From my article in yesterday’s USA Today: “Whether you adore him or abhor him, the next time Donald Trump trudges across your TV screen, make your children watch. “Gaze upon him,” you should insist. “Yonder walks one of the last great examples of ’80s Man.” Nonsense, you say; the world is crawling with people who …
The best part of my trip to Austin was that it set me up for a visit to my brother Matt and his smart, pretty daughters Michelle and Megan. Matt has lived in Arizona for almost two decades, but I have never visited him. I had a great time catching up with him and his …
Many thanks to the Civil War Roundtable of Austin, Texas, for inviting me to talk about Will Cushing at their meeting last Thursday. I had a great time: the talk went well, the crowd was large and friendly, and they bought a lot of books. In addition, the group was very hospitable. They bought me …
Elaine’s was certainly in its heyday in the early eighties when I worked for John Scanlon, but, odd to say, he was never part of that scene. I wonder why–everyone who hung there was someone with whom he would have aspired to associate. Over the years, I made a couple of appearances there–one or two …
My friend and client Lawrence Levy flew in from Palo Alto and treated me to a delicious lunch at Milos os West 55th Street while we discussed his exciting project, To Pixar and Back, his memoir of his days as COO of Pixar.
My friend Paul Buckhout invited me to tour Brooklyn’s venerable Green-Wood Cemetery with him. How could I say no?
Thanks to my pal David Jensen, I got to attend the Yanks-Mets game at Citi Field last Sunday night. What a lot of fun we had! The night was perfect, the seats were great, and the crowd was congenial. What we ended up seeing was in game in two parts: six innings of a tight …
Thanks to the religious devotion of our Jewish brethren, Ginny had off four days in a row, so we headed off to New Hampshire for a scenic-historical holiday. On Day One, we saw some aging, full-of-character industrial cities: funky Nashua, where we ate at a very nice Irish pub and saw their august Civil War …