For context check out the video on The Guardian [uk] website of the recently released footage of a young girl who apparently is intoxicated, steps out of the tube, can’t stay on her feet and rolls under the train. It seems so unlikely but the other night I was in a subway train that was …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
Grand Central Terminal 100 Years
Look at the enclosed site for some great pictures. These are really terrific photos… They say more than I can write. copy and paste to view. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/grand-central-terminal-turns-100/100451/
A Long Day’s Journey….
When a theatre production closes, there is a letdown. The cast and crew have worked, hopefully, closely together and intensely and then everyone departs to reality. I was on my way home and entered the subway station, dragging. I heard a gentle, not mournful, slide trombone playing. I found the player and as he was …
Compliments
Have decided to once each day, give a compliment to a stranger. Did it to a young woman with the most amazing head of curly hair. It was cold outside and she had it pulled back and tamed, sort of, with a wide wool head band. I caught her completely off guard and it was …
Cold!
There are a lot of examples of how cold it is: colder than the witches body part, colder’n a well digger’s ***, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, kinda nipply out there…and all of it is true. Walking home today from a early afternoon appointment, at one point I hailed a cab… …
He Smiles…
A friend told me a great story. He had been picked up by an ordered car service. While riding, he placed a call to a business contact. He conducted the conversation in French. His second call was to someone who spoke another language, which he also spoke. After he hung up, he rode in silence, …
One of Those Times…
She looked like a New England Grandmother; dressed head to toe in navy: rain resistant running pants, a navy anorak with hood, the only strange part was the rubber pad belted over her stomach. Her eyes were clear and her voice rather low, but articulate. She stopped me on the street and said ‘Do you …
Free Ride
Sitting on the bus when a small lady with an accent, approaches me and asks me for quarters. She is holding a 20 dollar bill in her hand. I ask her if she is needing the change for her ride. She says yes. I am perplexed that she has only $20, as most people have …
A City Perk
..after a long rehearsal… had a hankerin’ and that is what is great about the City. One can pop into any one of a dozen restaurants within two blocks on 9th Avenue and take home your palate’s heart-desire.
OMG An Inbox Christmas
My absolutely perfect blog administrator, fixed it so the spam to the site is all herded together into what resembles in my mind a sheep pen. But at the same time this goodness was put in place, unbeknownst to me, my email from you all fell away. Today I discovered 40 commenting messages in my …