Monday, December 8, 2014

Suck.

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This is my third attempt to write a post this morning. The first one--which I began typing on the M15 around 56th Street--I couldn't ge...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Brutality. Police and otherwise.

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We've heard a lot of late about police brutality. But that phrase downplays the bigger problem we're facing in America. Police...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

By the way.

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If you want to learn the real root causes behind the slow diminishment of the advertising industry, read the about the destruction and havoc...

Goodbye Stuart Elliott.

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I'll say it flat out. I never thought much of Stuart Elliott, advertising columnist for "The New York Times." He followed a ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Writing with your eyes closed.

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There was an obituary in “The New York Times” yesterday of a writer I had only scarcely heard of, Kent Haruf. Haruf (rhymes ...

Football and advertising.

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I am not a fan of professional football.  Never really have been. It's too big, too violent, too corrupt. Ray Rice and his il...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Early morning and the cold hard light.

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When you've lived your life in one place, or in nearly one place, for as long as I've lived in New York, every day, every walk down ...

Beware of Ideology.

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I'm reading a book--doing research on a book I am trying to write--about Prohibition and its effects on New York City. The Drys saw a ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Dark Monday.

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I just read something in "The New York Times" that really got me a little down. It was a report of the death, four years ago, of...

Some slogans.

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I'd guess that less than 1% of Americans know what the Latin slogan printed on some of our money means. "E pluribus unum" tran...