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If you look at the last thing you accomplished and it doesn’t fill you with pride and you look at the thing you accomplished before that and it doesn’t fill you with pride and you look at the thing before … Continue reading →

They don’t make ’em like they used to probably because then they weren’t the same people who make ’em now. Back a few years ago here in the City before Mexican was made by Mexicans I went to these hole-in-the-wall … Continue reading →

Using hindsight I would say kidnapping the boy to win the lady’s favor was not my wisest move. I simply thought that brainwashing the kid would give me better opportunities with the mother – which is good in theory, but … Continue reading →

Whatever it could have been whatever it should have been it finally proved to be a good day. Potential realized this time.

My mother explains the final days of the big blue blanket I always carried in the glory days of my very youngest youth. “It started as a fluffy bouncy blue blanket,” she says, “And then became a ratty blue tattered … Continue reading →

As the Season progresses to its natural endgame and you check my letter for its necessary requests, please be aware that I require very little of you this year, kind sir and generous giver to an inestimable number of undeserving … Continue reading →

If I have one regret today it’s not hoarding more of the generic gifts I got for other people for myself at the end of the day. It was really poor planning. If I have two regrets today it’s not … Continue reading →

It is momentous, in its small way, as we lose Sunday service at the New York City libraries due to budget cuts. This is not just in the New York City libraries that are part of the New York City … Continue reading →

There is a big rock. If you look ahead you can see it. If you walk forward into the distance long enough you will get to it. It will take a while, surely and you will expend a great deal … Continue reading →

The pizza place on the corner has recently notified me that they will provide me an especially free slice of Sicilian pizza for my birthday if I have a pizza party at their place this year. Their place, I should … Continue reading →