Month: October 2015

The Lonely Death of George Bell, by N. R. Kleinfield. It is so astoundingly good I wondered how a writer this great could have escaped my notice. I’m still shocked, but I did discover that he wrote a book I read over 30 years ago, The Biggest Company on Earth. It’s about AT&T and I was working in telecommunications at the time. This was pre-divestiture and they were the only game in town. So yeah, working with AT&T was a bit of a nightmare (I liked some of the people though). I honestly don’t remember what I thought of the book overall, I just remember learning some interesting things about the company. And the bigness of them.

Anyway, read the story I linked to. I’m using it for inspiration for the book I’m writing now.

A statue on the building across the street from the statue I posted the other day. She (or he) looks as miserable as the other guy. And pissed.

I’m very excited! The place that always has the best Halloween decorations just put up their offering for this year. I will have to come back and film this guy at night, on Halloween, because his swing is on some sort of pulley system.

This is the same place that had a zombie girl on a swing a year or two ago. It was the best Halloween decoration I’d ever seen.

Richard Dawkins was speaking in the lobby of the main branch of the New York Public Library, where I’ve been poring over 150 year old annual reports. I didn’t stop to listen to him because he’s just so repellent at times. But I’m sure they didn’t ask him any questions about religion or working with women.

I love looking up and finding gargoyles and faces and other figures that grace older buildings. This is a figure on a building I always pass by on my way to the library. He looks so sad. In fact, it looks like he might be sobbing. Also, that position is a little obscene.

I just spotted my first Halloween decoration yesterday! I’m so excited. My neighborhood always does Halloween right.