January 2008
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“THE RIGHTEOUS PATH
I got a brand new car that drinks a bunch of gas
I got a...”
– The Drive-By-Truckers An excellent new album by one of the best American bands out there. Everything they’ve done is great—this one is particularly on the money.
“Why, as a New York-based paper, are we not backing Rudolph Giuliani? Why not...”
– NY Times endorses John McCain for GOP primary: ”9iu11ani: ‘Cause racial fear mongering is a small price to pay for eradicating squeegie men”
Rita
Today would have been my mom’s 70th birthday. She’s been gone now for over a third of my life. A long time by any measure. So much has happened since then! I spoke to my dad about this, and some other things today. It was nice. It always is. I’m certainly not immune from melancholy; it’s been a regular companion of mine for most of my life. Yet I really can’t say...
John Edwards, Funny Guy →
“Don’t give up on us baby”…David Soul, bad 70’s song. John Edwards is still the candidate with the best ideas—it’s unfortunate that he is running against the two “floodlights”, the iconic Obama and Clinton.
“When former Mayors Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins spoke publicly of Mr....”
– In Matters Big and Small, Crossing Giuliani Had Price - New York Times Is what I’m doing with these posts ”piling on” ?……Yes
For my Dad:
A Florida senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he floored it to 100 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left. ‘Amazing,’ he thought as he flew down I-75, pushing the pedal even more. Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw the highway patrol behind him, blue lights flashing and siren...
Erma Franklin (Aretha’s Big Sis) recorded...
GFC anyone? (first of some midlife ramblings)
So I’m writing this down because it has been bouncing around the back of my head for some time now. I have been (mostly) blessed to have spent the last 20 years of my life working for The New York Times. This newspaper, and indeed nothing else more epitomizes what a newspaper is than the Times, has allowed me some semblance of a definable “career”. I have learned and almost...
“The next schools chancellor, Rudy Crew, became a close friend of the Mayor’s,...”
– The Political Scene: Old Habits: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker