Upcoming Theme Weeks announced for Silverback Digest: Week of March 8 ... "A Deep Dive into Dolly" Parton Week Week of March 15 ... Cutest Grandkid Contest (send your best pics) Week of March 22 ... Mud Season Special And in other News of the Jungle ... SB Todd's (Wall St. Silverbacks) son Craig will... Continue Reading →
The Great Heist … 1963
“When You’re Dry, Drink Buckeye” by Silverback J (Mendocino Bonobos) If you'd like a little background music while reading this post from SB J, play this while you read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHTUKcniD2U The statute of limitations is long past, and my buddy Moon has long since drawn his last breath, so I guess it’s safe now to... Continue Reading →
Scratching the Travel Itch – Travel via Stomach
Food is an essential component of travel. Now, thanks to Amazon and other delivery services, it's easier than ever to sample gustatory exotica in the comfort of your own home, even if you live on a back road in rural Vermont. Here are a few recipes to consider: TUNNA PANNKAKA - THIN PANCAKES contributed by... Continue Reading →
Scratching the Travel Itch- Anthony Bourdain
[For a long time Anthony Bourdain was the last person I would see in the evening. Then, the next morning, Sandy would ask "So where did you and Anthony go last night?" Anthony Bourdain burst onto the foodie scene with Kitchen Confidential, a spill-the-beans book about what takes place behind-the-scenes in the restaurant business. It... Continue Reading →
What’s the craic, lads?
2021-02-23T16:00:00 days hours minutes secondsuntil"Scratch the Travel Itch" Week. Tell us how you are doing it these days.. I listen to The Blindboy podcast. "What's the craic, lads?" Craic, pronounced "crack," is Irish slang for cool. The Blindboy produces the #1 podcast in Ireland. He's a former HipHop artist (one half of the duo Rubberbandits),... Continue Reading →
Erotic Pastry … or Why I Married a Sicilian
Today's post was a suggestion by SB Sal (Post Island SBs), who just happens to be Italian. Don't worry, this is from the BBC, so it's classy and cultured, not smutty and perverted. This story made me glad I married a Sicilian! These pastries are guaranteed not to have baculum bones. The pastry that is... Continue Reading →
Another Baseball Story
(If Bonobo Boy J gets to tell a story of his glorious men's softball game past, then I get one, too. Here’s the story as it appeared in the vacation edition of The Herald of Randolph in July, 2017. SB SM) Sprague’s Dairy vs. the Guy Wilson Agency:The Day the Baseball World Stood Still Author’s long-winded introduction:Memoirs... Continue Reading →
Baseball Story from SB J
THE NIGHT CARL DeCARLO WENT DOWN I can see him now, that long-ago summer night in our Smalltown USA ballfield, under the lights, striding up to home plate to meet his Destiny. Now, Carl DeCarlo was one of those strikingly handsome bachelors that women of all ages and political persuasions swoon over. One of those.... Continue Reading →
It’s My Birthday!
It's all about me today! I am king of the Jungle I will begin by mating with all the Silverbelles in my harem: That will make me hungry, so I will eat some breakfast: Royalty-free stock illustration of a gorilla standing up as it eats a banana. Now, what to do? I think I'll practice... Continue Reading →
If you find Mesmerism, Mysticism, Drugs, and Sex appealing …
Babylon Berlin is For You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV202fHfAnQ TV SERIES : FOREIGN FILM HIGHLIGHT A recommendation from Silverbelle Mimi (Post Island SBs) For an intriguing and atmospheric trip to the Weimar Republic in the wild and sexy 1920's, head to my favorite foreign series,Babylon Berlin. The series opens with a mystery and solving crime is the ostensible... Continue Reading →