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Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
MAY
25, 2004 --
The
Billionaires for Bush Ball An Offer from Newsweek The LPR proprietor received, May 25, a professional offer from Newsweek magazine that he could not refuse, almost. One year's subscription for $25. The rate from announcing this offer kindly stated that the annual cover price was $217.25; consequently this recipient would save $192.25. The offer included a two-year plan, costing $50 and a four year plan coasting $84. (And just about incalculable savings?) Why is Newsweek so generous to persons it deems professionals? LPR would prefer Newsweek share its altruism with all, non-professionals and professionals alike. The Federalist 57 way. LPR also notes that the money-back guarantee provides "full refund on all unmailed issues if you are not 100% satisfied." It is not clear that full refund will be made should Newsweek stop publishing during the subscription term. LPR would be amenable to a consolation check from Newsweek i/a/o $100 which, by LPR's calculation -- deducting from the $192.25 LPR might otherwise amount to a savings to Newsweek of $92.25.
What a Difference 11 minutes can make department. Reuters
headline by way of Yahoo! Finance, May 25, 1:43 P.M. E.T.: Associated
Press (AP) headline by way of Yahoo! Finance, May 25, 1:32 P.M. E.T.: LPR Correction It is E.Z. (Zed) Pine (Pine, not Pines) who appeared in Wallace Shawn's "The Fever," in Litchfield, CT on May 8. LPR apologizes for the error.
MAY 14, 2004 -- On Record Gas Prices Those record high gas prices ... Anyone in the Bush administration saying that this is good for the economy? Perhaps it is time for motorists to agree to a day without purchasing gas to send a message to the folks waging economic war on us that we are not going to roll over.
Broadway Show League Fiddler on the Roof and 42nd Street in a display of good sportsmanship after a May 12 Broadway Show League exhibition between these teams, won by Fiddler 13 to 12. For information on the league: standings, results, schedule, league news, please go to the league's website: www.broadwayshowleague.com. On a non-league Broadway matter, it was reported May 14 that Thoroughly Modern Millie will close on June 20. A good thing, then, that Millie is not one of the eight Broadway musicals that delegates to the Republican National Convention will be taken to see on August 29, the night before the convention opens in Madison Square Garden, somewhat off-Broadway. Hal Luftig, one of Millie's producers was quoted in The New York Times as predicting that the G.O.P. convention, what with security concerns, will not be good for Broadway business this summer. Okay ... Now to see if one of the G.O.P. eight --- Aida, Beauty and the Beast, Bombay Dreams, Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, Lion King, Phantom of the Opera, or Wonderful Town will close before August 29 -- or disinvite Republicans as bad for business. Political Fantasy Wouldn't it be something if motorists and other consumers formed a third party, concluding that Bush or Kerry will let the current economic squeeze continue, and nominated a candidate committed to the democratic spirit of Federalist 57? The Squeeze Goes On
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MAY 14, 2004 -- On War, Roads, and Oil The deplorable conditions of roadways in New York City -- worst LPR has ever seen -- suggest that City Hall is using these unmaintained roadways as another front in its war against motorists. Perhaps in coming weeks--- say after a car driven by an editor or columnist has suffered significant damage due to bad road surfaces --- the mainmedia will take notice. Meanwhile, the $40 price of a barrel of oil seems to be a gauntlet thrown at President Bush, testing our will to respond to economic warfare-- as well as to terrorism. LPR has no quarrel with the President's commitment, May 12, to continue until the mission in Iraq is completed, but this, of course, indicates how rash his aides were in putting up that "Mission Accomplished" sign was, last year. Senator/Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry, chatting with Don Imus, May 12, used the phrase "fare thee well." But not, LPR thinks, to bond with us citizen-grunts. GOOD JOB! LPR is not sure what it means, but the day the stock market went below 10,000 for the first time in six months, LPR ended its first 400-website visit week. Thank you LonelyPamphleteerians. (And shame, shame, stock market).
MAY 7, 2004 -- LPR Policy Statement Lonely Pamphleteer Review will not carry photos of Michael Bloomberg so long as he serves as Finemeister of the city, rather than as mayor. Accordingly, there will be no photos of the Finemeister's appearance at Father Duffy Square in Manhattan on May 5. LPR will, of course, refer to Mr. Bloomberg as Finemeister Bloomberg.
