Good morning!

From Utica, New York!

Utica is from whence I come. My former home. Always home in my heart. Even though now I am proud to call Key West home.

The plane trip yesterday was uneventful. Seemed long. Probably because I was tired from lack of sleep.

Lisa picked me up before 7 in the morning to drive me to the airport. It was still dark outside. Robert and Ally were hiding in the back of the van. All of a sudden they jumped out and yelled…..surprise!

A joy!

I left Key West at 8. It was 80 degrees. I arrived in Atlanta at 10. It was 55 degrees.

I was dressed for it however. Even a leather jacket which I needed!

People look different once you get away from the sunny keys. Pale. Brow lines. Appear unhappy. Smile less.

It is fall in upstate New York. The trees have started to change. They are about 25 per cent into the process. The colors are not bright yet. Dull. In a week they will be blazing red and yellow.

I feel the chill here. Sixty degrees. People are into using heat. Good!

I visited with my 96 year old father last night. He is in better shape than all of us! We watched the Yankee game together. He is a die hard fan. I am not into baseball. I got a Yankee education last night. How they have lost 6 out of their last 7 games, are tied for first place, only a handful of games left.

I caught the last few minutes of the Wisconsin football game before I left for Dad’s. Wisconsin was playing Michigan or Michigan State. Both were undefeated at 4-0. Wisconsin lost by 10 points.

I felt bad for friend John at Hot Tin Roof. A Wisconsin grad and die hard fan. Not their year, John! Wisconsin will end up with a good season and go to a decent bowl. But #1 remains elusive!

I was in bed around 10 and slept the sleep of the dead till 6 this morning. I needed it!

One of the blog readers from another country e mailed me. Said…..carpe diem!

I had never heard the term before. Did not know what it meant. So I googled it.

Carpe diem is Latin for seize the day. Horace used the term in a poem. Horace was saying the future is unknowable. There may not be one. Life is sudden. So…..drink the wine today!

Good show, Horace! A wise admonition, if one thinks about it. Unfortunately most of us do not live that way. It is always tomorrow…..when tomorrow may not be.

Two former big time stars recently died. Tony Curtis and Eddie Fisher. Sad. Both talents in their own right.

I always enjoyed Tony Curtis. He was a flexible actor. Played many rolls.

Eddie Fisher was a terrific singer in my earlier days. He sang primarily love ballads. He married Debbie Reynolds. She was young and beautiful. America loved Debbie Reynolds! America loved the marriage!

Then Eddie Fisher did the unforgivable. He fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor! Divorced Debbie for Elizabeth.

America hated Edddie Fisher for it! His fame and acceptance dropped like a lead ball off a building. He never was held in high esteem again. He never enjoyed the same success as a singer again.

I have house guests back in Key West. Donna and Terri. They arrived after I left yesterday morning. To both I say welcome. And please take out the garbage tommorrow. I forgot to do it.

Enjoy your day!

THIS IS SATURDAY’S BLOG. I AM DOING IT LATE FRIDAY EVENING SINCE I HAVE TO LEAVE EARLY IN THE MORNING TO CATCH A PLANE TO NEW YORK STATE.

Great radio show yesterday morning! Really this morning!

Terrific topics!

The most feed back after the show concerned the segment on mortgage foreclosures.

I touched on J. P. Morgan Chase’s announcement yeaterday that it was putting a temporary freeze on foreclosure matters. Apparently the bank is concerned with flawed paperwork at its end.

I also commented on the recent article in the Sun Sentinel advising Florida Congressman Alan Grayson had asked the Florida Supreme Court to look into the activities of certain law firms that were representing banks in foreclosure actions.

I finished the segment with comment regarding what I perceive as a misuse of federal stimulus funds by the State of Florida. The Florida legislature has taken a chunk of the monies and given it to the Court System. The purpose is to assist the Court System in resolving the large number of pending mortgage foreclosure cases. The claim is the cases are backlogging the courts.

My thought is the stimulus dollars are being used to assist Wall Street over Main Sgtreet once again. The banks and courts are suddenly moving expeditiously to clear the court calendars of these cases. All to the detriment of taxpayers, many whom will be evicted from their homes.

