The signer is back in City Park putting wooden signs by the dog shit that owners leave behind. For Thanksgiving the message was, “Have a Crappy Thankgsiving!” and for Christmas we have, “Merry White Trash Christmas!” – sometimes the signs are dark like the one that said, “Your Owner is a Loser” or “Thanks For Leaving Your Shit” but mostly they are quite humorous and seasonal in their message. What is the thing about people…
When I was walking through the park this morning on this chilly December morning bearing some resemblance to winter, I thought to myself, maybe I keep losing all these things because I’m being tested about my nonattachment endorsements. I lost all my favorite clothes and vintage Wonder Woman shirts in Croatia because…, I lost all my 8900 Ipod songs (recovered most now) because…, I lost all the pottery I bought at Pepperwood Pottery after years…
I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism. -Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978). Um excuse me while I divagate but on the subject of gold and China buying it – China has since the beginning of the 2000s started to stock pile gold and to trade with Russia in its…
I have many traditions that I honor even though I am more secular Jew than not – I light the menorah every night of Hanukkah, I eat matzo during Passover, I fast for Yom Kippur, and eat honey and apples on Rosh Hashanah. I have given up needing turkey on Thanksgiving and pretty much the need to cook most of the meal. I just like to gather with loved ones and feast. For my mother’s…
T square is enroute home having jumped through the last hurdle – the flight from Atlanta to New Orleans – and so in a little bit over an hour, they will touch ground. Yippee. Look how much Tin aged while he was gone::::::
So I was telling a friend that 2011 is going to be austerity year for us and she said, wow, us too. Then she sent me this from thebigpicture newsletter – note the second bullet. Tuesday Long Reads Merriam-Webster’s most searched word in 2010: Austerity Inflation stat update Kass: Surprises for 2011 The Dark Side of the Gold Boom – Part II: Toxic Gold in Nigeria LEH: Its All Good Now! Europe still can’t turn…
I went out with friends last night for dinner and the youngest of us was about to turn 50. Our waiter was this sassy, handsome young fey boy who tickled us with his youthful naivete and good humor. We all came home and watched Sordid Lives, yes, one of us had a DVD of it in his truck – go figure. I fell asleep halfway through and had to crawl home, but I do want…
Minutes before midnight tonight the sun will have tilted the farthest away from the earth as it is going to get for a year and we will be in midwinter, or the beginning of winter, and for that minute or so of the Winter Solstice we will have the shortest day and the longest night. However, it is 74 degrees here and about 100 percent humidity so it sure doesn’t feel like Winter. I look…
I was reading in the New York Times Magazine about this physicist who believes in parallel universes and it was a very timely read as lately I have been having these weird photo frame occurrences. I’ll be speaking to someone and I blink and then it’s as if the frame / lens has changed to a sharper hue or just a slightly different frame. I have noticed this many times lately and it is slightly…
I had a fitful sleep tracking the itinerary of T square coming home as the flight out of Zagreb delayed, the flight out of Paris delayed. They are still in Paris, yet to board, as the flight is now two hours delayed and Charles de Gaulle is a mess. I have called Delta Airlines about fifty times in the last 24 hours and I have this to say about that – every person I have…