Saturday, November 26, 2011

Morons.

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I just caught a slice or two of Kurt Andersen's wildly-heralded radio show "Studio 360." He featured a writer and MacArthur Ge...
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A late-night call from Uncle Slappy.

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I got a call from Uncle Slappy late last night and I could tell even before I picked up the phone that something was amiss. I could tell fro...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Metaphor for a Wednesday.

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This morning I took one of my long and solitary walks around the Upper East Side. It had rained all night and a lot of people aren't wor...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

My father and the day after. A reprint.

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By some anomaly of my birth date, I was in first grade when I was just five. I never felt unable to keep up with kids who were, at least fro...

Something Happened.

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Joseph Heller's novel "Something Happened" has perhaps the most stirring, scary and riveting opening sentences I have ever rea...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

A dichotomy.

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When I was a little boy, my Cub Scout "den" took a trip up the New England Thruway two-and-a-half hours to New London, CT. New Lon...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Herring Maven.

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Long before Sam Breakstone sold cottage cheese for the Breakstone company, before Fred the Baker sold donuts and dedication for Dunkin' ...
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Rene Morel, 1932-2011.

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There's a really excellent obituary in today's "New York Times" which tells the story of Rene Morel, a master restorer of ...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

The value of Facebook.

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There is tremendous sturm and drang in our industry over the value of Facebook. Enormous expenditures have been dedicated to building Facebo...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

Pissed.

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I took my two-year-old Mac to the help desk this morning knowing full well that by all rights it ought to be called the hurt desk. It's...
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