The blockbuster to all of this is the announcement this afternoon by Bank of America that it was tempoarily putting a halt to its foreclosure proceedings in 23 states. To examine the paperwork involved at the bank’s end which some feel might be a bit shoddy. A bank employee recently testified at a deposition that she signed affidavits in some 8,000 foreclosure matters indicating that she had examined certain documents involved in the foreclosures. She had not. She said there were just too many foreclosures.

There seems to be a snowlballing effect to alleged bank errors and misdeeds.

I lunched alone at Hogfish. Sat in the shade by the water. Read the newspapers.

Later packed for my trip.

My farewell evening in Key West had for its first stop the Chart Room. Where else!

Michael bartending. Chatted with the patrons.

Then it was off to the Hot Tin Roof for dinner.

Manager John was all excited! His alma mater Wisconsin is 4-0. Ranked 9 and 10 in the polls.

Wisconsin plays Ohio State in 3 weeks. John assumes both teams will be 6-0 going into the game. And, of course, he expects Wisconsin will win! This is their year! So John says!

Stopped at Don’s Place on the way home. Relatively quiet. Erica and Herschel there. My bocce team mates!

Erica has a new hair do! She is a red head! Said she had it done today. She looked terrific!

Kurt was bartending. He surprised me. When I told him I was traveling to Utica tomorrow, he told me he had worked there 10 years ago. He knew the motels, restaurants, the old Chicago Pneumatic and the Turning Stone Casino. What a small world!

I leave tomorrow morning for Utica. Donna and Terri arrive tomorrow morning for a 3 week visit. My house guests, of course! Love to have them here! Sorry I will not be with them the first week of their stay.

I will write the next blog Sunday morning. From Utica! In the center of New York State.

Weather conditions are around 60 degrees. Means socks, long pants, real shoes and a jacket.

I miss Key West already!

Enjoy your Saturday!

Good morning!

Welcome to Friday!

And my radio show! The Key West Lou Legal Hour!

10 am this morning. Available for listening on the radio. From Key Largo to Havana, Cuba. KONK 1500 AM. Everywhere else world wide, on the intertnet http://www.konkam/, where you can see as well as hear.

A good show today! Intertesting topics! Like a Senegal court that recently forbade children from being used as beggars, the saga of Albert Greenwood Brown on death row, the case of the cell phone secreted in the villan’s butt, Ohio weird dumb laws, a walk back in history with Harry Truman and a letter to his daughter Margaret, some odd ball things about Indonesia and how it treats its women, a Muslim offering you his left hand, a look at mortgage foreclosure lawusits, the weird dumb lawsuit of the week, Russia and neo Nazis, a Rutgers freshman jumps off the George Washington bridge, stimulus dollars from Eisenhower to Obama, and an Arizona update.

A full program. Much to talk about.

I am glad Nicole was fickle and decided not to visit Key West. From the looks of Washington, DC and New York this morning, Key West would have been flooded. Boat time on the island. Not in the water.

Key West has had more than its fair share of hurricanes and tropical storms over the past 10 years. It is good to finally be ignorred.

I started ysterday with a haircut. Lori! At Blown Away! A nice girl. Lovely. Always cheerful.

Then I hurried home. I had not completed preparations for today’s radio show. I was only half way there. Worked till almost 3 when I had a dentist appoinment.

My dentist is Dr. George Lindner. A nice guy. Great staff.

I had lost half a cap. The diet! I am supposed to eat nuts. I did. Cracked a cap.

Easy to fix. No big deal. Just time consuming. I had no time yesterday. The radio show preparation was not complete.

I hurried home after the dentist to work on the show some more. I had decisions to make. Bocce was last night. It was Lisa’s birthday. Bocce lost.

I telephoned Don and told him I would be a no show for bocce. Completed my work on today’s radio show.

Then hurried out to celebrate Lisa’s birthday. We did it big time! At the rib place on the boulevard behind Checkers.

I colored with Ally. We played tick, tac, toe. Tied. She is getting good!

Then they went to their home and my mine. I had more on my plate before bed.

My supplemental insurance and drug program had been cancelled this week. Just found out yesterday. So I needed to get some coverages. Opted to try AARP programs.

Six telephone calls and 4 1/2 hours later, I had the drug coverage. After the radio show today, I will work on the doctor part.

Nothing is simple in this world today. All 800 and 888 numbers. No one person knowing everything. Time wasted waiting for a body to pick up at the other end. I think I ended up in India. My last and best person to deal with was named Pim.

