In the summer of 1963, my second with 'Sports Illustrated,' Jerry Tax, the basketball editor, got the Celtics' Frank Ramsey, the NBA's first famous sixth man, to do a piece for the magazine revealing some of the devious little tricks of his trade. Things like surreptitiously holding an opponent's shorts - nickel-and-dime stuff.
Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.
A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.
I devoured everything on the radio, I felt like I knew music.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
I've got two chocolate labradors, Murphy and Dexter. They're like my children.
I am a huge fan of shows like 'Breaking Bad,' 'Dexter,' 'The Mentalist.'
I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.
What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.
When you find real jazz on the radio dial, it comes in all static-y. It's just like tap dancers. You have to go uptown to find the real hoofers. We only come to midtown if we're called upon.
I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor.
I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more colorful.
I like that part of the culture of 'MST3K' is this constant dialog on what movies could be done and what movies should be done. I've seen plenty of bad movies and walked out afterward thinking 'That would have been perfect for 'MST3K.''
