Heck Of A Guy

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Vignettes On Fatherhood

June 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Holidays-Celebrations, Self-Referential

Remembering Dad My dad and I never had philosophical discussions. He didn’t teach me how to sail, take me for long rambles in the woods, or give me advice about women. Still, he did have his moments. My father had little use for parties or, indeed, social functions of any kind that involved anyone other [...]

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Escaping Chicago's Winter Weather

January 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Self-Referential

When Did The Weather Go South? Simply by driving a few hundred miles south of my home, I indeed escaped the inevitably miserable gloom and cold of the Chicago winter – and exchanged it for a winter storm in southern Missouri. That bruised-looking area on the map above represents the area now covered by a  [...]

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DrHGuy Is Still Reexamining And Rereading

October 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · HOAG Site, Self-Referential

Yes, and here’s to the few Who forgive what you do And the fewer who don’t even care Leonard Cohen, from “Night Comes On”

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DrHGuy Is Taking A Day Or Two Off From Blogging

October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · HOAG Site, Self-Referential

DrHGuy is taking  a day or two off to reassess his allegiances and re-read Michael Malone’s “Handling Sin.” He may also, as he is wont to do, recite a few A.E. Housman poems for his own amusement.

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Hilton Head Vista 2009

June 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Aha! Items, Self-Referential

When I extracted the yesterday’s deer photo from my camera’s memory card, I also found the shots taken during my recent vacation. As a gesture of mercy, I am publishing only this single vacation photo. It was taken from the balcony of the house we rent in Hilton Head. The structure seen is a gazebo1 [...]

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Dizzily Resonating With Two John Updike Poems About Death

April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Poetry, Self-Referential

John Updike And Me After Julie1 died in 1999, I found poetry2 and, to a lesser extent, music more meaningful than the spiritual guides, self-help books, philosophical meditations, and the other aids well meaning folks recommended as a means of assuaging my grief and loss. Consequently, I have, if not sought out, at least been [...]

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After The Leonard Cohen Thing, Heck Of A Guy To Lie Low On April Fool's Day

April 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Leonard Cohen, Self-Referential

Fun Vs Fact At Heck Of A Guy Never obsessive in distinguishing between fact, fiction, hyperbole, half-truths, quarter-truths, 3/8-truths,  wishes, hypotheticals, and other points on the reality-fantasy scale, Heck Of A Guy has long operated on the policy of opting for funny over factual, choosing puns over precision, and electing alliteration über alles. Indeed, I [...]

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The Half-Sister Of Mercy, Leonard Cohen, & Me – Part 2

February 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Leonard Cohen, Self-Referential

This post is the sequel to The Half-Sister Of Mercy, Leonard Cohen, & Me1 The Half-Sister Of Mercy Prototype While the primary focus of this post is the Half Sister Of Mercy, the delightful woman I met just prior to the Leonard Cohen Beacon Theater Concert and with whom I spent the evening, I must  [...]

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The Half-Sister Of Mercy, Leonard Cohen, & Me

February 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Leonard Cohen, Music, Self-Referential

On The Sidewalk In Front Of The Beacon Theatre Before The Leonard Cohen Concert, …1 I met, among others waiting for the theater doors to open on that cold February night, A thirty-something entrepreneur so intent on seeing Leonard Cohen perform that he had flown from South Africa to New York that afternoon with the  [...]

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The Rise & Fall Of The Biggest Leonard Cohen Fan

December 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · Leonard Cohen, Self-Referential

I had noticed in the past month that more and more often, sites linking to Heck Of A Guy identified me as a “Leonard Cohen fan.” This aside from Whirled Musings, a site that used, as this blog did, Leonard Cohen’s Democracy as a centerpiece on Election Day,1 is among the most benign: Another blogger [...]

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