There are police barricades everywhere along Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue in Chelsea. Those were the only avenues I saw tonight. I don’t know if they’re on Seventh too.
The waiter at dinner — a new idiosyncratic Italian place called Morelli’s at 21st Street and Ninth Avenue — said it was because of a firemen’s march.
What, are they planning a riot in my neighborhood tomorrow?
They won because they’re the best technology, right?
Microsoft discloses security flaw
Microsoft Corp. disclosed a security flaw Thursday of “critical” severity in its Outlook Express e-mail programs.
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The security bulletin is the company’s 58th this year.
This one’s for Glenn: an exhibit of amateur paintings of clowns from the collection of Robert Berman and Diane Keaton.
Speaking of Ms. Keaton, I recently watched Manhattan for the first time since I moved to NYC in 1989. It’s such a wonderful appreciation of New York. Now that I’ve lived here for years, I recognize so much, and I know where they are when they’re in that gallery building on West Broadway where Castelli, Sonnabend, etc. were located. I would not have laughed as much at the “oh, you liked that?” conversation when Diane Keaton first appears. I don’t think I knew who Diane Arbus even was when I first saw it. I still remember laughing at the angst over pronouncing “Van Gogh” when I first saw it in college.
Let’s talk about art for a bit, rather than politics. The Guardian has an amusing Web Guide to Tracey Emin, a/k/a ‘Mad Tracey from Margate’.
Wow! Salon has the text of the speech he gave on the floor of the House yesterday opposing the Iraq war resolution.
“Let us not forget that our president — our commander in chief — has no experience with, or knowledge of, war. In fact, he admits that he was at best ambivalent about the Vietnam War. He skirted his own military service and then failed to serve out his time in the National Guard. And, he reported years later that at the height of that conflict in 1968 he didn’t notice ‘any heavy stuff going on.’”
“So we have a president who thinks foreign territory is the opponent’s dugout and Kashmir is a sweater.
I’ve resisted the temptation to quote more, so go on over there and read it!
I worked on one of his campaigns when I lived in Texas.
Having relinquished the power to decide war and peace, the House moves on. They have passed a resolution saying the President can decide when, or if, to attack another country. I consider this abandonment of Congress’s right to declare war illegal. Every person voting yes should be impeached.
As the Senate prepares to do the same, we have this ridiculous statement from Daschle:
Across the Capitol, where the Senate was moving toward passage of the same resolution, Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) said Americans will return attention to the economy “once we get this question of Iraq behind us.”
How is going to war putting it “behind us”?
I was waiting for the subway at 23rd/7th tonight, when the resident entertainer, a blind singer named Bobby Blow, started talking about how “all singers have big mouths”. I learned a new fact from Mr. Blow. “”http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_717.htm">Satchmo</a>" is short for “Satchellmouth”.
I think I’m done (or mostly done) with my trip photos. It’s pretty impressionistic. You’re as likely to see pictures of pretty people as famous tourist sites. I figure you can see those, with much better photographs, online or in books. For Vienna especially, everywhere you turn is worthy of a photograph.
Having endured Krispy Kreme, Boston Market, and Trailer Park, finally something interesting has opened. We have a new Ricky’s.