Happy Hour Heretics

04/22/2024

As I do believe the plague is over - anyone else interested in meeting again?

10/28/2022

12/19/2020

I never knew deep-down, bone-chilling cold until I joined Grace Church’s Christmas carolers in my early teens. You’ll hear the story in Episode Thirty-nine of Tales of a Canarsie Boy.

Well, it’s that time again; time when “that damn George Michael song” stealthily glides from store to store like a sleazy private eye following a cheating spouse. Nat King Cole croons about...

11/15/2020

I began my memoir recalling times I’ve felt judged by others. This week we come full circle with “Judgment Day,” Episode Thirty-eight of Tales of a Canarsie Boy.

My first couple of decades held a lot of judgment. I grew up in a religion that preached the claim of its founder: “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Yet every move we made in church or, were we...

11/01/2020

How did a Canarsie boy wind up at a Bible college in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? Find out in Episode Thirty-six of Tales of a Canarsie Boy.

I’m not sure when the thought of college first entered my mind. Mom only had an eighth grade education, and Pop dropped out of high school, finishing years later in night classes. My brother quit...

10/26/2020

Hospitality was something we Baisleys learned early and often, as you’ll see in Episode Thirty-five of Tales of a Canarsie Boy.

In spite of my bubble gum robbery when I was five and my short career in drug dealing and organized crime, I was basically a good kid. I credit my parents for that. Mom and Pop trusted me, and I...

10/18/2020

Why did my jaw drop the first time I watched Goodfellas? Find out in Episode Thirty-four of Tales of a Canarsie Boy.

You know, we always called each other goodfellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, "You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He's a goodfella. He's one of us."...

10/04/2020

In the mid-1960s, four Liverpool musicians led the “British invasion” of America. I fell in line with Sgt. Pepper and marched with the Beatles through my early teen years. You’ll read about it in Episode Thirty-two of Tales of a Canarsie Boy.

The Beatles changed everything, and they did it by being only slightly different from everything else. Along with covering a lot of earlier rock & roll tunes, like the Isley Brothers’ Twist and...

09/10/2020

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A man stranded in 30 feet of water in upstate New York hanging on for dear life to his life jacket, his kayak and his new $1,400 smartphone - wound up getting rescued by men of the Lord: a floating tiki bar of priests.

08/16/2020

This is Leigh. Just wondering how everyone is faring? Miss you and pray you are well.