My pal Bob Love bought me sushi yesterday at a nice place near 46th and Park whose name has already galloped out of my head. He had good news that the yoga book on which he has been working for so long has been making good progress through the editing stages. It was great to …
The New York Times, November 5, 2008
According to the site mongabay.com, the U.S. Bureau of the Census says MALANOWSKI ranks # 46944 in terms of the most common surnames in the United States for 2000. Out of a sample of 100,000 people in the United States, MALANOWSKI would occur an average of 0.16 times. The Census Bureau says that 95.07 percent were …
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, in this defining moment, change has come to America.”
Vote Number 400 in District 26 in the Town of Ossining, New York, on November 4, 2008, at approximately 2:30 PM.
Cara and I spent the morning with our friends Paul and Nadia Lindstrom shooting clays at the splendid facility at Orvis Sandanona in Milbrook. We had a lot of fun, especially Cara, who got to drive a golf cart.
In the days before the 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy appeared before an adoring, cheering throng at the old Boston Garden. “I do not run for the office of the Presidency after fourteen years in the Congress with any expectation that it is an empty or an easy job. I run for the Presidency …
The writer Lynn Phillips, who a few days ago requested a copy of the article “When Disney Ruled America” that I wrote for Spy, has written with her comments: “The article does indeed live up. Particularly once Eisner gets into power.The writing has an antic energy – a feeling of rushing faster and faster down …
Since the summer, I’ve pretty regularly been watching Joe Scarborough and his crew on Morning Joe on MSNBC. He’s pretty good–a middle-of-the-road, non-doctrinaire conservative–although he does have a tendency to overtalk his guests and especially his co-host, the long-suffering Mika Brzensinski. Joe has been pretty hard to take the last couple of weeks, as though …