Monthly Archives: November 2001

New York parks

Written on November 29, 2001 at 2:30 pm, by

Having to share the Central Park Drive with motor vehicles has led me to think about New Yorkers’ love-hate relationship with cars in Manhattan. On the one hand, we hate […]  More

Marx territory

Written on November 27, 2001 at 2:29 pm, by

The Dow Jones Industrials Average is higher now than it was on September 10. Another sign of a return to the way things were is George W. Bush talking about […]  More

The author, the reader, and the listener

Written on November 27, 2001 at 2:27 pm, by

“Once upon a time there was a person who ended wars forever by murdering 42 Santa Clauses.” That’s the opening line of one of my favorite short stories. It’s called […]  More

After "them" comes us

Written on November 25, 2001 at 2:25 pm, by

I went to my brother’s house in Connecticut today. His 2-1/2-year-old granddaughter was running around minimally clothed. The temperature was in the upper 60s. One of his trees is starting […]  More

Amazing Aviation

Written on November 23, 2001 at 2:24 pm, by

How many Americans woke this morning in a food-, alcohol-, and triptophan-induced stupor, found their furniture abnormally arranged, saw strange substances in their kitchens, and thought there had been another […]  More

Just reward

Written on November 21, 2001 at 2:23 pm, by

In Central Park on Monday, we watched a red-tail hawk eating a pigeon. A crowd gathered, but, knowing we had little interest in eating raw pigeon, the hawk ignored us. […]  More

Mistakes

Written on November 19, 2001 at 2:22 pm, by

I accidentally stuck an extra “firmly” into the end of the last report. It was a mistake. It wasn’t my first, and it’s unlikely to have been my last. I’m […]  More

Fortunately, humor is hard to translate

Written on November 18, 2001 at 2:18 pm, by

Responses to our Thanksgiving Dinner invitation are trickling in. So far, it’s just a large dinner. It’s not yet at the “Yikes!” level. The biggest one we did had 34 […]  More

The formerly hirsute

Written on November 17, 2001 at 2:15 pm, by

Sometimes a picture does seem worth a thousand words. When the Northern Alliance forces headed towards Kabul, the New York Times ran a photo sequence of someone being beaten, stripped, […]  More

Not "until"

Written on November 16, 2001 at 2:14 pm, by

Taliban shmaliban. Many aspects of New York have been influenced by Jewish culture, including such speech patterns as the dismissive repetition of a word with the initial consonant (if any) […]  More

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