Dateline Van Merc Hill: I’m posting from the couch at Emily’s house, sitting with her daughter Maggie, watching the Macy’s Day Parade. Yes, I used the abridged commercial name for the parade. Deal with it. The only part I paid attention to was Hadestown. I pointed out Liam to the girls, there are four of […]
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Charlie Get On the MBTA!
I’m safely ensconced in Van Merc Hill. The trip from the Bronx to Southborough MA took me 8.5 hours door to door. I could have gone to Europe. Emily and I decided that next year we have to find a better way. This was sort of ridiculous. The leg from Boston South Station to Southborough […]
I’m still fighting to get on a proper sleep schedule. I have two cups of coffee in me, so I should have enough focus to write without dozing off zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz That was a joke, but I have dozed off while writing and found pages and pages of single letters repeated from my fingers resting on […]
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Feathers and Banana Nose
I spent much of my therapy session discussing how I am having problems staying awake. I slept till noon this morning. I went to bed at 1 AM. This is becoming a real problem. How did I get by at NERFA? I’ve had two cups of coffee and if I let myself, I could fall […]
I didn’t do anything exciting yesterday, but I thought of things to write about and miracle of miracles I can remember a few of them. Let’s see if they can stick in my head long enough for me to write them down. I did go shopping at Aldi yesterday and while out I did something, […]
It’s tough being a liberal. Our moral center is that everyone has inherent worth, that everyone has the ability to improve, that that there is no us against them, that everyone is part of us. What makes it tough is that we have to argue against the tribalists without becoming tribalists. The temptation is so […]
Last night I went to my first Knick game of the season. The Knicks are not good; the technical term is bad. Going into last night’s game their record was 3-10. They were playing another bad team, the Cleveland Cavaliers who were 4-8. Vegas had the Knicks as 2-point favorites. FiveThirtyEight had the Knicks as […]
Sorry I’m a day late writing about John Platt’s On Your Radar, at least I’m not a dollar short. This comes from not being able to finish the blog on my NERFA discoveries on Tuesday, so I had to write that yesterday. Good thing I didn’t do anything worth writing about yesterday. I never even […]
I’ve been busy on another project. Now let’s see if I have time to write about my NERFA discoveries. The order within tiers is alphabetical I’ll use my usual Tier classification. Tier 1 Les Royal Pickles: As you can pick up from their name, they are French Canadian, and they are loads of fun. Their […]
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So Sumi
Last night was the last of three consecutive evenings hearing live music, the performer was Annie Sumi at River Spirit Music aka Peter and Paula’s house in Hastings. It takes a bus, a walk, a train, and getting picked up in a car, to get there but it’s still a home game. Annie was one […]
Wise Madness 