Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Free is expensive.

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Like most people, I think, I have a good half-dozen email accounts. This is, of course, ridiculous. In my co-op, we get one six-inch by six-...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Sanguine thoughts.

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I just read an article about a veteran baseball player, Carlos Beltran, who at the age of 36, just signed a big contract to play for the Ne...

In olde New York.

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About 35 years ago when I was just getting out of grad school and looking very hard for a job, I was talking to a prospective employer, an ...

Fools. Greater and Lesser.

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I warn you at the outset, this will get a little heady, so fasten your seatbelts. There's an economic postulate called " The Grea...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Me. Me. Me.

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Jean Renoir, the director of more truly seminal movies than anyone else (look him up), once said "A director makes only one movie in hi...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

My father gets a gift from Mae Clarke.

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One day when I was about 14 my father decided he needed to tell me a story about Mae Clarke’s pubic hair. According to my father, I was 14 ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Uncle Slappy invents the future.

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As happens so often with me, last night I was visited once again by Dame Insomnia. This time she woke me not with a soft whisper and a gentl...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Uncle Slappy visits the Bronx.

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Uncle Slappy just called, precisely as I asked him to. He and Aunt Sylvie left our apartment early this morning and what with the unse...

A ditty.

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Mark Harris is a great writer that no one has ever heard of. He's most famous for having written "Bang the Drum Slowly." But t...

Dreams.

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One thing I've always been able to do is work while I'm asleep. That's not to say I find empty conference rooms or doze at my de...