tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380434.post115229822519117834..comments2023-09-12T09:37:46.032-04:00Comments on Alexander's Maitresse: Same as it ever wasla Maitressehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455677433703086396noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380434.post-1152557082602912122006-07-10T14:44:00.000-04:002006-07-10T14:44:00.000-04:00Am I allowed to ask: "What's a private school cons...Am I allowed to ask: "What's a private school consultant?"Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13464393340517511305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380434.post-1152550724588552312006-07-10T12:58:00.000-04:002006-07-10T12:58:00.000-04:00Roo & I were just talking about how Vancouver is g...Roo & I were just talking about how Vancouver is getting so big & certainly more violent but still is so friendly. People call out 'thank you' to bus drivers. Roo takes the skytrain (light rapid rail) to work & every once in a while, someone faints and immediately people rush to help & dig out juice boxes from their lunch bags to offer. (in fact, almost 12 years ago, <B>I</B>, pregnant with A., fainted on the train & got that same response. After that I wouldn't get on the train unless I could get a seat & on one occasion I got on and started to back out, seeing no seats, but right away another standing guy bellowed out 'yo, lady needs a seat!' and a bunch of people offered.....I think someone would have anyway but I was in no hurry & this offering of seats to women is touchy as some women get awfully offended....)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, what we think is that the only way to fight this is by just doing what you're doing - by being the person to be polite, to take notice, to get involved. The more people do it, the more it ripples out.hornblowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11428146299208610591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380434.post-1152463449787959762006-07-09T12:44:00.000-04:002006-07-09T12:44:00.000-04:00Well, O.K., won't ask about consultant, but I will...Well, O.K., won't ask about consultant, but I will wonder... Hope your early morning on the water was peaceful.--JamaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380434.post-1152367595067969192006-07-08T10:06:00.000-04:002006-07-08T10:06:00.000-04:00When I read about the power saw thing, I thought a...When I read about the power saw thing, I thought about the painter character in Woody Allen's Hannah and her Three Sisters. He's watching a movie like The Sorrow and the Pity or something (one of the famous Nazi movies) and his girlfriend (played by Barbara Hershey) remarks that it's so incredible that something like the Holocaust could have happened, and he (I forgot who plays him, a great actor who was in Bergman movies) says what shocks him is that things like the Holocaust don't happen every day. (not that they don't) (see Rwanda; etc)<BR/><BR/>But anyway, with all the tension and insecurity and insanity, things in NYC generally seem much more peaceful to me than one might expect. <BR/><BR/>The sexual accosting thing is horrible, but it happens everywhere -- in every town and city and on college campuses, too. I don't think of it as a NYC thing.<BR/><BR/>What surprises me most of all is to hear that you live in an outerboro! At some point I deduced incorrectly that you lived in Chelsea. I assume you moved!<BR/><BR/>As for David Byrne, I used to see him lots of days at the Bleecker Street Playground when I was practically in residence there with my son during the 90's. He has a daughter whom he'd hang out. <BR/><BR/>Other Bleecker Playground sitings:<BR/><BR/>-James Gandolfini <BR/>-Sandra Bernhard <BR/>-Julian Schnabel's twins and their dual nannies (never a parent with those boys)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380434.post-1152325362057716922006-07-07T22:22:00.000-04:002006-07-07T22:22:00.000-04:00I'm not asking but between that and the rest of yo...I'm not asking but between that and the rest of your day, my eyebrows are so high up they're under my hairline.<BR/><BR/>I'm wishing you a peaceful weekend...Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17697320319544886978noreply@blogger.com