On Sunday I saw Donovan at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill. Or, if I was nasty, I’d say I saw a 70 year old Donovan impersonator. The veteran trouper did his best to put on a good show, singing all of his sweet, romantic songs, as well as his outstanding and outstandingly odd compositions, like …
Went to the Midnight Ramble with Dave Jensen on September 9th. The band was excellent–they really cooked.
9.13 Household incomes rose strongly in 2015, breaking a yearslong pattern of income stagnation. The median household’s income in 2015 was $56,500, an increase of 5.2 percent over the previous year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. . . .The median household income is still 1.6 percent lower than in 2007, before the recession. It also …
From Atlas Obscura, the Ian Fleming Literary Map, an essential guide to the locations of every assignation and allegation, as well as other information, from Fleming’s fourteen James Bond novels.
8.31 Visited Rose in Maryland 8.30 New York Post: “A team of scientists that investigated extraterrestrial signals from deep space may have found signs of an advanced civilization in the solar system of a sun-sized star 95 light-years away. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researchers believe that a strong signal detected from a 6.3-billion-year-old …
I am honored to join you at this extraordinary time. Some elections are about candidates. Some are about issues. Some, like 1984, when my father delivered his powerful keynote speech, are more profound This election is not just a question of which candidate we want, who we want to be. At stake is much more …
7.28 Hillary Clinton: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” 7.28 Donald Trump: ““I was going to hit one guy, in particular a very little guy. I was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin. He wouldn’t know what the …
The National Desk of The New York Times, Monday, July 25, 2016. Photo courtesy of editor Mary Anne Giordano, who appears sixth from left (and right)
7.21 Donald Trump, in his acceptance speech at the RNC: ““I alone can fix it.” 7.21 Billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel won loud applause at the GOP convention: “Every American has a unique identity, I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But, most of all, I am proud to …