Friday, December 31, 2010

New Year's, 1991.

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On New Year's Eve, 1991, I was trapped in my office at a midtown high-rise. I was staying all night, or planning to. The agency was pitc...

2010.

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I've noticed from a lot of my Facebook friends that they are wishing goodbye and good riddance to 2010. The prevailing sentiment seems t...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Advertising and snow removal.

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If you live in or around New York, or I suppose just about anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard, over the past week, you've been inundated w...
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"Yeah, but it sucks."

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Last night my wife and I went to the Metropolitan Opera to see their production of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande." It made m...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The usefulness of niche.

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Somewhere along the way, some book I was reading mentioned the 19th Century Austrian composer Anton Bruckner and a particular symphony he co...
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Soviet history, 1917-1953.

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There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Snowy New York.

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It's snowing like a sonovabitch and cold as a witch's teat outside, as Salinger's Caufield would say. The wind is blowing hard, ...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Good writing from Jonathan Swift and A.O. Scott.

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"Gulliver's Travels" with Jack Black is reviewed in today's "New York Times" by A.O. Scott, writing as Swift. We...
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Irony.

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There's a guy on jury duty with me who works for the New York Department of Sanitation. (This is one of the joys of jury duty--seriously...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

You gotta have heart.

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If you're a believer, as I am, that we are living through an era of panem et circenses, in which the masses are appeased by spectacles a...