Diary

Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face

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Poem by Jack Prelutsky Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it is not, you might dislike your nose a lot. Imagine if your precious nose were sandwiched in between your toes, that clearly would not be a treat, for you’d be forced to smell your feet. Your nose would be a image [Read More]
Books, Fiction

The Great Gatsby

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What a great book! It is short enough that you can read it in one day. I recommend that you set aside a Sunday and get rapped at in this marvelous piece of American fiction.  F. Scott Fitzgerald is a masterful writer. His prose is a bit reminiscent of Joseph Roth. He sets up a image [Read More]
Diary

The Press is Cleaning Itself

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It was the Guardian and not the British Police that kept on investigating who knew about or had authorized the bugging of phones.  The scandal already has claimed for prominent players. And now the press is turning on Rupert Murdoch has being too old to run his empire. Will he be able to survive.  JEANNE image [Read More]
Diary

Married, With Infidelities

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I have been struck by how badly I am able to predict who among my family and friends would stay married and who would get divorced. The couple who had the best marriage ended up having the most acrimonious divorce. Here is an article in the NY Magazine that does a great job laying out image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Almanya—Welcome to Germany

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When the economy took off in the 1950s, Germany experienced severe labor shortages.  So employer unions and politicians hatched the idea to import guest workers from Turkey and other southern European countries.  By the middle 1970s these “guest workers” were allowed to bring their families to Germany and settle there permanently. Today,  about 3.5 million image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

Cedar Rapids

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Selling insurance is one of the most boring jobs in the world. But some people’s personality seems to be uniquely suited for this line of work. Tim Lippe is one of them. The most excitement Tim has experienced in life to date is having sex with his former 7th grade teacher (Segourney Weaver) once week. image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

Bridesmaides

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Watching a teenage girl lose her boyfriend of 3 weeks is a lot less scary than watching a woman in her late 30 losing her boyfriend of three years. The film relies on the fact that as adults we all realize that the teenage girl is probably better off being “back on the market” image [Read More]