I leave for New York tomorrow morning for a week. Actually, Utica in upstate New York. My hometown. I will be writing from Utica starting Sunday morning. I hope to do my radio show next Friday from there also.

Enjoy your day! Try to listen to the radio show at 10 this morning!

Nicole never made it!

She stood Key West up!

Fortunately!

I was so certain tropical storm Nicole was going to hit Key West yesterday. The weather reports made it a certainty.

I told you in yesterdy’s blog it was coming.

It never came!

Nicole entered the keys around Marathon. Marathon is 45 miles north of Key West. Key Largo was flooded big time. Miami and north had large amounts of water and flooding.

Key West, nothing.

I said I was not going to play golf because of the rain. Don telephoned. We are going to try to play. Ok.

I went to the golf course. Gray. Don, Rob, Kurt, Larry and Aaron there. I ended up playing in a two some with Aaron.

It sprinkled a bit on the first hole. I put on my rain gear.

On the second tee, the sun came out. And never went away. It was a glorious day! A bit windy. Kept things comfortable.

There was no one on the course except us. Larry and I played 18 holes in 2 hours and 45 minutes.

Dinner last night was at the Yacht Club. I entertained Don, Kurt, Larry and Aaron. We had a good time! Joked and laughed all through dinner. These are some of the best guys in the world!

Afterwards we went over to the Bottle Cap to see Larry’s internet radio variety show live.

Permit me to digress for a moment.

Key West has some of the best and most talented musicians and musial venues in the world. Among them, Bobby Nesbitt, Howard Livingston, Larry Smith and the Keys Piano Bar.

In my walk around Truman Annex a few days ago, I ran into Bobby Nesbitt. He had just returned from some cruise gigs and European travels. We chatted a bit. He was to begin his Wednesday night thing at Aqua last night. I was excited. His singing touches the heart. Makes one happy.

I did not make it to Aqua last night unfortunately. I worked on Friday’s radio show and then rushed to dinner at the Yacht Club.

Tonight Bobby is playing at cocktail time at Kate Miano’s Gardens. A great setting for a great performer! Catch him, if you can. I cannot. I will miss him again. Bocce. Life is all about priorities!

Howard Livingston is just big time! No other way to describe him. Obviously talented. His new Direct TV show into 34 million homes validates my admiration of his talents.

Larry is one of Key West’s premier musicians. Perhaps numero uno. A technician. A craftsman. Between his Wine Galley shows and now the radio internet show, he is a major contributor to the Key West musical scene.

I loved the Keys Piano Bar. Notice the past tense. It will be no more. The Keys Piano Bar closed for six weeks. Now it has been announced it will not reopen. Sad. I enjoyed the New York piano bar music it provided Key West.

Things may be changing. It may be that a bar or night club is no longer the primary venue for musical offerings. I sense a transition. I believe Howard and Larry have tapped into the new mode for enjoying visual music. Internet sourced.

Economics may have a lot to do with it. It is cheaper to sit home and sip your own vino and watch internet produced music. Bar tabs have gotten increasingly larger in recent years.

Larry’s variety show last night was terrific! The best yet! Each show is increasingly better.

Jenna was lovely and perfect as Larry’s co-host. The cast excellent. Gee Gee, Alex, Doc Covan, Petra and Peter Diamond all did their thing perfectly.

The show is experiencing some techincal difficulties. Professional though it may be, there are always bumps in the road. Last night it was the cameras. They were not getting the show to stream onto the internet for a while. Larry, worry not. Everything in due course.

I watched the show with Don and Kurt. Somewhere along the way, we lost Don. I turned around for a second and when I turned my head again, he was gone.

Bocce tonight.

And, oh I almost forgot! Today is Lisa’s birthday. Happy birthday Lisa! I love you!

Lest you think poorly of me, I already telephoned her about 6 this morning to wish her a happy birthday.

Enjoy your day!

Key West is getting a visitor today. Her name is Nicole.

Her entourage has already started arriving.

Nicole will be better known before the day ends as Tropical Storm Nicole.

It is still dark outside.

I can hear the wind. It will get stronger. 25-35 miles per hour. Gusts projected at 40 miles per hour. Not bad.

I can hear the water. The waves have to be pretty good. Probably small white caps. By later in the day, they will get bigger. No time to be out on a boat. No one will be out on a boat.

