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During our long drive back from northern Vermont, we chose to ‘shun pike,’ or take the small roads that wind along the rivers, farm fields, and little towns. We stopped at Royalston, where there was a large town square, and a row of little shops and cafes. What a picture […]
Last night we drove up to Barre Vermont for a very special night–it was the 50th anniversary dinner, long planned, of Maurice and Kitty Bigras. I thought I was going to speak, be called upon to read one of my famous speeches…but that moment never came. I wrote some notes, […]
We went to the Advocate’s Preview Massachusetts party, me all dolled up in a tie and Cindy in a very cute black dress. Her hair was curled and I had on a khaki suit I hadn’t worn in years. Remarkably, it fit me well, and the color was right for […]
Telecoms, like AT&T and Verizon, want to create a two-tiered Internet where customers and content providers can be charged for premium content delivery at higher speeds and quality than other content. The harshest critics believe that ability will give ISPs the ability to block, slow, or degrade content unfavorable to […]
Next month a new movie by Bruce Geisler about Michael Metalica premiers. I remember attending a rock concert in 1975 at their Gill commune, at the time I was a student at Northfield Mount Hermon. It was a true commune, at their peak 350 residents called it their home. In […]
When I was young, I was a serious lad. I used walk up to my dad and tell him fun facts. That’s what he used to call them, ‘fun to know and tell,’ we’d say. I just got this month’s Wired. Full of such treats. There is a new Finnish […]
It’s Fox News Channel’s 10th anniversary this October. But the cable network doesn’t want a diamond bauble to commemorate the occasion. It wants cold, hard cash — and plenty of it. Today’s Wall Street Journal had the story. Fox News executives well remember their early days, when the channel got […]
Today’s NY Times included this story about how airlines are figuring out ways to fit more bodies into their planes. “One of the first to use the thinner seats in coach was American Airlines, which refitted its economy-class section seven years ago. “Those seats were indeed thinner than the ones […]
As it happened, the year Frank Deford joined Sports Illustrated was the year it finally became profitable. Sports, too, took off as never before: TV networks began vying for games, the National Football League and National Basketball Association blossomed. “I was suddenly valuable!” Deford says in that booming, gruff voice […]
Oil companies ordered 3 million tons of pipe in 1969. This was before they had even completed the drawings for the Alaska pipeline. The route from Prudhoe Bay at the top of the state, down the entire width of Alaska to the port of Valdez, where the water wasn’t frozen. […]
Jeffrey Tayler wrote a compelling book I am now reading called Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel. I have waited months to read this, I devoured his other book about a trip down the Congo river, and I finally found this at my son’s […]
At a party on Saturday night in Pelham Manor, NY, I met several interesting people. They had gathered to celebrate our friend Tom’s 50th. First was Mark, a 53-year-old Englishman who looked no older than 35, who said he was a retired musician. I later found out that he had […]