All Entries in the "Society" Category
College Football Recruiting: Adults Gone Mad
By Christopher Gabriel Blog Harbor and CGabriel.com In the often complex world of working one’s way through the teenage years, one thing stands out as the great equalizer for those gifted on the gridiron: College Football Recruiting. Even more than college basketball recruiting, it is the one arena in life where teens are calling the [...]
They Said It, I Read It and a Car Horn
By Christopher Gabriel Blog Harbor and CGabriel.com The past few weeks have been loaded with what amounts to a verbal and prose buffet’s-worth of items screaming for attention in Blog Harbor. With that in mind, grab your coffee, get comfy and let’s chat. Hi Sweetie-Pie I grew up in a family that frequently used names [...]
One Paragraph, One Video
By Christopher Gabriel Blog Harbor and CGabriel.com When last we met, I was discussing the nature of blogs. Some of them are short, creative gems offering little more than a video with one sentence of introduction along the lines of ”Check it out dudes, this video rocks!” And it usually does. At the other end of the [...]
Long Day’s Journey Into Blog
By Christopher Gabriel Blog Harbor and CGabriel.com In the 26 years I spent as a professional stage actor, I must have worked with at least 1,000 actors, if not a few more. And in the case of nearly every one of them, there was always the inevitable closing night party conversation regarding staying in touch. You know the [...]
Wandering Aimlessly at the Mall . . . and in Life
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor The fact the word “Mall” is in the title of this piece tells an awful lot about me. Yes, I go to malls. And not only do I go to them, I enjoy them. Usually. Most men I know refuse to admit they ever venture forth to these bastions of [...]
Smiling that Little Smile for Me
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Super Tuesday II. Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. What are the polls saying? Who scored better in the latest searing exchange between Barack and Hillary? Has Barack renounced anyone today? Has Hillary rejected anything? Has John marginalized anyone? None of those questions will be answered here in [...]
Lady Millie of the Pigeons
For a number of years now, there’s been a highly publicized controversy over what to do with the multitude of pigeons populating London’s Trafalgar Square. Having been there myself, walking through the square is tantamount to being on the set of Hitchcock’s The Birds. Everywhere your eyes scan, a pigeon is directly in front of you. This morning I stumbled [...]
