Self-Absorbed Boomer

"[A] delightfully named blog", (Sewell Chan, New York Times). "[R]elentlessly eclectic", (Gary, Iowa City). Taxing your attention span since 2005.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

I take the Tim Sommer challenge: here's my top ten.

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A few weeks ago Tim Sommer, whose Noise, the Column graces the Brooklyn Bugle , responded to his friend Tim Broun, publisher of the blog ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Lauren Bacall

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The sad news keeps coming. Lauren Bacall, née Betty Joan Perske, a salesman's daughter who became one of the pre-eminent women of Hol...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Robin Williams, 1951-2014

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As most, if not all, of you know by now, Robin Williams died today. The photo at left, by Photographer's Mate Airman Milosz Reterski (...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The 13th Apostle by Dermot McEvoy

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One thing about historical fiction: if you know anything about the history, there are no spoilers. When I picked up The 13th Apostle , I k...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Clothes in pop music, part 1, 1955-63.

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My friend Moira Redmond has a blog called Clothes in Books . When she started it, I reminded her that Ayn Rand heroines favored high waist...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Photos from a "Hidden Harbor" tour.

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A few weeks ago my wife and I went on one of the Hidden Harbor tours presented by the Working Harbor Committee . These tours, which use cha...
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I was born in a city renowned in Vaudeville humor, Altoona Pennsylvania. My dad was in the military, so we moved many times in my childhood. We lived in rural England from the time I was five until I was eight, and I began my formal education in a county council school, where my being American is likely all that saved me from having my bottom caned. When I was eleven my father retired from the Air Force, and we settled in Tampa.I graduated from the University of South Florida and Harvard Law School. Since then, apart from two years' active Army duty, I have lived in New York City; and have lived in the Borough of Brooklyn for many years. I'm married to Martha Foley, an historian and archivist. We are proud of our daughter, Elizabeth, and our granddaughters, Ada and Sigrid.
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