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Friday night - siblings and I went to see the Holiday Lights at the Bronx Zoo (thanks in part to two complimentary tickets courtesy of the Daily News Sweepstakes that I entered - so cool to have won something, even if it is one of those random drawings!). The lights were very nice stuff. [...]

Had dinner with my NYU circle of writer friends. One of them has a new book out, Your Career Is an Extreme Sport . She also writes for the WSJ - check it out.
I wanted to get the book SSW mentioned, A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, because that would be [...]

As you might know by now, the earthquakes in Taiwan have isolated the country.  Quite the fun.
 
More laters,

Xmas gifts included gift cards (always useful); DVD’s (of tv stuff I do watch - always a good good to give to a tv person); and some books (Al Gore’s book, the tie-in to the documentary - should be an interesting read).
December reading included:
“The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage” by ex-inspector general [...]

Belated, but not forgotten: the passing of Joe Barbera. Considering how much Saturday morning cartoons I used to watch… Well, salute to the Barbera of Hanna-Barbera.
The soon-to-be-closing of Murder Ink, a NYC mystery bookstore; the NY Times prints the observations of the owner, Jay Pearsall:
A customer who worked at Carmine’s once said it seemed that [...]