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here for news May to August 2011) THE PRESENT BLOG WAS DISCONTINUED ON 31 December 2011, UPON PUBLICATION OF VOLUME 3 OF IN THE HEART OF SHOWBIZ (NY: chelCbooks, 424 pages) http://chelcbooks.com/ ____________________________________________________ Happenings31 December 2011When
I lived in Hell's Kitchen on 45th Street, two
blocks from where the ball falls from the old Times
building on New Year's Eve, I never missed the
wild scene. Now, with everyone penned in for
hours and no bathroom and no way to push back
and forward until someone would fall and risk
being stomped upon, it wouldn't be any fun at
all. I'll be watching at home in Greenwich
Village as I have for quite a few years. The
good ol' days are gone forever, and with
trepidation and anxiety I think about the
growing gap between poor and rich, the growing
interest in theistic authoritarianism rather
than democratic secularism, and the dumbing down
of the importance of the humanities.
30 December 2011 I
have a new Executor of my Estate: Emery,
an attorney who pointed out that my self-written
Will had all the italics and semicolons in the
right place but contained major legal
deficiencies. Moral: Don't be your own lawyer or
your own physician! But do write
7 books between being 80 and 90. . . .
 27 December 2011 Following
is a photo about one of my former New Canaan
parents, famed American photographer Pedro
E. Guerrero
(who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander
Calder, and Louise Nevelson). It was sent to me
by his daughter, my ex-student Barbara
Guerrero
in Vermont.
Pedro (born 1917) is reading The New York Times on his new iPad2. Not bad for another nonagenarian. |