Saturday, June 07, 2008

Walking the Bridge.

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I've made it a habit, more mornings than not, to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, do a lap around the City Hall Park Fountain, and walk ba...

Clinton concedes; Collins comments cogently.

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Gail Collins has a valedictory for Hillary's campaign on today's New York Times op-ed page. After quoting some despairing remark...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Gotta read this.

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Twiffer on elitism . I've been cogitating about a post on the same topic. It may yet happen. (I know, "Promises, promises... ....
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So sad that it's come to this.

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As we anticipate the passing of this kidney stone of a Democratic primary campaign, Rumproast dubs HRC "Sen. Veruca Rodham Salt"....
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Goodbye to a legend.

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I'd like to think that Buddy, the Bopper and Richie (not to mention the King, Eddie and good ol' Roy) were tuning up, getting read...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Alice in Wine Blog Land

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A while back, someone offered me a taste of a California cabernet sauvignon. My impression was of a suspension of Woo-Woo-Welch's grape...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Auf wiedersehen, Franz

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...I have been concerned with...the way the dynamics and iconography of the Great War have proved crucial political, rhetorical, and artisti...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

From my window this afternoon.

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The sound of an idling diesel engine brought me to the window, where I saw a busload of blondes in hot pink dresses competing to be the next...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Remembering Korea

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Nobody wanted to call it a war, except those who fought in it. It could have been over soon after it began, thanks to General Douglas MacAr...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Is Obama "too intelligent" to be President?

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In an op-ed in Thursday's New York Times, Nathan Thrall and Jesse James Wilkins chided Obama for quoting from JFK's inaugural addr...
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Quote of the day.

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Barack Obama has become the Prince Caspian of the iPhone hordes. --David Brooks, "The Alpha Geeks" , New York Times, May 23, 2008...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

La plus ça change, ...

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... la plus c’est la même chose . (A tip o' the hat to Instaputz .)
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Feh!

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In my last Mets post , I wrote: "Just don't backslide." Being the Mets, of course they did . Update: The humiliation is compl...

So, just what is art, anyway?

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In Little Murders (1971), directed by Alan Arkin, with screenplay by Jules Feiffer , Elliott Gould (seen at left, in stained white suit) p...
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Leon Kass wants you to drop that ice cream cone, NOW!

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As a member, and former chairman, of the President's Council on Bioethics, Leon Kass has played an important role in determining the Bu...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Chicken soup for the Mets fan's soul.

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Two decisive wins over the Yanks, the latest featuring the so far wildly inconsistent Oliver Perez over the redoubtable Chien-Ming Wang by ...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Music for one apartment and six drummers.

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Do try this at home.

Can it get any worse than this?

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The Mets have lost three of four to the worst team in their division, and in the final game of the series were unable to score a run agains...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Wedding scene from Little Murders

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This probably is as comprehensive a summary of what y'all in God-fearing Red State America think about us anomic coastal elites as has...

Oh. My. God.

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I need this like I need another Republican administration. That, and having Lastings Milledge support the "curse of the ex-Met" ...
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Friday, May 09, 2008

Strange are the ways of Google

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My Sitemeter tells me that the fifteen thousandth visit to S-AB was from New Delhi, and came to the blog via a Google search for "play ...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Cicely Nichols, 1937-2008

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I can't remember when I first met her, except that it was some time in the late 1970s. I'm sure of where, though; the bar of the Li...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008

iPod Log 3 -- Xenophilia Edition

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My iPod music library includes songs in eleven languages other than English.* The other morning, the iPod went on a xenophiliac binge, play...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

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Dear IOZ, Quel horreur! I cannot bear the thought of another day without your bracing negativity. Ever thine, Sexually backward patriarch. ...

Nine unearned runs?

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I hoped that the ghost of the 1962 Mets had departed this vicinity when the Polo Grounds stadium was demolished. Sadly, no. The current ve...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

FIAT Topolino

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Cutest car ever? At least tough competition for the bug-eye Sprite. Brought to you by those wonderful folks at Fix It Again Tony. This on...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Ben Stein is a jackass.

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And to think, I used to like the guy. Thanks to Archaeopteryx and Pharyngula for setting me straight. Addendum: I don't agree with...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

A treat for TS and Blue Texan.

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My friends Ross and Kathryn Petras produce a desk calendar called The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said . On this year's calendar, the quo...
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Fouad is out of jail.

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A friend who is traveling in the Middle East e-mailed me this item from Arab News, in which the wife of Saudi blogger Fouad Al-Farhan is ...

Paul Simon, "American Tunes", at BAM.

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Saturday night, my wife and I had the privilege (thanks to a neighbor who had two tickets she couldn't use) of attending Paul Simon'...
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