Triscribe

Day: September 10, 2006

  • Try to Remember

    The late Jerry Orbach originated the character that sings the song “Try to Remember” from the musical The Fantasticks, now being revived on Broadway. Try to remember that time before September.

    Try to remember the kind of September
    When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
    Try to remember the kind of September
    When grass was green and grain was yellow.
    Try to remember the kind of September
    When you were a tender and callow fellow.
    Try to remember, and if you remember,
    Then follow….

    Try to remember when life was so tender
    That no one wept except the willow.
    Try to remember when life was so tender
    That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
    Try to remember when life was so tender
    That love was an ember about to billow.
    Try to remember, and if you remember,
    Then follow….

    Towers of Light

    A picture I took at the Brooklyn Promenade in 2004.

  • Weekend

    Friday night – went to see Mets v. Dodgers at Shea.  Umm, no, not a great games (Mets lost).  Mets won Saturday, but lost today, so I believe the magic number to clinch for the playoffs remain at 5.

    Watched most of the House season premiere.  Hmm.  House is insane, we know that, right?

    Star Trek celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

    The Brooklyn Book Festival is on 9/16/06.   How exciting!

    And then, there’s tomorrow.  Another somber anniversary.  If I didn’t know it has been, I wouldn’t believe it’s been five years.

  • cockroach and the toilet bowl

    Huge 2 incher fell into the toilet bowl a few days ago. I couldn’t flush him down, somehow the bugger was able to hang on the side of the bowl. So I just left him in there to give me an opening… then yesterday, he did just that. He wandered to the far side and exposed himself. I took a shower hose and hosed him into the water. He was struggling mightily to swim back to porcelain ground but I wouldn’t budge. The water turned brownish from his coloring…. Then slowly flushed the toilet continually hosing him down with the shower hose. He drowned. RIP.

  • Force of Nature and Personality

    Australia’s Steve Irwin laid to rest today in private. What will the institutions that he has built remain? What will Animal Planet do to replace the person who served in the role that Emeril Lagasse performs as the anchor for the Food Network? Ok, he was a little cocky and full of Australian character, but he also was a serious conservationist and ran Australia’s largest zoo. Hopefully his family will be able to carry on the franchise to the third generation. Let’s remember this spirited man.