On Piling on the Hate for LaGuardia
The worst airport I've ever encoutered is Chicago Midway and this includes flying around Eastern Europe in the early 90's and Mexico.
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On Celebrate Leap Day With Kevin Kline's Magnificent Chest Hair
What about The Pirate Movie?!?
Seriously though, if you're in or around NYC and you've never been to the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players productions you're missing out.
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On 10 Things I Believed When I Was A Little Kid In Order Of How Embarrassing They Still Are When I Remember Them Today
I used to think that islands floated on the water and that you could swim beneath them, which was how plumbers fixed pipes. They were held in place by giant chain anchors, like the chains that held the Kraken door closed in Clash of the Titans.
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On The Banks and New York City and the Media
@BadUncle Deutsche Bank is there as well, but yeah Wall Street is more of a virtual thing these days.
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On Some Recent Defining Presidential Campaign Moments, In Order
Is it sad that I remember the SNL take on all these moments more clearly than the actual moments?
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On Why the Tea Party Hates Occupy Wall Street
@LondonLee I agree with you. I despise the fact that the boomers continued to peddle this hippie image of peace, love, and change when they are the same people who created the current culture of corporate greed and excess. I've always read Thompson as calling them on their bullshit. Whatever that (imagined?)feeling of the 60's was it was dead and gone by the early 70's only to be rekindled as nostalgia in the 80's.
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On Why the Tea Party Hates Occupy Wall Street
@deepomega For me, Hunter Thompson sums up the 60's best: "The kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something, maybe not, in the long run. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
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On The New Almodóvar Is Almost Upon Us!
@SarahHeartburn Doesn't every character suffer in an Almodovar film?
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
No Facebook. I am waiting for one of the current Facebook commenters to post that same thought.
I'd also be sad to see the numbers go. I'm not terribly clever. It's all I have.