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We drove miles and miles over the New York Thruway. The unending fields and rows of corn were interspersed with golf courses, glimpes of deer in fields, and peeks into broken down upstate towns. When we finally exited the Thruway, after 270 miles, we drove toward Niagara Falls. The sides […]

Up really early today, thinking about where I need to go. Can you believe I am going to drive to Albany this morning then continue on all the way past BUFFALO? I am just back from my trip to Italy Sunday, but obligations call me to Niagara Falls. It is […]

Terry Gross interviewed Sonny Rollins on her radio show Fresh Air. Rollins talked with his somber hoarse voice about lving in Tribeca and having to move out of his apartment after 9/11. “I left my piano there, ” he said, “Monk played that and Dizzy and many others.” Rollins explained […]

In Deauville, a town hard by the Northern coast of France, they honor film and writers with a festival of cinema. One of the honorees was 90-something “ex Hollywood Prince” Bud Schulberg. He hung out with Castro in the early days, joining him for a tall vodka with Erroll Flynn […]

Found this on little Green Footballs this morning, from the Washington Post.“[New Orleans Mayor] Nagin did not tell everyone to leave immediately, because the regional plan called for the suburbs to empty out first, but he did urge residents in particularly low-lying areas to “start moving — right now, as […]

We picked up the Wall Street Journal Europe on the plane and read this report about the lessons learned by the Dutch after the devastation in New Orleans. Molly Moore wrote about the terrible flood in 1953 that killed 1900 people in the Netherlands. “New Orleans is a good lesson […]

Back in the U.S. after a relaxing and fun vacation in the Le Marche region in Eastern Italy, I am trying to do that catching up that is needed to wire me back in. So nice to read my friend Kent’s blog, love hearing about his sailing adventures and the […]

In September’s Wired came a long story titled ‘Reinventing Television.” He contrasts Yahoo’s sophisticated approach to integrating the website with television through video search and their own web tv programming to Google’s stumbling, not yet ready for primetime approach. It might be because Yahoo’s chairman Terry Semel spent 24 years […]

I took a book called “Wild Stories” with me on our trip to Italy, and read this passage called “Creatures of the Dictator,” by Rick Bass. “The reason there are now so many grizzlies in Romania—back in the 1940s, for example, there were only about nine hundred—is that Ceausescu liked […]

Waiting and waiting here in this computer shop in Passo Sant’Angelo, Italy, for our emails to come up. Is this what is used to be like back in the dial-up era? We can’t believe how annoying this is…wow. When I think that most of the world’s internet is this slow, […]

Las Vegas’ tourism commission is fighting to keep its slogan from being hijacked. But with licensing rights worth potentially millions of dollars on the line, the clothing company is fighting back in court, arguing that Las Vegas is hardly the first place in the world where people have promised to […]