, Mother Teresa, New Jersey, North Korea, penny, Pep Boys, Philadelphia, pleasure, psychiatric, puritan, sex, slavery, smoker, smoking ban, Starbucks, Starbutts, Syria, taxes, terrorist, tip, tobacco, UPS
Leave a comment
If you’re playing a poker game and can’t tell who the sucker is around the table — it’s you. Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich – something for nothing. And Atlantic City is like a crab, crawling backward in search of the ocean… and missing! And now back to being Gay…
One night under the low lights of a noisy tavern this young, vivacious woman with laughing eyes from Texas was explaining how she had logically, strategically and mathematically determined to move from Dallas to Philadelphia. That is instead of some … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Asbury Park, Atlantic City, blackjack, boardwalk, Boardwalk empire, casino, cigars, Dallas, Delaware, Fort Lauderdale, gay, gay marriage, horse, Las Vegas, lesbian, LGBT, Monopoly, Mother Teresa, New ersey, New York, nude, Park Place, Philadelphia, poker, Provincetown, rehoboth, salt water taffy, South Philadelphia, Steele Pier, Stonewall, TV, Twin Shoppe, viagra, World's Playground, WWII
Leave a comment
No matter how smart you are you spend much of your day being an idiot. Hmm… I hate to advocate cigars, alcohol, drugs or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. So why is the government minding Grumpy’s business?…
Besides too much reading, writing and over-exercising, two other vital activities that keep me from killing assholes are drinking — perhaps a tad more than a tad less — and smoking cigars. Do you think five or six a day … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged allopurinol, America, AWOL, cigars, communist, Department of Licenses & Inspections, election, Europe, exercise, gout, government, Grumpy's, law, license, Liquor Control Board, mental health, pharmacy, Philadelphia, prescription, public school, puritan, rheumatism, smoking, South Philadelphia, Southeast asia, steroid, tattoo, taxes, vote
Leave a comment
Obviously I’m not the world’s most handsome man… I’m the world’s second most handsome man! And all I can say is that G-d must love ugly people…because he made so many of us. Fortunately I have good-looking kids…thank goodness my ex-wife cheated on me…
My recent and ongoing weekend warrior was asking me the other day why I think she and I have been hitting it off so well. That’s a euphemism for: What do you like about me? And to respond to something … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bourbon, Caribbean, cigars, fat, Freud, Haiti, Haitian, Jewish, LatinAmerica, poker, Renaissance, skinny, TV, viagra, whiskey, zaftig
Leave a comment
Most folks live to have resumès, instead of having resumès because they lived…Most resumès ain’t nothing but lies that nobody bothers to read anymore — and not just because there ain’t no jobs…And then along came not-quite-5-year-old Andrew who asked me to help write his resumè…Oy-vey-iz-mir!
I think on my resumè, which I have never finished nor submitted anywhere, it still says that I can juggle while driving my ex-wives mad; am working on a cure for mental halitosis and teenagers; am totally politically-incorrect and a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged America, autobiography, Ben Franklin, Bush, Chinese, cigars, education, France, Greece, History Channel, IPad, Italian, Italy, Kool-Aid, McCain, Mickey Rooney, Resume, Rumsfeld, Russia, Serena Williams, South Philly, Spiderman, Stanford, Voltaire, weapons of mass destruction, Wimbledon
Leave a comment
ydrewis.wordpress.com 