Rain today is projected at 100 per cent. To be believed. How much seems a question. Projections are anywhere from 1 inch to 1 foot.

Nicole is a tropical depression. A step below a hurricane. Not necessarily dangerous.More of a pain. A lot of wind and rain. The problem is these storms at this time of the year are unpredicatable. A tropical storm can easily turn into a hurricane.

I am not a weather expert. The little I know is that these tropical storms are caused by a tropical depression. Whatever that is. I know the term, but not the meaning. What I do comprehend is that the waters this time of the year are extremely warm. Even faucet drinking water is warm. Hot water is not required to shower. The warm water is sucked up into the atmosphere and causes/contributes to these storms.

Nicole is coming to us from the northwest Carribean. Another oddity. Hurricanes generally initiate off the coast of Africa and travel this way. Nicole started in the immediate south compared to an African bred hurricane. Ergo it is coming upon us swifter that an African storm. There is less distance to travel.

All in all, Nicole should not be a big deal. Just 24-36 hours of big rain and wind. However, you never know!

Many consider the hurricane of 1935 the worst ever to hit the keys. It was not. The hurricane of 1846 was. And…..it came from the Carribean to the south! At relatively the same time of the year as now. October 5, 1846.

The winds were horrendous! Homes and buldings were generally of wood. Some stone. Neither built to withstand such force. One survivor reported that “…the air was full of boards, timber, slate…buildings falling in every direction.” Another “…the air was filled with missles-the slates were driven with deathlike celerity, giving dreadful wounds.”

There was a surge. The next day. The ocean covered the island. There was no escape. As low as 5 feet. As high in some parts as 7.5 feet.

Worry not. Our trials and tribulations, if any, over the next 24 hours will not compare.

Golf this morning. I will not be playing. It will rain heavy at some point. The winds will pick up. The game will be no fun.

I walked yesterday. At Truman Annex. A touch of difference. The area was developed roughly 15 years ago. Lovely white homes. Picket fences. Well foliaged. Quiet. Nary a person on the streets.

I had to return to Publix. I am eating up my supply of food rapidly on this diet. Needed more veggies and fruit. I bought a piece of salmon which I had for lunch. Delicious!

Dinner last night was with Lisa and the family. Lisa has been a vegetarian for years so I had no worry about eating. Her meals are the family’s meals.

Robert and Ally showed off a bit. Their golf putting prowess. On the living room carpet. I continue to be impressed!

At one point Ally was absorbed in a magazine. It was a catalog for halloween costumes. They were terrific! So were the prices! Roughly $50 to $60 each. I told Lisa and Corey to go to K-Mart. They agreed.

I was listening to the radio in the afternoon. Howard Livingston was guesting on KONK radio. He has signed to do a televison show beginning November 4. A one hour show to be aired 3 times per week. On Direct TV. Channel 354.

It will reach 34 million homes!

God bless, Howard! You deserve it!

I plan on spending the day finalizing friday’s radio show and writing a bit. Hope the power stays on!

Enjoy your day!

I wrote yesterday that it was a gray morning and looked like rain. I was wrong. An hour after I wrote that statement the sun came out! Big time! It was a glorious day!

Rainy days are rare in Key West. Generally only a five minute shower here and there. However, this past August and September seems to have had more rain than normal.

I had some paperwork to do. Some business. Some writing. I opted to do it ouside. Put on a bathing suit and took my laptop with me. Sat at the bar beneath the tiki hut. Whenever it got too warm, I walked over to the pool and jumped in for a few minutes.

That is how I spent my day. Not bad.

Part of the writing was in preparation for friday’s radio show.

It is amazing the world wide following the show has developed. Via the internet, of course. The internet in and off itself amazes me. People watch and listen to me from Indonesia, India, South Africa, France. Italy and England, for example.

One of the persons watching and listening from South Africa is Rita. Rita lives in Calitzdorp. Calitzdorp is the port wine capital of South Africa. Its soil and weather are conducive to the port grape.

Rita and her family own and operate a restaurant. In the middle of Calitzdorp. Not a small one. Meals are served in three areas. On a spacious front porch, inside a large rom with a fireplace and outside in a garden. Two hundred patrons a day for lunch and 200 more for dinner. Not a small operation by any description!

Lunch ends around 3. Dinner begins at 6.

