Archive for January, 2014

Cancellation Alert!!!

Who can BLOG in weather like this?  I was slip-sliding up the walkway last night, doing that hunch-shouldered shivering thing, the tips of my ears burning, my nose dripping across my lips and freezing on my chin and, of course, really, really having to pee.  Later, when my bladder was…

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Audition

If you’re being audited, is that an audition?  And, if so, what exactly are you trying out for?  Managra Music, Inc. is being audited.  Some weasel from the IRS spent a day pouring over three years of my financial history, (at my expense, both for my accountant’s time and his…

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Playing Bridge

It’s hard to keep up with scandalous behavior these days.  I’m still reeling from that whole Anthony Weiner thing, (the actual ‘thing’, not all the hoo-ha that surrounded it); I can’t get a handle on what’s what with ObamaCare; I don’t know if I’m alarmed that Bob Gates’ memoire unmasks…

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Two Americas

There’s been a bit more talk about the notion of the two, very separate Americas as a result of the numerous, relentlessly replayed clips of Bill de Blasio’s swearing in as mayor of NYC.  It didn’t gain much traction as an issue in the last presidential campaign and as a…

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