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Eighteen Wheels Burning- Live at The Delancey, Sat., Aug. 30th

Eighteen Wheels Burning will be playing at The Delancey this Saturday night, August 30th at 9pm. They just signed with a record label, so you’ll want to see them before they start playing the really big venues. Check out their MySpace page. You can also pick up their CDs on CD Baby. And, there’s smashing [...]

The Economy: Not Dead Yet!- by Greg Strid

The economy is not dead yet! The Commerce Department
reported that the U.S. glowed under the warm light created
by 3.3 percent real economic growth in the second quarter.
This new reading almost doubles the original tally of 1.9
percent- which provided barely enough wattage to read
the fine print on mortgage, credit card and auto loan
statements.
According to Marketwatch.com, the [...]

Blue Market Monday

The market giveth on Friday and taketh away on Monday.
It seems that panic was in vogue today as more bad news
surfaced concerning the lousy state of the nation’s financial
institutions.
The Dow Jones forfeited just over 240 points, and the
broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index sank a hair more than
25 points. The Nasdaq felt the pain as [...]

A comment on Bloomberg’s Wind Power Plan

According to a recent article in the New York Times, Mayor
Bloomberg announced a bold plan that would seek to
harness the wind power that races through New York City’s
canyons of skyscrapers and over its many bridges and miles
of open water.
His goal, mentioned in the article, is to reduce the city’s
dependence on country’s rickety power grid. The [...]

My Birthday Extravaganza-photos by Greg Strid

I celebrated my birthday on Wednesday with style. Tiby arranged for an action-packed day that began with a shopping trip to Reminiscence (I felt the need for a new coat to ring in the fall season), continued with a powerful day at Chelsea Piers and ended with an evening sail in New York Harbor aboard [...]

Oh Vladimir!- Article recommendation by Greg Strid

Oh Vladimir, why are you causing such confusion and
panic in the halls of western capitals- especially
Washington D.C.? His show of force against the tiny
nation of Georgia is ruining the vacations of many
presidents and prime ministers. “How rude of him,
what a nasty former spy he is!”, they are saying from
the South of France to the brush [...]

New kid in the house. (New uncle on the block.)- photo by uncle.

On Tuesday afternoon, August 19th, the world was blessed with the arrival of Anna Rose. She weighed in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces. I would like to thank and congratulate my brother Dennis and sister-in-law Noelle. Anna is quite the stunning specimen. Many newborns appear to have just stepped off the mother ship-prematurely. Anna, however, [...]

Puerto Rican Day Parade with Scary Corrections Vehicle Fleet

It was a smashing day for a parade. The sun was shining, but it was not too hot or humid. Tiby and I parked ourselves in camping chairs on Montgomery Street to take in Jersey City’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
The photos posted below are from my little camera, and the tart comments that accompany each [...]

Shopping at Home Depot is so demoralizing

Let me start by saying: “Giant stores suck!” and giant hardware stores suck the most.
Recently, I was in the cavernous Home Depot on 23rd Street to buy some clay pots for some of my houseplants, (The little Ace Hardware store on 14th sold out of the size pots I wanted, so I had no choice [...]