LPR Announcement Lonely Pamphleteer Review plans to add a regular feature called Viewing Outside the Event, to be cited as VOTE. The feature will give news from outside the Yankee Stadium Press Gate, among other outside the event places. Upcoming events on LPR's view from the outside schedule: • New York City meeting of the 9/11 Commission. • The Tony Awards (LPR hopes to get a group photo of all Broadway Show League participants who attend this year's Tonys). Where right is wrong-- Republicans please note For reasons not perfectly clear, it is now against the law in New York City to drive directly from the Imperial theater's stage door on West 46th Street to the Minskoff Theater on West 45th Street. Both theaters are between Broadway / Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue, the Minskoff on the south side of 45th and the Imperial closer to Eighth Avenue on the north side of 45. But the Imperial's stage door, as already noted, is on 46th and to get from there to the Minskoff by car, apparently drivers must go by way of Sixth Avenue (will the city fine writers for not using Avenue of the Americas, as well?) to 47th Street and then down Broadway, taking care to stay in the right lane to enter West 45th Street. LPR learned this the hard way, getting pulled over to the curb upon demand of several--perhaps five in all -- member of the New York City Police Department. There is indeed a sign at this intersection, although perhaps not as clear, nor as visible at night as it might be, but, then, clarity is the enemy of many traffic summonses--and, it follows, the enemy of added revenue to the city. LPR will not take the summons meekly. GOP conventioneers are warned to avoid at 46th and Broadway/Seventh the natural inclination to make a right turn on a green light to go to one's destination a block away. LPR does marvel at the number of police at this "gotcha" corner, on a rainy, quiet Monday night when compared to First Avenue on a Friday evening rush hour from, say, 14th Street to 59th Street. If there is a police presence to ease bottlenecks, it is all undercover. If this warning is ignored and the motorist makes an immediate right turn onto Broadway and not the second immediate right turn onto Seventh Avenue (these thoroughfares run next to each other at this point), the morotist is cautioned not to get out of her car unless she has legal authority that permits such exiting and, thus, trumps the policeman's demand to stay in the car with the door closed. Where is United for Peace and Justice when the unwary citizen is in need of peace and justice in the face of a heavy handed (and with hand out) City Hall? Heavens, what if--the exorbitant parking fines and the "gotcha" traffic regs have been created by canny New York City Democratic pols to hammer the Republican convention and conventioneers into bankruptcy, while adding a billion bucks to city finances?
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MAY 1, 2004 -- Shandi Meets Shana Newly-crowned Miss USA Shandi Finnessey met briefly with Shana in The Bronx, April 23. Miss USA was heading to the Press gate at Yankee Stadium, for the first Yankee-Red Sox game (won by Boston 11-2) when she spotted Shana and asked to meet her. Shana undemonstrably appreciated Miss USA's pat, after which a smiling Miss USA went to the game. NOTE TO CELEBRITIES: Shana will be happy to make your acquaintance. Please contact her via the LPR web address. Principals only; Shana will not take calls from agents
Federalist 57 Commendation LPR awards a Federalist 57 commendation to New York Yankees Hideki Matsui, for signing an autograph for a boy after the Red Sox game, April 25. Yankee Matsui signed his autograph not far from a sign on the inside of the Press Gate declaring "No Autographs." In LPR's view, the expression on Hideki Matsui's face as he gives the boy the requested autograph is what baseball should be all about. Good Federalist 57 job, Hideki. Except, LPR wonders how much Hideki will be fined for violating the No Autographs rule?
GOP Convention Spot to Visit The Invisible Man sculpture at 150th Street and Riverside Drive -- honoring Ralph Ellison, African-American author of the book with that name and who lived on the north side of 150th and Riverside. The sculpture offers two quite different perspectives, through the invisibility space. Presently, some African-Americans are contending that the Kerry Campaign is treating them as invisibles.
Thank You LPR Readers: LPR went over 3,000 visits April 30. Thank You Google: For bringing LPR
to the search page by punching in pamphleteer with names
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