Monthly Archives: November 2012

Calm Down People

November 15, 2012 – 6:20 pm

In GIMME SHELTER, the epic 1969 film about the mayhem at Altamont, Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane beseeched the unruly crowd and the pool cue-wielding Hells Angels from the stage, “Calm down, people.” There was no calming down that crowd. Nor do the parties of Israelestine seem interested in peace. Yesterday the Israeli Defense […]

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You Bet I Would Natalia Vodianova

November 14, 2012 – 9:22 pm

Of course it’d have to be a wicked half-hour in a midtown hotel, since she’s married with the heir of the LV fortune and I’m in no shape to be wicked with a beauty like Natalia Vodianova. So you’re safe. Curses.

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7:03 AM

November 14, 2012 – 5:45 pm

Last month I started waking at 7:03am. I am not a light sleeper, but something was disturbing my slumber cycle. I opened the window of the Fort Greene Observatory to the morning air and heard a machine rumble. I immediately identified the source as the transformer powering the construction of a condo tower several blocks […]

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A Little Racist

November 14, 2012 – 9:20 am

After the Obamaslide a GOP friend complained about the electoral college system, saying, “Romney won nearly half the states and still lose the election.” “Obama won 26 states and Mitt only had 24. That’s less than half and he lost the popular vote too. The math adds up the same way. My guy got more […]

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A Little Secret

November 12, 2012 – 8:44 pm

Washington has expressed shock over the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus after his affair with a biographer and a former army officer came to light. At first I thought that the former general was ousted by a cabal of right-minded thinkers seeking to avenge his wrong-doings in Afghanistan and Iraq, however Petraeus’s meandering from […]

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