JUNE 27,
2005 --
The Not-So-Lonely
Pamphleteer Review …
According to the LPR counter, this website got more than 25,000 clicks the
first six months of 2005 (compared with some 18,000 clicks for 2004). Many
thanks to the clicksters in the U.S., and also to those in Canada, France,
Germany, Australia, Mexico and Taiwan.
A Call from the GOP …
Last week, this writer received a call from the Republican National Committee
asking him to support the president's agenda. The writer ended the call on
hearing a request for $100 or more.
Have politicians no shame? The indications abound that the American people
are not being served well by their leaders, and they want us to send them voluntary
contributions on top of the taxes that are levied on us while the major parties
squabble among themselves
and represent only those people who retain high-powered lobbyists -- and present
an image to the world that invites disrespect.
LPR here replies to the call from the GOP with a request that it act on the
thoughts here expressed to revive the Founding spirit of our country.
JUNE 20,
2005 --
Every Borough
a Baseball Stadium?
The incredible NYC statium turnaround indicates that New York City Council
Speaker A. Gifford Miller was on target telling LPR in April that the west
side stadium would not happen but a Queens stadium would get wide support.
Just look at the support the new Queens stadium is getting from...City Hall.
But is there something still going on? Is there a plan to claim that lack of
a huge stadium for Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island denies those boroughs
equal protection of the laws.
Is there yet a plan to get the west side stadium constructed under this developing
legal principle: one borough, one 50,000-plus stadium?
The week that was …
Alas -- LPR was unable to attend the New York International Independent Film
and Video Festival Awards, at Gallery, June 17. The award winners are listed
on the festival website, reachable via the LPR
link.
Alas, too, LPR was unable to attend last week's Broadway Show League games,
spending June 16 appreciating the skill and expertise of Dr. Paul M. Basuk,
a terrific gastro-enterologist. For the results of the June 16 games, please
use the LPR link to the league website.
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JUNE
19, 2005 --
Afterword
on the Tonys …
LPR recalls a TV commercial for a women's hair product -- Toni -- that showed
two twins and asked: "Which twin has the Toni?"
Looking at some prints of the atmosphere outside Radio City Musical Hall, Tony
night, June 5, LPR here presents photos of two crowds outside the site of the
2005 Tony awards and asks:
Which crowd has the Tony tickets?
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Visitor
from Seattle (foreground, r) hoped that Bartlett Sher,
artistic director from Seattle's Intiman Theatre, would
get the Tony for directing the musical, "The Light
in the Piazza."
Mike Nichols got the Tony for directing a musical "Spamalot," but "Light
in the Piazza" got six Tonys, including one to Victoria Clark, for
best performance by a leading actress in a musical.
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JUNE
19, 2005 --
It
is time to medicate oil traders?
The New York Times reported, June 18, that imagined fears over oil supplies,
'appeared to inject anxiety into the market." What if business world anxiety
is
something a bit more than "a psychiatric hangnail," using a phrase
in The New York Times recently.
JUNE
13, 2005 --
Should
We Take Note of Business World Anxiety Disorders?
On the subject of anxiety disorder, does this in any part include people whose
anxieties send the stock market plummeting when a given stock fails to meet
its expected earning by two cents.
And how about credit card companies that lash out at customers, hitting them
with late charges and also 26% interest rates for missing a payment, and not
returning the interest rate to humane levels when the customer gets current
in payment?
Is this action
by credit card companies fair business dealing or perhaps a reflection
-- when the custormer cures his default -- of
a business world anxiety disorder?
The Great Wall Collapse Update …
Apparently the owner of the stalwart red car at the end of the Washington Heights
Great Wall Fall was lucky to have been able to have the car removed. A report
in The New York Times indicated that some people still have their cars buried
under the rocks and will not be able to get their cases settled until the rocks
are cleared from the site. And this might be months
away. LPR wonders what would be left of any car under all that rock.
NYC2012 Update …
Apparently after months of insisting the New York City bid to host the 2012
Olympics and Paralympics requires a stadium on the west side of Manhattan,
City Hall is willing to consider a stadium in Queens. It is unclear to LPR
why City Hall couldn't have been more flexible all along.
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JUNE 8, 2005
--
LPR Calls
for Repeal of Murphy's Law …
1) It is unfair to the name Murphy.
2) It is misnamed.
It should be:
Anxiety's Law -- if something can go wrong it will
JUNE 8, 2005 --
Why truly
helping hands are appreciated by an anxious
person …
LPR has an idea that anxiety (in the clutter context) is the
body's way of telling the mind -- or vice versa -- that you have gotten
youself into a neat how-de-do and what are you going to do about it because
body (or mind) hasn't a clue?
JUNE 5, 2005
--
The Tonys …
LPR visited Rockefeller Center the evening of June 5 to see if TV monitors
had been set up for bystanders to watch the Tony Awards, televised on CBS.
There seemed a lot more people than last year watching the celebrities enter
Radio City Music Hall on 50th Street (in previous years, the celebrities entered
on 51st Street) -- but LPR could find no TV monitors to accomodate the crowd
during the show. Maybe next year?
LPR caught the last hour or so at home, interested to notice some award winners
talking at a microphone with the sound cut off. But the program presumably
did
end on time -- at 11 p.m.
Mark Felt
Admits He is Deep Throat …
At no time did LPR have anxiety as to the identity of the Watergate source
known as "Deep Throat." LPR does wonder, now, if President Nixon
suffered from anxiety.
Certainly the replacement president, on "24" -- this season -- seemed
a bit anxious and, to LPR, bore some resemblance to Mr. Nixon. Mr. Felt, a
high-ranking FBI official when he was a Washington Post source on Watergate,
is said, at age 91, about to make some
money as a result of his disclosure.
He would certainly not be the first Watergate figure to get a book deal.
LPR hopes that the back-biting, indeed back-stabbing, conduct evident on this
season's "24" -- attributed to government officials in the intelligence
and counter-terrorism fields, ostensibly on the same
side -- ours -- is just a reference to, say, the Watergate Era and has no current
basis in fact. The American people have no need for a cause of national anxiety.
Thank you
Greg Segal …
LPR had a very good week, last week and it might have had something to do with
you pointing Mario Vasquez out. LPR, as always, welcomes new clicksters and
hopes you keep clicking this populist website.
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Greg
Segal, John Gallagher and
American Idol's Mario Vasquez from the SIxth Semi-Annual Home Film Fest
in May.
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