My 10 am radio show from Key West is aired at 4 pm in Calitzdorp.

Fifteen to 30 people listen to the radio show. Rita has the voice piped over the loudspeaker system. Some come intentionally to listen. Others just happen to be there.

Wild!

I stayed in last night. And cooked!

I am on a diet again. This one more healthy I believe.

I was watching former President Clinton on TV last week. He lost weight for his daughter’s wedding and now continues to eat a healthy life style. He has become a vegetarian. It is called the Mediterranean/planters diet. Fruits, vegetables and nuts.

I am into cooking! I call it cooking. It really is not a big deal. But more that I have been accustomed to doing.

Last night it was egg whites, fresh broccoli and low fat shredded cheese in the frying pan with a touch of extra virgin olive oil. It tasted terrific!

I blame my doctor for having to diet again. She said I am periodically unhappy because I have given up all the crutches in life. Alcohol, smoking, sex (not my idea!) and eating. I cannot drink or smoke because of my heart. Sex is not that easy to come by. So I ate! Big Time! Went on a food binge!

I even walked more yesterday. Two times. Around the house. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

Enjoy your day!

Overcast this morning. Rained during the night. Looks like it may rain more this morning.

Even gray, everything looks good! Sky, water, palm trees, mangroves, house across the way.

My Sunday morning yesterday started with Meet the Press and the Chris Matthews Show.

Boring.

I am getting sick of the Democratic/Republican diatribe. Same thing week after week lately.

I walked. Downtown Key West. Duval Street. From the Atlantic to the Gulf and back. Took all of 40 minutes.

It was quiet. Except for Poker Run and the bikers, September is a dead month in Key West. Actually it is a good time to visit. No crowds. Many restaurants at half price. Hotels with cheaper rates.

The ambviance remains the same, however. A good time can be had by all!

After my walk, I headed to the Coffee House. It was time for the New York Times!

I am a born reader. Especially in retirement. When I worked, I had little time to read to the degree that I do now. Actually had no time. It was law, law, law. As it was supposed to be. This is another time and different activity.

Then to Lee Nails. To see Tammy and get a manicure. Tammy and her huband bought Lee Nails about a year ago. Tammy is 28. Her husband a bit older. Even her mother in law works in the business. The mother in law is 38. Tammy and her husband have 2 children. They are hard workers. An example is that they decided a few months ago to open on Sundays. A smart move! The place was busy yesterday.

I had intended to go to Don’s Place. Sunday afternoons are fun during pro football season. But I had my druthers. I preferred watching the final round of the Fed Ex golf tournament. So I went home.

Good golf! Even without Tiger. Jim Furyk did himself proud. Walked away with a total of $11 million!

This coming week is big time in the golf world. The Ryder Cup. In Wales. The best of the best playing!

Dinner was with the family at Lisa’s. Robert and Ally dominate the house. It is always an experience being with them.

Montessori is having a race next Saturday to raise money. One of the festivities is a one half mile race for kids. Robert is going to run in the race. He has been training in his physicval eduction class at Montessori for it. There will be a pasta dinner Friday night for the runners and whoever else wishes to attend. Robert is going to feel like a big deal! At the same time that he is being introduced to a new and healthy life activity.

Enjoy your day!

Where do I begin…..

I did not sleep well last night. Tossed and turned. Watched some TV. A couple of Tennessee Williams movies.

I generally start my blog talking about the morning, the sun rising, the water, the wind, the colors caused by reflected sun. Key West dawns capture mind and imagination.

I knew Tennessee Williams had lived in Key West for many years. I went to the computer around 2 in the morning to see if the story for the movie I had just watched was written while Tennessee Williams lived in Key West. The movie was Suddenly Last Summer with Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. I never found out. Though I suspect it was.

What I did discover at 2 this morning was absolutely terrific! Outstanding! The best!

And I could not sleep the rest of the night in anticipation of sharing it with you.

I read an essay. By Madeleine Blais. Based on an interview she had in 1979 with Tennessee Willims. She was a relatively young reporter at the time. She came to Key West specifically to do a story on Williams for the Tropic Magazine of the Miami Herald.

Let me make this observatiuon at the outset. Blais is one of the finest writers I have ever read! She does with words what a great artist does with a brush. I found her essay exciting!

Key West sunrises, for example. Something I knew were special. But never really thought about as such.

