Achtung baby! As a great man once said, “I . . . am . . . still . . . aliiiiiiiive.” So, nice calm cool collected 15 hour day yesterday complete with a two way trip to NYC although I never crossed the river out of New Jersey. Close enough for government work anyway. I hadn’t realized, not having gone north in daylight since Sept 11, how screwed up the Mahattan skyline looks without the WTC. Instead of the old gentle curve upwards from the north end of the island to the south culminating in the twin towers there are just these two middling sized islands on the island…bad metaphor. Very odd and discomfiting. Any chance we can build two big towers out of the bodies of Muslim dead? You can use their pull-starts to tie them together.
Damn, I totally forgot about Canada being on fire over the weekend. And me without a topical quote. I leave it to my good friend to make up for my omission:
“. . . the smoky haze of burning Canadians. Pretty bizarre. You could smell the roasted healthcare socialist, wannabe Frenchie, hockey lovin freaks! Don t see (or smell) that everyday, huh?”
Cool. Off to see Harvey tonight without Jimmy Stewart. There’s nothing like a good play about a six foot tall imaginary rabbit to put a nice capstone on a busy week. Thank God for Friday and a wedding with (hopefully) free booze on the weekend. Hurrah!