Why do cigarette smokers get to toss their cigarette butts willy-nilly along the sidewalk, curb or out the window of their car. They don’t appear to ever be busted for littering or fines, like dog owners who don’t pick up after their dogs. Anybody have an answer to this?
Author Archives: The Chronicler
Sponges
Kitchen sink sponges this summer have been turning rancid. This is new to me. I buy the packets of ‘real-sponge’ from Trader Jo’s. They have always worked exceedingly well. However this summer not so, so I went to my local drug store and paid a lot more to buy ‘anti-mildew-sponges in a package of two. …
$849.00
Clearly I was so riled up in writing this… lots of errors.. so corrected: …is the price for ONE orchestra seat [main floor seating] for the stage play Hamilton, January through May of next year, This is outrageous. This price is not for ‘after-market’ resale tickets; this is the price of a pre-sale offering. If …
Summer Storm
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.
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 …