Monthly Archives: September 2012
Ball point pen on today's newsprint From today's NYT Learning how to fry an egg from a Velazquez painting. What could be more Spanish? Velazquez, Old Woman Cooking Eggs Added on 9/13/2012: I wanted to add that I made eggs this morning for Donna and I using this method and they were delicious. ...
Read MoreOn September 16, 2001, I was scheduled to run the Philadelphia Half Marathon. I paid the registration fee, did my training, booked a hotel room and was looking forward to the event. I like to run first thing in the morning, but on September 11, 2001, I didn't run. With the marathon five days away, I was scaling back my mileage and resting up for the race. Everyone knows what happened next. As the crow flies, our home sits 22 miles from the World Trade Center site. Like many others, I felt paralyzed. I did manage to complete the above drawing for a show benefiting victims of 9/11, but with uncertainty in the air I didn't want to travel away from my family. I didn't run the race. This year, together with my son Andrew, I've been training to run that half marathon in Philadelphia. The run will be on November 18th and I will be running for the children of firefighters and other victims ...
Read Moreball point pen on today's newsprint Was the Secret Service caught sleeping? No, he asked first. UPDATE, Monday 4:18 pm: This morning I was going by the New York Times version: Mr. Van Duzer said that he got permission first. Speaking to reporters after, he said an agent “said I was all right as long as I didn’t take him away.” But this afternoon I heard him interviewed and he denied that he got permission, saying it was spontaneous. Some advice, if you're on a rope line, I wouldn't try it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-6JUC31D2M ...
Read MoreBall point pen on today's newsprint Donna and I were watching the Republican National Convention last week and we noticed they were playing "I Want You To Want Me" on the convention floor between speeches. Donna was clever to point out that the song was by Cheap Trick. Ha! The Democratic National Convention starts tonight. Can Obama secure a victory minus the enthusiasm of 08? Time will tell, in the meantime, what song will best define this election for Obama? Will it be- BB King's -The Thrill is Gone or Billie Holiday's - Come Rain or Come Shine or Jackson 5's - Give Me One More Chance or Louis Armstrong's - When The Saints Go Marching In 0r Bob Dylan's - Paths of Victory some other? ...
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