Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


53rd & 6th Halal Cart

We were in New York for Daniel Glass’s daughter’s wedding. Say that three times fast… Anyway, it was hot as hell. And the A/C in Felice’s mother’s apartment was on the fritz. But after a scorched night we hit the pavement that inspired "Summer In The City" and walked over to the Eugene O’Neill Theater […]

The Age Of Miracles

I could not put this book down. Do you know this album by Supertramp, "Crime Of The Century"? This was long before they had their hits, before they started singing about having kippers for breakfast. As a matter of fact, this was only their second record, and the first was not really the same band, […]

The Newsroom

Speaking truth to stupid. I never watched "West Wing". I did religiously view "Sports Night", but it was never as good as the critics claimed. But then I went to see "Social Network" and I became an Aaron Sorkin fan. In a dumbed-down world where I have to spell out everything I say I could […]

The Senate Judiciary Hearing

Be afraid, be very afraid. Especially when Lucian Grainge makes Edgar Bronfman, Jr. look like a paragon of openness and reasonableness. If you were watching this hearing, and you knew nothing about the law, were just deciding whether the Universal/EMI merger should go through on fairness, you’d say NO WAY! Lucian Grainge was so evasive […]