Archive for April, 2004
Inflection Point
The last few days were full of momentious change, decision, intriegue, dilemma, and drama. Everything becomes clearer, more complicated, more concise. The emotion is: Jump! Well, what is below?
For those in the know, my co-worker R– prior to retiring, eloped across the street at the municipal hall and got married to D. He’s [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Thursday into Friday
- NY Times Quotation of the Day - “Doesn’t the court have some business intervening at some point if it’s the Hundred Years’ War or something?” - Justice Stephen Breyer, on the open-ended detention of Americans as enemy combatants.
Yeah, so, justices of the Supreme Court, what will happen with civil justice in an era [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Off to Taipei
I’ve been remiss, but last night in the US of A and a quickie post. Flying off to Taipei on my latest life adventure. Too busy and stressed out to get emotional about things but it has been a tough few weeks.
I so hate packing and am so bad at it that i [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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F Train of Dreams
You can’t make this up.
Scene 1:
Singing panhandler croons an a capella version of “Stand By Me”. No money gained. William Hung could have done better.
Scene 2:
Black woman with really big poofy hair and bustier as troubadour. Her hispanic boyfriend has the guitar case in tow. Strums a lyric, then asks, “Am I over-analyzing…”.
Scene 3:
Couple playing [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Monday into Tuesday
Sunday’s NY Times had an interesting article on “Alias” - thought it was a good read. The episode itself - well, that was just nuts. So, Secret Agent Sydney and her sister are part of the Rambaldi prophecy and crazy adventures are their family legacy - and yet… the writers may still [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
Comments: 2