Blais quoted Tennessee Williams as saying he loved dawns in Key West. Williams referred to dawn as day time’s “great triumph over night.”

Many describe Key West. I do daily. But compared to Blais, we all merely try. She does it as no one else.

I am going to quote briefly from her essay About Tennessee Williams in Key West. Then you can decide for yourself if you agree with me.

Blais describes Key West as “…the place where we run out of East Coast, where the cabs are pink, the sidewalks buckle, roosters roam free, people applaud the sunset, every local restaurant has the best fish sandwich in town, the t-shitrts are vulgar, the cats have six toes, where in the early 90s Hooters went out of business because it was too Ohio, ceiling fans and balconies abound, the smell of beer competes with the smell of a new catch and the smell of night blooming jasmine, and where the sky and water are involved in some kind of sexy dance, blue on blue, and they let us watch.”

Need I say more!

You can read the entire essay at www.floridabookreview.com/id41.html.

The big hit of the day yesterday was grocery shopping.

I went alone.

Turned out Lisa, Corey and the grandkids were at Publix shopping, also. I asked Robert and Ally if they wanted to shop with Poppa. Yes, they both exclaimed! Lisa and Corey happily went on their way. The grandkids were with me.

A disaster!

The venture only lasted two aisles.

Both wanted to push the cart. I let them. Robert lasted about 10 feet. Then he was off and wandering the aisle. It was necessary for me to keep an eye on him. Ally said I will do it alone Poppa. Good, I thought. She ended up in the right place to push, but did not push. She put her feet up on the cart. I was pulling her and the cart from the front.

I find it difficult to do two things at one time these days. Here I had three. Shop, watch Robert and pull Ally!

Corey came around a corner. I said without hesitation…..they’re yours! He understood and laughed.

Today is Sunday. Always a good day. I approach it as a day of rest. A time to screw off.

Soon I will be engrossed in Meet the Press and the Chris Matthews show. This afternoon pro football at Don’s Place. This evening dinner with Lisa and the famly. In between I will read the Sunday papers.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Slept late this morning.

It is like getting up in the middle of the day. Eveything is in place and working. As it should be.

The sun is out. The sky is blue. An occasional cloud. The water is moving along. There is a slight breeze. The yellow MTV house across the way is glistening in the sunlight.

Yesterday morning’s radio show was a hit again! I am fortunate so many watch and listen.

Terrific response afterward both by e mail and telephone. The issues discussed yesterday were especially intertesting. Timely. Most of the events discussed had occurred during the past week.

One item I talked about was old hat, however. It has been around for about a year. Only not for me. I just discovered its existence this past week.

I am referring to the LFL. It is the opposite gender to the NFL, the National Football League. The LFL is the Lingerie Football League.

Yes, there is a football league for the ladies. It has been in existence for about a year.

The LFL consists of 10 teams. Their names fit the concept. Like Chicago Bliss, Philadelphia Passion, Miami Caliente, Dallas Desire, Los Angeles Temptation and San Diego Seduction.

I kid you not!

The ladies play two 17 minute halfs.

Their attire is lingerie, of course. Plus shoulder pads and helmets.

The league games are played friday evenings and are televised. Though I have never seen one.

The NFL has the Super Bowl. The LFL has its own super bowl game at the end of the season. It is called the Lingerie Bowl.

The 2011 Lingerie Bowl is scheduled to be played Sunday February 6, 2011. That is the same day as Super Bowl. The ladies’ game will be played during the half time of the Super Bowl game. On a different channel.

There are two reasons why I spoke about the Lingerie Football League on my radio show yesterday. One was practical. The other legal.

I advised Don at Don’s Place, Patrick at the Sports Page Bar and the other sports bars in town to start showing the LFL games. They show the NFL games on sundays. Their bars are packed. Lets give the ladies a chance, better stated equal time, on fridays.

The legal issue is the real reason I spoke about the LFL. It involves the uproar a couple of weeks ago involving female sports writer Ines Sainz.

I spoke to the legal issue a week ago on my radio show.

As you are aware, female sports writers are allowed in the dressing rooms of male sports teams. Even following a game when the players are showering, dressing and walking around nude.

This is a settled issue in the law and our present day culture. If a male reporter can enter a male team’s dressing room, so too can a female sports writer. The women cracked the glass ceiling in this regard.

