Life as it unfolds with all its surprises….
This trial that just ended with Ellen Pao losing her complaint of bias against Kleiner Perkins is important for a number of reasons. All of those reasons can be found in the New York Times account of the complaint and the trial. What I found fascinating was the similarity to a play in progress for …
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Today, I was lost in the East Village. 1. I am almost never there. 2. As I walked by 2nd Ave and 7th Street. I noted the french fry shop… the chairs sitting outside and how small it was. I was on edge all morning. And then at 3:15 the exact place was engulfed in …
Below is another letter from “Spike” of Smalls Jazz. So well said. Applicable to all forms of life. Dear Friends: I recently paid a visit to my father who lives on the New Jersey shore. I took him out for a steak at a local steak house that had been there forever. We sat in …
Two hours, on a Friday night. Packed house at BB King. And ‘Mengus’ only plays the Blues. No jazz, no R&B only the Blues. Nothing else like it! Livin’ in the City!
Cigarette butts, spittle, and other mucus fluids, from the mouth, onto the sidewalk. The men who do this, what gives them the right? The snow has melted, the cigarette butts are in vast displays outside on the sidewalk in front of every bar and lounge. During the snow time, loads of other items were being …
Today I had reason to revisit the Bernie Madoff story. A very City story. The story ends with the family: the father in prison for 150 years, both sons dead, one from cancer and one from suicide and the mother is living alone somewhere. What kind of life is there for a woman in her …
Have been hoping to catch one of these fashion plates without being too conspicuous. Perhaps other cities have the same garb for their dogs? Saw one yesterday, and he had three black ones and one blue. Guess he lost one, like one loses socks in the dryer. I get that it’s to keep the salt …
If among your friends you have one who does not accept the scientific findings supporting ‘Climate Change’ [some folks got hung up on the word ‘warming’] let them come to the City pronto. Yet another early morning snow storm. Yesterday it rained. Rain began Tuesday, early evening and by Wednesday afternoon, on the west side …
Read the current newspapers, then book a seat at this play at Signature Theatre. Well cast, directed, and a powerful script/story.
Read this quote the other day: resonated…The fact that there’s a highway to hell and only a staircase to heaven, says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers. [unattributed]