Wonderful night last night seeing my girlfriends even if the 80s music piped so loud through Scampo made us feel more like dancing than chit chatting across a big round table. But today, we got up late, and in a snap set out to see Boston on foot. After traipsing through the Common already barren and winterized, freezing our buns off, we raced down Newbury Street towards Patagonia and left with enough warm clothing to…
How can you measure yourself without a benchmark – what is good if you don’t know bad – is it difficult to get ahead while your colleague, a friend lags? Is it hard to be content in love when you know others covet what you have? We were discussing a friend who did not get invited to participate on a literary proposal – on one hand, it says a lot to be associated with a…
New Rochelle – guy sits down says he heard the economy is so bad, gays are shopping at WalMart.
Take it from the Feldsteins – the Jews – my peeps – we didn’t invent comedy, but we sure know how to leverage it – I was in the car on my way to the train station in Connecticut yesterday morning – we were packed snuggly in the back seat when I saw out the window from my middle position a large open field full of geese. My colleague was explaining something to all of…
Here in New York, I look closely at shoe shine men and wonder if I might not see someone I know. The times are that bad, perhaps. A few friends who follow the stock market from an armchair perspective have taken to sending me emails that are abysmal portents of doom with subject lines like 30 reasons why this is the worst depression known to man — no hyperbole there. Is my Pollyanna about to…
The other day Al Quaeda sent out a message with base insults towards our president to be – seems the fact that we elected a Black man with a Muslim father might take some of the edge off of their cause. What I wanted to know is why these guys get top billing on all of our newspapers. I mean if some white skinhead idiot freak from Utah calls the pres to be a racial…
Had cocktails with a colleague and discussed babies babies babies and how to get one and with that weighing heavy on our minds, we took a cab to Chelsea and met a friend at a tapas joint called El Quinto Pino – an aside is T tells me on el quinto coño translates to bumfuck Egypt. Meanwhile, we had a delicious bottle of Planeta red wine and yummy spinach and chickpea stew, goat cheese with…
New York has been cold not as chilly as I had anticipated and of course, everyone has the heat cranked up so high, my lips are cracking. But from home I get a missive from the dog walker and I instantly miss my zoo. The world here is in a quandary – is this the great Depression? Back home, I hear the weather turned, it’s cold and maybe a frost tonight – which means the…
It’s cold but doesn’t feel as awful as I anticipated particularly as I am bundled to the hilt. Reminds me of when I was walking home from downtown San Francisco to North Beach where I lived and this homeless guy who was at the same corner every day – who was a nasty dog – said to me as I passed bundled with scarf, hat, gloves and heavy coat, “It’s not that cold, Bitch.”
I wrote earlier about how Whole Food likes to usurp someone else’s idea and then make their own generic reproduction of the item. EXCEPT Whole Food’s never tastes as good as the original. Well, then there is this water issue. Coke and Pepsi decided to enter the water business EXCEPT they don’t get it – they are refurbishing tap water not providing spring water and it TASTE LIKE SHIT but now, you can’t buy Evian,…