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Friday, July
09, 2004 at 00:26:23 (EDT) |
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Climb ev'ry mountain
Just because it's been hot lately, I hope the cats aren't
expecting us to fall for their theatrics.
Like the mighty summit of Mount Kilimanjaro
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Thursday,
July 08, 2004 at 13:49:09 (EDT) |
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So polished from your hair down to
your toes
Trying to blend in with the stockbrokersI went down to Stone Street yesterday to check out the investment-banker
bar
scene. At some point in the past, this really old street was
completely closed to motor vehicle traffic so now it's full
of tables so dense it is very difficult to determine to which
establishment a given table belongs. You take your chances
and sit down and a waiter appears from somewhere. I'd like
to don a waist-apron and carry a notepad and do some guerilla
waitering down there some day. I'd swoop in and take orders
and insist on cash up front. Or maybe I'd just take the order
and leave, so when the real waiter shows up, people are already
pissed off. Considering the languid pace of the service last
night, I bet I could get away with this for quite a while.
 What
is it with young Wall Street types who wear those cornflower
blue dress shirts? I know, every man probably owns at least
one, but these guys must have closets full of them. Fully
half of the after-work crowd was wearing them as they stood
outside Ulysses
drinking Bud Light. I guess the thinking is that the blue
shirt is somehow more offbeat than the basic black and white
outfit. But when everybody wears it at the same time, it doesn't
work. I understand that more formal dress usually means less
room for creativity, but there's got to be something we can
do about this. Unfortunately, men looking to liven up their
business attire usually have but one outlet: the necktie.
This doesn't help. Loud 'power' ties and 'humorous' pattern
ties with golf clubs or Bugs Bunny do not a statement make.
I think people need to stick with solid colors for ties, and
shirts should range more. Also I'd like to see more suits
with some kind of pattern on them! Why doesn't anybody ever
do that?
That reminds me of an old Woody Allen joke, when discussing
getting dressed for a date: "You don't wear argyle with
dark blue. I had on dark blue socks and an argyle suit."
The very stuff of comedy in the late 60's but I think the
time is finally right for the Argyle Suit. Somebody get on
this. Oh, also somebody needs to design table legs that automatically
keep the table top level while on an uneven brick street in
lower Manhattan. Million dollar idea!
Tim's shirt is one of those iridescent
things so he gets a fashion Pass.
And of course, my look is impeccable.
And yes, I know that as a guy who never ever wears a suit
I probably shouldn't make snap judgments about how businessmen
dress.
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Wednesday,
July 07, 2004 at 00:06:10 (EDT) |
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We said we'd all go down together
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Ah, sweet confluence! Josh
B's latest article
not only discusses one of my favorite bars
in the hood, but also deals directly with Josh
R's aborted Spelling
Bee, and mentions my ex-girlfriend! All in the same article!
UPDATE: Kathy's
also in there, although she denies the claim that she was wearing
flood pants (artisitc license perhaps?) My only regret is that
I was at band practice when most of this was going on. I didn't
get there until spelling anticipation had been almost completely
replaced with beer. Let's hope that any articles about Freddy's
helps fight the stupid Arena
thing they want to build on its lot and a lot of other unnecessary
locations nearby. Corie
makes us aware of a NYT
article about the spot as well.
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Ah, I remember when I didn't even know Freddy's existed.
I lived a scant few blocks away at the time, yet had no idea
there was a fine dive bar/live music venue within a stone's
throw of my blue-paint-covered hovel. Anyway, the whole arena
deal stinks. Sports suck.
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Speaking of Brooklyn development, have you guys been by the
new mall thing they dropped in front of the Williamsburgh
Bank Building? I admit, I've been looking forward to it. See,
unlike the stupid evil area thing, this mall was built on
top of an empty rail yard lot. And only the lot.
Ratner was to use the Atlantic Avenue rail yards and all the
real estate that surrounds it as well. "That
wasn't part of the deal! That wasn't part!"
Anyhow, my main interest in the new mall (besides its aforementioned
integrity) was because it houses a Target
store. It's a little lame, but it'll be nice to have an all-in-one
department store in the neighborhood. Who knows, maybe I'll
start buying all my clothes there instead of Century
21. Ha, fat chance, although the mall will also have a
Daffy's.
But what I hadn't counted on is the other stores. Yes, I'm
afraid Downtown Brooklyn will now have a Starbucks, but that
isn't the worst news. There's gonna be a Chuck
E. Cheese too. What else, besides perhaps Denny's, smacks
so much of the suburbs I've spent the last 13 years of my
life trying to evade more than this emporium of sub-par pizza
and spooky singing mice? Well, I guess I didn't really have
that exact image on my mind when I left Mentor,
Ohio, but now that I'm faced with again, the horror is
all coming back.
That said, a friend of mine said we should totally have somebody's
birthday there. Man, Generation X never tires of the irony
thing, does it? What the hell, I'm game. I'm terrible at video
games, but Skee-Ball
has always held a vaguely Freudian attraction for me.
I think I still have some tokens somewhere.
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Tuesday, July
06, 2004 at 13:07:26 (EDT) |
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You better watch what you say
Hey, look at this email I just received to my work account:
A communication sent from your e-mail account
was intercepted and quarantined because it contained language
deemed inappropriate for business communications. If you
feel your message was quarantined in error, please contact
email-quarantine@[mycompany].com
Now, first of all, I haven't sent an email out since last
Friday, so my first thought was that this part of some elaborate
virus/worm thing. But the message had no dubious attachments
or anything. But second of all, what the fuck? "Language
deemed inappropriate for business communication"? what
words do you suppose set that off? I assume it's terms like
"logic," "efficiency" and "big fat
raise for the web guy." At any rate, I am thinking of
lots of other inappropriate language right now.
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Monday, July
05, 2004 at 21:22:07 (EDT) |
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Good morning Mister Zip-Zip-Zip
Buzz McKinnon is a take-charge kind
of guy
 Let's
see, what was this weekend's most important lesson? Perhaps
it's that when I have a barbecue, I should request that guests
bring only beer and not more food, as we have tons of stuff
left over. Or perhaps I should request that guests bring all
the food and beer, and we just provide the grill and the yard.
I dunno. Actually, the real Lesson of the Weekend is probably
"Don't see Fahrenheit
9/11 on a hangover." I didn't think I even had
a hangover but Buzz and I saw the film on Saturday, and it
left me feeling queasy and helpless for the rest of the day.
Did non-hunogver viewers feel the same way? Still, it's obviously
a landmark film that everyone should see. Certainly its best
aspect is the fact that it is spurring conversations among
pretty much everybody I encounter. We can't have too much
conversation about what's been happening here (and there)
for the past few years. Also, I haven't seen it yet, but from
Abby's
explanation of it, I think Control
Room sounds like it makes a good companion piece
to Michael Moore's movie. More
babbling about my weekend.
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