Archive for January, 2010
Went to NY General Post Office to get a postmark. BTW it isn’t 24/7 anymore but is still open on weekends.
Posted via email from franchin’s posterous
Posted: January 31st, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 1
At a close Knicks game vs Toronto
Posted via email from franchin’s posterous
Posted: January 28th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Comments: none
Midweek of the Last Week of January 2010
But there was no mistaking [Justice John Paul Stevens'] basic message. “The rule announced today — that Congress must treat corporations exactly like human speakers in the political realm — represents a radical change in the law,” he said from the bench. “The court’s decision is at war with the views of generations of… Americans.” [...]
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under Brooklyn, Manhattan, Washington, D.C..
Comments: none
See you later, Conan O’Brien, wherever you are.
“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people that watch: Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard [...]
Posted: January 25th, 2010 under Brooklyn, Los Angeles - Orange County.
Comments: 1
Stuff to notice in January 2010
Well, yes, there is that whole Jay Leno-Conan O’Brien-NBC thing, which is slowly winding down even if negotiations are still on-going (NBC could have foreseen this mess; Jay Leno, while not necessarily the Bad Guy, only wanted to keep his job, whatever that job might be – but really not helping resolve the situation; and [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Brooklyn.
Comments: none
Mid January Media
From the makers of the Tiger Woods CGI reconstruction of his car crash, Apple TV in Hong Kong has made the Leno-Conan-NBC fight understandable in any language.
For a fee, PropertyShark has old pictures of people’s houses, circa 1980’s. Ron at Kensington Stories has taken advantage of this.
The Kings Plaza theater finally bit the dust, to [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 1
The First Month of 2010
Been terribly behind on everything lately, possibly due to continuing shock that it’s freaking 2010.
The following was a commercial about the year 2000; just replace it with the year 2010, and you’ll get what I’m feeling: It’s Freaking 2010?!… We’re in the future… but where are the flying cars? As Avery Brooks (Sisko of “Star [...]
Posted: January 18th, 2010 under Brooklyn.
Comments: none
New Year’s 2010
Welcome to my annual New Year’s message for 2010. You’re seeing this because you’re my Facebook friend or have written to me personally in the past year. This is where I spend some time during New Year’s to compile some statistics, come up with some nostalgic musings, and to wish you a wonderful year to [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Comments: none