Accompanied by lots of thunder, blown umbrellas and racing people over the sidewalk. Cabs must be made of sugar, they all disappear in the rain as if melted away.
Monthly Archives: July 2016
City Art – Park Avenue
One of the unexpected discoveries… walking along and suddenly there is a trove of history at your feet.
This Article is SO Good
Anne Kadet – WSJ -[thank you to reader AdT for forwarding this!!] “Last week, while shopping at a tiny produce market on Mott Street, Giselle Isaac found a crazy bargain: fresh ginger for 50 cents a pound. She promptly stuffed a plastic bag to bursting with the pungent root…. Ms. Issac… lives way up…in the …
Response from Reader
‘Suddenly Last Summer was written by Tennessee Williams not Edward Albee’ –of course it is, thank you for pointing out the apparent mistake. -the discussion of this play came up in the class on Albee, is what I meant to convey.
Suddenly Last Summer
In acting, I have these ‘ah-ha’ moments. They arrive because I have neither a background in English literature nor Theatre. The phrase ‘Suddenly Last Summer’, was well-known to me, but had no depth. Took the ‘work/play’ apart in a class with Austin Pendleton in discussion about the playwright Edward Albee. I had never seen the …
Revenge
Reading a new book written and published by a friend, she had a quote in the story she said everyone knew: ‘Revenge is like taking rat poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die’. Went on-line to see if I could find an attribution. Could not. But read a lot of interesting quotes …
The Choice
Walking along 14th Street with K after a jazz concert at the Scandinavian House, to a West Village restaurant, on a hot night, I called for a stop to buy a bottle of water. Right outside the deli was an ice bath with bottles standing up to their necks in ‘cool’. As I turn to …
Another Reader’s Response
Why does it matter as a presidential candidate? No one cared when Clinton seduced an intern when he was already President! And in the White House, no less. These things don’t matter to the American electorate any more. Maybe sad, but true. Yes, we dislike Trump, but let’s find substantive criticisms to dislike and not …
One Reader’s Response
Also the facts, which OUGHT to be of interest to all those so-called Christians, that he is an unapologetic adulterer (his open affair with Marla Maples while married to Ivana), and that Melania is his THIRD wife…
The Donald’s Marriage
Why does no one note that his wife is of an age that she could be his daughter. He is 70, she is 46. and their son could be his grandson. Are we not going to ever address this?