Category Archives: RIP

Baseball on the Radio

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Jorge Costales

I had one of those busy nights last Tuesday. I was shuttling my kids, my Mom & Tia around from nightfall on. The next to next to last stop was to pick up a friend on our way to a … Continue reading →

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Charlie Wilson’s War and Pat Hingle, RIP

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Jorge Costales

Don’t read if you intend to see the movie, Charlie Wilson’s War. This Boston Globe editorial accurately summarizes a lesson which the creators of Charlie Wilson’s War attempt to make. Toward the end of “Charlie Wilson’s War,” a CIA officer … Continue reading →

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Charlie Brown Meets the Luftwaffe Pilot

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Jorge Costales

The title of this post sounds like an Oktoberfest cartoon. Not even close. I didn’t have to hunt for the obituaries today, the Miami Herald had the good sense to place Charlie Brown’s obituary— written by Charles Rabin–on the front … Continue reading →

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Dying to Read Obituaries

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Jorge Costales

I have an unmorbid interest in obituaries. How to summarize a life. God, they were my age! People who served as volunteers seem most content. One of the pleasures [and dangers] of living in the web age in the US–or … Continue reading →

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Sydney Pollack, RIP

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Jorge Costales

I was reminded recently that Sydney Pollack, one of the great film director’s passed away in 2008. A couple of my favorite movie scenes ever involved him in Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman. He also had a great scene in Eyes … Continue reading →

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, RIP

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Jorge Costales

A great hero in the struggle against communism, or totalitarianism, has passed. I read Warning to the West, which was based on his speech at Harvard in 1978, and it had a great impact on me. Specifically, it sold me … Continue reading →

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Pucho [Pero Why Not?] Fernandez, RIP

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Jorge Costales

I don’t know how his material will hold up, but no matter. I will remember him fondly. Pucho ‘Cartucho’ Fernandez made my friend, fellow sports degenerate and current Herald Boxing writer, Santos Perez, laugh on literally hundreds of occasions in … Continue reading →

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Tim Russert, Catholic – RIP

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Jorge Costales

… what they know, you can learn. What you know, they’ll never understand. That quote perfectly captures the advantage I’ve always felt coming a lower-middle class background. Whenever someone passes unexpectedly, my thoughts run reflexively to my own mortality and … Continue reading →

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William F Buckley Jr, Catholic – RIP

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Jorge Costales

A great American and a very public and committed Catholic died today. Among the many people WFB inspired, was me. Watching him abuse Phil Donahue, led to me to watch him debate, a first for me, George McGovern. Which led … Continue reading →

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