Archive for October, 2004
Visiting History (The cemeteries of LA)
By Tom Teicholz at 29 October, 2004, 7:44 pm
I have always had a soft spot for Brazil. I spent the summer after high school graduation there, and my wife and I spent our honeymoon there. I love the people, the music, the food and the spirit that Brazilians carry with them as effortlessly as they dance the samba. But I never imagined my [...]
Read More >>Listening to Lenny (Lenny Bruce)
By Tom Teicholz at 15 October, 2004, 7:46 pm
One night many, many years ago, I was at The Comedy Store on amateur night when Robin Williams walked in off the street and jumped onto the stage. For the next 45 minutes, the air inside the club turned into nitrous oxide as Williams made us all feel a bit brighter, a bit wittier, a [...]
Read More >>Cleaning House
By Tom Teicholz at 1 October, 2004, 7:48 pm
Several months after my mother died, I had to clean out her apartment in New York. The apartment had sold, the co-op board had approved the new buyers, the closing was imminent. The apartment had to be delivered empty.
This was the apartment I had grown up in, where my parents had lived, where my father [...]