BROADWAY & 13th STREET, JULY 6, 2011, 12:15 PM
Girls with coconuts on a 90 degree day.
LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD
Yes, that’s me in The Daily Briarcliff today, shown standing in Law Park, talking about And the War Came. Thanks to Tien-Shun Lee for a terrific article. To see it in its entirity, click here.
MICHELE BACHMANN’S WHITE-WASHED AMERICA
In my freshman year of college my friend Bob Crumlish and I were sitting in the college cafeteria doing what 18 year olds were doing in cafeterias the length and breadth of America, namely, screwing around. In our case, we were using teaspoons to catapult elements of a fruit cocktail through the air and onto …
ARE REPUBLICANS THE NEW SECESSIONISTS?
Brinksmanship is a pretty effective tactic; the disciplined refusal to compromise until the very last minute often panics a less steadfast opponent into making desperate concessions. Currently Congressional Republicans are engaging in brinksmanship with the debt ceiling, refusing to approve raising the ceiling by the deadline of August 2nd unless there is an effective budget …
CELEBRATING CARA AND JAY
The happy parents of Cara Malanowski and Jay Jensen brought their families and friends to dinner at Orofino’s on Friday. Congratulations Cara and Jay! Well done! Now on to Kentucky and Rensselaer. (That’s a photo of Cara and Jay as babies on the cake.)
SHOCK AND GALL: WHY TRUMP, PALIN, GINGRICH AND BACHMANN ARE THE SAME AS JAYNE MANSFIELD AND MADONNA
Jayne Mansfield knew it. Whenever the blonde, buxom, modestly-talented starlet threatened to become lost amid the endless parade of up-and-coming bombshells Hollywood produced, Jayne found a way to display her breasts in view of a host of compliant paparazzi. Because Jayne knew the secret of success, she managed to support herself and her girls for …
NAIVE DAVID BROOKS GETS SLAPPED AWAKE
David Brooks has been a great columnist for The New York Times because he has always conducted himself like a decent guy. Intelligent, prudent, even-handed, he spends a lot of time giving the other fellow his due, in the obvious belief that he ought to behav in an earnest, high-minded, intelligent way because that is …
FUCK IT–LET’S DO THE RIGHT THING!
Explaining his intention to support the gay marriage bill now before the legislature, New York State Senator Roy McDonald said “You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. You might not like that. You might …
TECHNO-TAINER!
And the War Came received an excellent write-up in Michael Humphrey‘s blog Techno-Tainers on Forbes.com: “Byliner’s third Original, “And the War Came,” marches readers chronologically from just before Abraham’s Lincoln’s election to the doorstep of war. We arrive byway of every imaginable thought direction – the passionate abolitionist and adamant slavery defender, the brave-savvy leader …
MADISON SQUARE PARK, JUNE 9, 2011, 5:15 PM
I had the great good fortune to be visiting the office of my accountant near Madison Square yesterday, which gave me the opportunity to see this wondrous sculpture sitting in the middle of the lawn. It is called Echo, and it is by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Forty feet tall, and sprinkled in marble …