The Missus and I braved the crowds on Friday to go shopping and personally stimulate the economy. Well, actually, we did some returning and exchanging along with some purchasing. Well going form retail store to retail store, I started thinking about the differences in layout and experience, so I had to pick up Underhill’s [...]
Category Archives: Misc
Watch Crazy
Those magazines ads finally got to me. You know those ads at the beginning of fancy magazines that advertise luxury watches? I think that they finally moved me to action: There was a banner ad on the NYTimes for a place called “Watch Avenue,” and I clicked and searched and fell in love with a [...]
Bluffing versus Rolling the Dice
One of my favorite blogs to read is “Riding the F-Train,” written by an old college friend who became a lawyer, quit that, and writes about poker. His posts are usually great because he is writing about poker games and things actually happen. There’s a lot of narrative there.
Recently, he had a post about what [...]
“Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends”
“Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends” is the title of an essay by Judith Viorst that, when I was an editor of writing textbooks, was in far too many anthologies that used an outdated form of writing instruction. (rhetorical modes)
It’s also a way to describe my old publishing friends whom I don’t work with [...]
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George W. Bush Ruined My Lunch
Dubya can’t do anything right. Today while coming to the financial district to speak about the glories of the free market, he caused the police to close off the street where I was going to get Indian food. I had to get a panini instead.
When Obama is president, I’ll be able to eat whatever I [...]
Comfort in History
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been looking at historic results trying to predict what’s going to happen on Tuesday. I know that it’s swinging Obama’s way, but I just don’t believe it. And then there’s this from a NYTimes op-ed:
There have only been two upsets in my lifetime. And, Obama is clearly going [...]
The view from my window
I know better than to blog about work. It should just never be done, and I’m not going to start. I have to say that it’s odd getting back to the workforce. And, it’s particularly challenging starting out at the bottom wrung again. However, this is the view from my window:
All I can think when [...]
Otis Moment
I just had what I am calling an “Otis Moment” at lunch.
I was waiting in line at a soup place, and when I got to the front, I forgot what I wanted. I said, “Where did it go?” because I was looking for it on the menu. In response, the soup guy muttered something, turned [...]
A Mountain of Veg.
So, I had the chance to get a crate of farm fresh veg from the bar I go to. (Long story.) Anyhow, look at all we got for $30:
Tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, a monster zucchini, potatoes, celery, other greens, a leek, some tiny peppers. And a few things we had trouble identifying:
The root on the [...]
Summer Goals: Results
Okay, I am taking a break from constantly checking political sites (Click Kos, Click Sullivan, Click Huffpost, and Repeat) to address my goals again.
A while back, I wrote out my incredibly ambitious goals for the summer. Here’s what I got done:
Writing
I knew I wasn’t going to get all this done, but I managed to get [...]
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This makes me laff . . .
. . . It was mentioned in a Cheers & Jeers on Daily Kos:
Boredom and Discontentment? Nah.
Last week I was visiting my mother in Florida, and after she went to bed, I was thinking about writing.
Earlier this summer, I posted some incredibly ambitious goals for this summer, and –surprise! — I haven’t achieved any of them. The vast majority of them are writing goals, and as I was in Florida last [...]
sidetracked
I was going to blog about all the things I’ve been doing (Batman movie, another movie, lunches, etc.) or am slated to do (analyze businesses, get people into b-school, possible music internship) since my last post about procrastinating.
But then: MUPPETS!
Check out the link about NEW muppet videos on youtube.