The public schools are the worst thing about New York. Paying for my son's tuition for grades one through eight was a great strain. Fortunately he passed the...
Dancing was part of my 6th grade physical ed class. We did a lot of square dancing. Do people go to dances? I think we should all start dancing more, and...
Very good! Note lengthy article on Ashbery in recent New Yorker. Michael Andre once pointed out the building where Ashbery's apt was on 9th Ave, around the...
I cannot for the life of me understand how on earth you could link Bush to Hitler so frequently. It is rather silly. Hitler shit on his wifes face. Bush...
I believe the invasion of Iraq was a grave mistake. From Hitler's point of view, invading Russia turned out to be an error. I also believe Bush is a evil fool....
What held the NY School together was hatred for their mothers. O'Hara was livid whenever he spoke with his mother. There's an amazing passage on this in Joe...
Also, interestingly, our modern notion of hospitality derives in some part from the ancient Greek notion of "xenia" -- which was applied to strangers. ...
... Here's another: parents who waste other parents' children on vague abstractions: e.g., democracy, freedom, staying the course. Hal "Those who cast...
This is a persistent rumor about Hitler. I have never tracked it down to a reliable source. I really don't think Bush is a liar. I think he's overly...
Malachi, It was a strong statement. I don't know if it's true or not, and I too wondered about abused people. Somehow, weirdly, I think that an abused person...
Hal, it's hard for me to even imagine this one. Is it possible? Come to think of it that Susan Smith who drowned her children would of course fit. It's truly...
I'd like to do more dancing. I have three small kids and we dance to an Australian pop group called the Wiggles. It's about the best thing about being a dad,...
I think Jerome Rothenberg "discovered" Rose Drachler. Little magazines like Unmuzzled OX and Warren Woessner's Abraxas published her. But it was John Ashbery's...
The tabloid the Globe has on its cover that George W. has gotten drunk and is now receiving therapy at the demand of his wife. ... I've ... nonetheless ... the...
Hatred can be a really stupid and counter-productive excursion, but some people, even parents, have engaged in behavior that has destructive effects, and may...
I don't know that Susan Smith "hated" her children . . . they were merely in the way of what she saw as her greater happiness. I don't know that cannibals...
... Good example. Probably not. But could he have still loved his dad. I think he probably did. I think Medea's children probably still loved her, too. ...
Maybe you could write a novel about him staying with his dad, missing out on the raft and Jim, missing out on dressing up as a girl, missing out on watching...
It's amazing our difference in political perception. Everybody lies. When someone says he never lies, that's a sure "tell" you're talking to a con man. Are you...
To put the word "deliberately" before the word "killed" would put your question into a more honest framework, Michael. I don't think Bush has ever deliberately...
Aren't you supposed to state the number of American soldiers killed, and the financial expense, and then the number of American civilians killed, and the...
Souvien is right that a better cost-benefit analysis could be done in regard to the war than simply to say that freedom is priceless. Of course it's pricey. ...
... Last I saw, that number was about 2,800, including those on the planes hitting the WTC. Hal "There are then quite a number of things one does or...
Well, I am not quite sure where you have been, perhaps you have not seen the Microsoft Light of Day. It has now gone beyond the corporations merely attaching...
