Gordon Hopkins

Business Matters

Published by admin on Fri, 12/13/2019 - 1:14pm
Sebastiano “Yano” Caniglia was one of the best known names in Omaha for decades. He was the proprietor of Mr. C’s Steakhouse, one of the best eats that ever was in Omaha or anywhere. I had my after-graduation party there. The whole city mourned that day the restaurant closed it’s doors for the last time.
This story is not about him.
There was another Yano Caniglia in Omaha. With a name like that, they were often confused, naturally. If fact, when the other Yano Caniglia died back in 2006, “Not Mr. C” was at the top of his obituary.

Items Of Interest: Anything For A Buck Edition

Published by admin on Fri, 12/06/2019 - 1:13pm

That’s What You Think

Published by admin on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 2:45pm
You will notice elsewhere in these pages a story about State Senator Tom Brandt visiting our humble burg recently. That story was written by me. He discussed a number of legislation currently in the works at Nebraska’s halls of government.

Future Fashion

Published by admin on Wed, 11/27/2019 - 12:23pm
When my father was growing up, men wore suites and ties and hats. They wore them everywhere. They got dressed up to go to the movies or even just to hang out at a bar, drinking with their buddies.
I was born in the sixties. Hats had largely been relegated to “old-timer” status by then. I blame President Kennedy. He was the coolest of the presidents and one of the few that American men wanted to emulate. (For example, the election of FDR did not see a spike in overlong cigarette holders.) Kennedy was almost never seen wearing a had, so hats went out of favor.

Thankful For Junk

Published by admin on Mon, 11/25/2019 - 11:30am
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. It seems appropriate for me to write a little something about whatever it is I am thankful for. But what? I am thankful for so much. I am thankful for my books. I am thankful for chocolate. I am thankful Chevy Chase doesn’t have a talk show anymore. I am thankful I don’t have to cook Thanksgiving dinner. (My family is also thankful for that.)
I suppose I should pick something new, or at least new this year. So how about my car? Yes, I am thankful for my car.

Items Of Interest: Legal Eagles Edition

Published by admin on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 7:18am
I spend enough time in courtrooms to know the legal profession is not all John Grisham and Perry Mason. It can be incredibly boring, especially listening to the same arguments over and over again. Still, every once in a while, something new catches my attention.

I Object

Published by admin on Tue, 11/12/2019 - 1:31pm
What would Perry Mason do? What would Matlock do? What would the endlessly rotating cast of “Law and Order” and its endless spinoffs do? TV lawyers have been around for a long time, defending the innocent, punishing the guilty.
Real life is not like television. 
While this is an obvious observation, people have to be reminded of it from time to time. 

Halloween Movie Challenge V: King For A Week

Published by admin on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 12:47pm
So Halloween is over, but I still have one last week of movies to cover.
Stephen King. The biggest, best-sellingest writer in the world, bar none. Okay, maybe there is one author who is bigger than Stephen King, but he only wrote one book, and he’s got a pretty impressive distribution deal.

Halloween Movie Challenge III: The Doctor Is In(sane)

Published by admin on Fri, 10/25/2019 - 9:25am
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.”
― from “Frankenstein” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
 

You Throw Like A Girl

Published by admin on Tue, 10/15/2019 - 2:02pm
Last Wednesday, the Wilber-Clatonia girls softball team took on Milford. As a successful, world-renowned sportswriter, always at the ready, my boss asked me to go take some pictures of the game. Naturally, I said yes, because a fifty-plus-year-old man standing around in a park, taking pictures of teenage girls isn’t creepy at all.

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