Last night Garrison Keillor sang in the rain. In his white shirt and red tie, fifteen minutes before the live Saturday night broadcast of “A Prairie Home Companion” at the Koussevitsky Music Shed in Lenox, he serenaded joyful fans seated on the lawn with a version of the Gene Kelley […]
Andy Rubin had a meeting with Google’s Larry Page that turned out much better than he expected it to. Rubin, the inventor of the Sidekick phone, wanted Page to give his endorsement to his new telephone software called Android. An article by Daniel Roth in this month’s Wired gives the […]
There is a new movie about North Korea that I’m eager to see. Apparently it’s tough to watch, because it is about defectors who have made the crossing over the Tumen River into China in search of food and a better life. Melanie Kirkpatrick wrote about a new film called […]
Today I am more mobile than I’ve been in years. I dragged my old 1997 Avalon to the third mechanic I could find, this one in Amherst, figuring that this was the final straw before I gave it to the American Lung Association. But — I drove away with an […]
Yesterday I left the office early for an important appointment. I had been waiting months for this day, and at 3 pm, I was seated in a dark office popping two Valium with Cindy by my side. It was time to slice open my eyes with a laser and shave […]
I read an angry diatribe in the Boston Globe a few months back about the tyranny of forcing consumers to switch to compact flourescent lights. The story railed about how unfair it was to make Americans use more efficient lightbulbs that burn a fraction of the energy. How it was […]
Last night’s movie called “The Beach” made me dream about writing blogs. Leonardo DiCaprio is Richard, a hard-partying traveler who meets a crazy Scot named Daffy in a Bangkok fleabag motel, and then finds him dead after he’s killed himself. But before he dies, he gives Richard a map to […]
It was mighty encouraging to read that opponents of Cape Wind, who have thrown up all manner of legal obstacles to building offshore wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, have been pushed aside. We have to begin building our green infrastructure and wind, solar and even nuclear power have to be […]
Thomas Friedman once again calls it right…in a blistering column today he points at President Bush and scolds him for not being any sort of leader on energy. Great stuff, I just wish Bush and the Repblicans would read it. “The Senate Republicans — sorry to say, with the help […]
We have been enjoying our Cape Cod vacation and last night met a wonderful young couple who sat with us at the wedding reception. Bride and Groom Jackie and Mark included many personal touches that made the wedding more fun. At the table, the placecards were all little snippets of […]
Even with the Pittsburgh skyline and the fascinating company aboard the Gateway Clipper, the lure of the Blackberry is a tempation that’s hard to put down. Here uber traveler Johnny Jet checks email while we cruised the Allegheny river on Thursday night. We caught up with many interesting writers and […]
It’s been a long time coming, we’re finally on our long-awaited Cape Cod mini-vacation to attend the wedding of Jackie Stevenson and Mark Archer. This young couple invited us way, way back when the snow was on the ground and the day has finally come for our two-night stay at […]