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Draw the shades, turn on the A/C, open a book and pretend it’s winter!

Coney Island – who needs it? I just don’t get it. Going to the beach in the summertime. Enormous crowds. Coating your body in greasy sunblock, which attracts layers of sand and gnats like flypaper. And...

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Four Degrees of Separation

The Birds…Alfred Hitchcock…Psycho…Crazy Commuters This morning I caught the Q49 bus, deliberately running late. A new employee I.D. swipe-in system has been instituted at my job, and management now...

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The Past is Dead…Long Live the Past

On a leisurely walk down 59th St. this morning, I was shocked to learn the Oak Bar in the Plaza Hotel has closed. Little by little, old New York seems to be disappearing before our eyes. Not that I was...

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The Ninth House Blog: Then and Now

This afternoon, I revisited my very first post on this blog, published on April 23, 2009 at 1:57 P.M., and erected its astrological chart. I’m somewhat chagrined, given how wrapped up I am in...

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Koans for Contemplation at the End of September

Photo: by J.C. Cause for contemplation in the coming week: 1) Should a person spend 8 hours a day in a workplace she has come to loathe? 2) Must this person endure the interminable ranting* of a desk...

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We will miss you, Steve Jobs

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your...

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Verklempt

Lately I’ve been as verklempt as this Bergdorf mannequin; minus the glamour. Enervated at work, fed up, really (if you happen to work in an office populated by gossips and hypochondriacal, litigious...

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Things are looking up!

At Lety’s, a favorite local bakery here in Jackson Heights, I overheard a coffee klatch conversation today among several (I’m guessing) 70-to-80-somethings. One of the guys was trying to encourage a...

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Something to Smile About

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A Walk in the Park

Thursday was my favorite kind of autumn day. Chilly, overcast, not windy, on the brink of rain but holding fast. A perfect lunch hour for a Woody Allen movie moment — remember that scene from Hannah...

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How To Be An Artist

I’ve just finished writer David Rakoff’s remarkably witty, insightful, poignant, snarky but never mean collection of essays, Half Empty. What a joy to read. From a piece he calls, Isn’t It Romantic —...

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May Your Weekend Seem Like A Week Long

 If your Friday was anything like mine…I’m sure you need a timeout. From my arsenal of inspiring quotes, I offer the following to help diffuse the residual effects of workplace insanity: - “If I keep...

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All I Want for Christmas is No More War

Will we ever get over the absence of the World Trade Center towers in the downtown skyline? No, never. But because I’m a fan of TV shows and films from the grittier 1970s, lately I’ve been watching...

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It’s 2012: Let’s Get Together and Feel Alright

I’m reading a collection of essays about pop culture titled Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Although I haven’t finished reading the essays, so far, my favorite piece is the fascinating and...

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Playlist for 2012 for Playtime at Home

Thinking Outside the Box OMG, what an annoying day at work. Talk about High School Confidential  - a cabal of office workers GOSSIPING as if their life depended on it. Well…I came home and decided to...

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R U Blocked?

(courtesy of The New Yorker ) Wouldn’t it be convenient if a prerecorded message were made available to artists, something to guide them through the creation of a work of art, just as the viewer above...

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Mayor Bloomberg is Such a Dweeb

I just watched this video at queenscrap.blogspot.com. It’s called: “Get Ready for Some Bad Acting.” I don’t know which is funnier (as in dumb, stupid, bad funny), the video or the comments… Who knew...

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Synchronicities

“How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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Grins and Grimaces

“How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” The inimitable Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five I just finished reading a great biography of Vonnegut (check out my Book Reviews...

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Grins :) and Grimaces :(

“How nice–to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” The inimitable Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five First, let me apologize to all who subscribe to my blog — twice today, I hit the...

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