Today Acadia and I spent four hours together inside a moving car. Greenville to Southern Pines without incident. By 3 p.m., we were checked into our surprisingly attractive room at the Southern Pines Econo Lodge and by 4 p.m. I was sipping a mocha latte at Flynne’s Coffee Bar, an old haunt. I remember the Econo Lodge chain […]
Here’s the master talking to his protegee: “If you figure out a way to live without a master, any master, be sure to let the rest of us know, for you would be the first in the history of the world.” Joachim Phoenix (the protegee) is ending a tempestuous bromance with Philip Seymore Hoffman (the […]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s official (I guess that’s the term) sign language interpereter is a woman named Lydia Callas. She acquired what the blogosphere is referring to as a “fan base” during Bloomberg’s recent Sandy-related press conferences, easily upstaging the expressionless mayor with her expressive signing. These things I learned today by googling […]
