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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

I got shoes. You got shoes. All Trump’s children got shoes.

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It may be the Ivanka Trump, daughter of The Donald and his gloriously flamboyant ex Ivana, is every bit as self-promoting, self-absorbed, an...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Daniel A. Deadbeat

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Like every other red-blooded American, I like to see films that are filmed in my state. And I’m one of those whose motto is “accept no subst...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

Resolute. This time I mean it.

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I never actually make New Year’s Resolutions. Or, rather, I never actually keep New Year’s Resolutions. So I’m sure as hell not going b...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas 2011

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And so this is is Christmas. (Or close enough, at any rate.) And so this was going to be a picture of my Christmas tree. But the tree do...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Feliz Navidad from the Mayor of San Juan

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After my mother died, we went through her cartons of pictures and tossed out a) pictures in which we couldn’t identify anyone; b) those in w...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Santa Claus ain’t comin’ to this town. (Santa Land has closed.)

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As a baby boomer, I grew up in the Golden Age of kiddie attractions. In addition to all the hold-over amusement parks from the pre-war era, ...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Robo Restaurants? Wasabi with that?

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I’m not opposed to an occasional gulp-and-go fast food spree. In fact, when I get finished with this post, I’m heading across the street to ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

It’s all in the context

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Oh, I admit it. If I had the money, I’d be out there buying Cole-Haan boots rather than stalking Zappo’s trying to find a replacement for ...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Condo mondo.

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We live in a small, quasi-self-managed condo building. About a year ago, I wrote about the joys of living in a small, quasi-self-managed con...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Ah, to be young and in Paris

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Even at my advanced age, I continue to look for ways in which I can live my life better.  Unfortunately, the operative word her is “look”, a...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

You will know them by the catalogs they keep

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Whatever else ‘tis the season for, it sure is the season for catalogs. I live in a six-unit condo building, and every year the combined un...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Fatwa on e-mail? Not so quick!

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I once worked with a very wise man who had this to say about e-mail: People are always coming up to me in the halls and asking whether ...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

$800K from the Saugus Library? It’ll be hard to make that up from overdue book fines.

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I have to say that the one crime that never ceases to amaze me is embezzlement. Truly, you’re more apt to be hired somewhere if you murder...
Friday, December 09, 2011

By the seastead, by the seastead, by the beautiful seastead

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That Peter Thiel! Every time I pick up a mag, there he – cofounder of PayPal, co-funder of Facebook - be. First, it was The New Yorker ...
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Thursday, December 08, 2011

We’ll remember Pearl Harbor

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Yes, I know: the 70th anniversary of “a day that will live in infamy” was yesterday, not today. But 70 years ago today, Franklin Roosevelt...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Comment moderator. (Now here’s something I could do.)

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Since I so don’t want to go back to waitressing, I sometimes think about what I might do next. If, at my advanced age, there is in fact a n...
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