Sunday, May 17, 2009

Some New York harbor scenes.

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(Click on images below to enlarge.) Queen Mary 2 at her berth in Red Hook, Brooklyn, May 8, 2009, as seen from the Manhattan ramp of the Br...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

"[S]o authentic the pages smell like cheap gin."

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Michael Simmons, on Barney Hoskyns' new Tom Waits biography, in LA Weekly .
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Jazz and the visual arts.

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Michael Sorgatz, Jazz Band at the Park (©2009 Michael Sorgatz; image posted with permission) There is a longstanding connection between j...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Mets seem determined to make a fool of me.

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All I had to do was get snarky about their early season woes, and what do they do? Take three of four from the defending champ Phillles, w...
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Saturday, May 09, 2009

Stephen Bruton, 1948-2009

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Stephen Bruton was an immensely talented guitarist, singer and songwriter who was part of the Texas generation and milieu that produced Ji...
Friday, May 08, 2009

How are the (no longer Grateful) Dead like the Bank of America?

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Michael Simmons gives the answer in this piece from LA Weekly .
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

The Cascades, Grace Jones, and John Fogerty on rain.

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After a short break, the rain that was the City's companion for the past four days has returned. One of my Facebook friends commented a...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009

Attila, lord of all he surveys.

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Still, his sister got there first . (Posted in response to my mother-in-law's request for more cat pix.)
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Some good news for Mets fans.

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It's looking less and less likely that we'll have to worry about another end-of-season collapse.
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Downtown Manhattan: a study in architectural contrasts.

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At the bottom center of this photo (taken from the Manhattan side ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge) is the upper portion of an architectural gem,...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Louise Crawford of OTBKB to teach blogging class.

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If you're considering starting a blog, or have recently taken up blogging, and live in the New York City area, you may benefit from atte...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Rooftops, Lower Manhattan

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Taken from the Manhattan Bridge pedestrian walkway, April 25, 2009.
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Headlights and The Love Language at the Bell House, Brooklyn, April 24

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Last night my wife and I made our first visit to the Bell House , a night club and entertainment venue located in a former warehouse near B...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Mediocrity, thy name is Mets.

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Yeah, it's early. But, trust me, a loss in April counts just as much as a loss in September. I can't add much to what Jon Lewin o...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Is AOL News the on-line National Enquirer?

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Consider some of today's top stories: Ex-astronaut claims government cover-up of truth about UFOs . Florida woman attacked by wild hog ....
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Rice 'n' ribs from Augusta, GA in Brooklyn Heights

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I saw this van parked on Columbia Heights at Cranberry Street this morning. I took the photo with plans to publish it on Brooklyn Heights B...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Charlie Gracie

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When I was in sixth grade at Eglin Air Force Base in northwest Florida, we had "social dancing" in the combination dining room an...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

T-Bird, early '60s vintage.

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I saw this on my morning walk. Of course, it brought to mind this Beach Boys song:
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Capt. Phillips rescued.

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The good news has just broken that the U.S. Navy succeeded in rescuing Capt. Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama from his pirate captor...

Drat! Mets cursed.

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Mets picked by Sports Illustrated to win the World Series . Could any omen be worse? Right now, they're one above .500 , if anyone can m...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Headline of the week:

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"Atty Had to Lay Off Wife" (from the ABA Journal ). Update: From the same source , a clue as to why some lawyers may have to sle...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Whale watching? Try Brooklyn.

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Some twenty or so years ago, I was on the phone with a lawyer in Seattle who represented my then employer in some litigation. We were discu...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Mets win opener.

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Starting their season on the road against Cincy, the Mets managed a 2-1 win . On the pitching side, the omens are encouraging. Santana wen...
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Lisa Swan loves Citi Field.

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Lisa Swan, the (may I still use this term without being unforgivably un-P.C.?) distaff side of Subway Squawkers , and, unfortunately, the Ya...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

More usage pedantry: the "rein" vs. "reign" syndrome.

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This from today's Wall Street Journal: The high court dismissed the Philip Morris appeal without issuing an opinion, ending the third ap...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

Lawyers, whips, and money.

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Who knew mortgage fraud could be sexy ?
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Pierre Bonnard, "Late Interiors", at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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About a month ago I had an appointment on the Upper East Side; afterward, I had some spare time and decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Das Rheingold (not the beer).

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As I mentioned in my immediately previous post, yesterday my wife and I attended a panel discussion at the Metropolitan Opera on Wagner...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

From The Met to The Met: a walk across Central Park to the West Side

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This afternoon I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (a.k.a. "The Met"), located on the east side of Central Park in the lower ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

"A Waalworth of a skyerscape..."

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...of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitectitiptitoploftical, wi...
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