As my Constiuutional Law professor Bill Loyd used to tell us in class…..What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!

Male reporters have the equal right to enter female team dressing rooms. But apparently rarely, if at all, do. I call it good taste. Even respect.

Sainz apparently got hastled a bit in the New York Jets dressing room and on the field. It hit the media big time!

Now comes the Lingerie Football League. Would the ladies involved like to have male reporters walking in their dressing room while they are walking around in various states of undresss or completely undressed?

I doubt it.

Nor do I believe that most men in a similar state in a male dressing room want a female reporter wandering about while the family jewels are exposed.

My stated remedy on the radio show a week ago was to stop reporters of either sex from entering a team’s dressing room at any time. The what is good for the goose is good for the gander theory applied in another fashion.

The solution is simple. Have a specified time and place set for after the game. Say one hour. At that time and place, all players appear. Clothed of course. And then questioned by the sports reporters, male and female alike.

It is called good taste. Sensitivity. Respect.

Enjoy your day!

I enjoyed my yesterday.

Basically only did two things. Final preparations for today’s radio show by day and bocce by night.

The Key West Lou Legal Hour radios at 10 am. KONK 1500 AM. The show can also be seen as well as heard worldwide on the intertnet at http://www.konkam.com/.

Join me for an interesting and fun time!

Some highlights include a decision by a Florida appeals court declaring the law against gay adoption unconstituional, the don’t ask/don’t tell mess, a tale of greed involving a California Mayor, the Lingerie Football League (you read me correctly), California’s Proposition 19 and legalization of marijuana for personal use, Montana weird dumb laws, an income tax disgrace, dog scent evidence in a Texas murder case, Virginia’s first female execution in over 100 years, the weird dumb lawsuit of the week involving Michael Vick, and a decisin by a Senegal Court forbidding child begging.

Terrific material! I love the research and preparation. I love sharing my findings with you. Listen/watch, if you can. You will not be disappointed!

Last night’s bocce match was one of the best I have ever participated in. Fun! Close! Tense!

It was a money game! My team and 3 others have this sort of side bet thing. When we play each other, $150 is at stake. A pot of $450 is accumulated during the season to pay for a season end party only for the 4 teams involved. The winning team pays nothing. The other 3 kick in $150 per team.

We played Fairfield last night. They are good! A bit better that us this season.

Both sides were wired. A must win for each side.

We did it! We won the match! Two out of three games!

The first game did not go well. We lost 16-11. I felt very uncomfortable at the end of the game. Not a good night ahead, I thought.

We came back in the second game, however. Big time! Won 16-3. Ho, ho!

The third game was for all the money!

It was close. A nail biter. The lead moved back and forth several times. We finally won 16-14.

Both sides agreed that last game was one of the best either side had ever played in.

I was terrific! No humility.

But every one on my team was terrific! David was outstanding. Spectacular is a better word! In that last game, within a short 10 minute period, David had 4 difficult shots. Impossible! He had to make each one. Could not be done!

He did it!

Michelle, Keith, Don, Erica and Herschel all contributed in one fashion or another. We did the job!
The Fairfield players were excellent! Good guys, too!

A talented team! Angus. He was on last night! Chris, too. Nate is always good. A natural athlete. Russ was there with his shots!

I met Nancy last night. She recently returned from Afghanistan. A lovely lady. She is friends with Herschel and Erica. Her first time at a bocce match. She made her contribution to the cause. Not as a player. As a spectator. She talked with the opposing players. The idle chatter affected their concentration.

It’s all part of the game!

I mentioned Russ earlier. Russ is Chief Chef at The Strip House. You will recall I maligned the place in yesterday’s blog. I was irritated by a $5 surcharge for sharing a $42 steak. Russ was aware of my comments. He looked at me cross eyed as I approached him for the first time last night.

Russ is a company man. The Strip House is a chain. His perceptioon, and correctly so, is that anything I say affects the company’s image nationwide.

Russ is a nice guy. I felt bad.

I felt worse when he told me that the $5 sharing charge has always been there. It is everywhere nationwide. My problem was that I had either never noticed it before or never reviewed my bill before. Probably the latter.

Mea culpa Strip House. Mea culpa Russ. But I still think the $5 sharing fee is a stupid charge in an expensive restaurant!

Enjoy your day! Again, listen in to the radio show at 10 this morning.