Is Everyone Off Attending the Inauguration Today?

originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Thor:
Neither one of you has visited me lately. Be careful wills can be changed.
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Hey, I tried, but you insisted on traipsing off to Constantinople.
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Byzantium, FTW!
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Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by The Latin Liquidator:
curiously unfunky, all things considered. Beyonc should stay away from Etta James' material.
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Agreed. Beyonc may be famous, but she is not a star. In my opinion.
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She has a voice with way too much new oak for its own good, if you will. One can discern good substance, but all the adornment just kills anything she touches. Even attempting to do Etta James is horrible...
 
Not to mention the advantages climate-wise right now. For the record, what types of businesses bear Trujillo's name in Santo Domingo? Mercado el chivo, maybe?

Mark Lipton
(anxiously awaiting the next novel by Junot Daz)
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Mark,

Curiously enough, Trujillo is pretty much erased, landmark-wise. I think it's just a reaction to his lifetime, when everything was named after him... Oh, and the other day, in a copy of a local "style" magazine left in my office by an ad salesman, I saw that someone is actually named "Hitler Tejada". Hs picture was taken, I think, at a Mercedes-Benz event.

Junot Daz seems to come down here quite a bit, or at least has done so since I've lived here. I saw him at a reception once, but didn't find out who he was until he'd vanished from sight. That book was fun.
 
originally posted by The Latin Liquidator:

Curiously enough, Trujillo is pretty much erased, landmark-wise. I think it's just a reaction to his lifetime, when everything was named after him... Oh, and the other day, in a copy of a local "style" magazine left in my office by an ad salesman, I saw that someone is actually named "Hitler Tejada". Hs picture was taken, I think, at a Mercedes-Benz event.
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Stranger than fiction indeed! Not too curious, the erasure of Trujillo, though his cultural imprint is probably less vile than e.g. Duvalier's to the East.

Junot Daz seems to come down here quite a bit, or at least has done so since I've lived here. I saw him at a reception once, but didn't find out who he was until he'd vanished from sight. That book was fun.
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That happened to me all the time when I lived on Manhattan ("Woody Allen was where? I walked past Isaac Asimov?"), the only genuine celebrity sighting being a regrettable encounter with Jaco in an East Village bar during his long downward spiral.

Mark Lipton
 
Duvalier would have been west of here, Mark... East is Puerto Rico, where there has been no lack of sordid goings-on, but sans Docs.

I used to run into Richard Dreyfuss all the time when I lived on 63rd. And Spike Lee was my neighbor. Also, spotted Rene Zellweger a couple of times. Saw Ozzy once in the Village, too. And the Rev. Sharpton many times, different spots. Woody Allen, twice. David Bowie, once. Ditto for David Byrne. And bumped into Michael Caine.Oh, and Lenny Kravitz. And a whole slew of Latina celebrities that Josie used to point out, but of whom I knew little. She's the entertainment journalist, so it's her responsibility to know them. I just say who's hot.

Oh, and I used to see Joe Dressner quite a bit. And SFJoe. And a strange creature referred to as "Brad Kane".

My life in New York was celebrity-sighting-rich.

I hear Denzel Washington and Madona recently spent time in Cap Cana. Didn't get to see them. I was a couple of hundred miles west.
 
originally posted by The Latin Liquidator:
Duvalier would have been west of here, Mark... East is Puerto Rico, where there has been no lack of sordid goings-on, but sans Docs.
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Argh! So much for my vaunted geographical knowledge. I suppose that I'll have to stop referring to Cuba as "our neighbor to the North" now, too?

My life in New York was celebrity-sighting-rich.
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I suppose that living on the East Side does provide a little more opportunity for celeb-sighting than the Upper-upper-upper-West Side (aka West Harlem), though I did have no end of opportunity to witness the goings-on at Grant's Tomb outside my *********** window.

I hear Denzel Washington and Madona recently spent time in Cap Cana. Didn't get to see them. I was a couple of hundred miles west.
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From my time in Mexico, I know that there's a very active cottage industry in sighting La Madonna. Better luck next time.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
I suppose that living on the East Side does provide a little more opportunity for celeb-sighting than the Upper-upper-upper-West Side (aka West Harlem)..
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Different celebrities!
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by MLipton:
I suppose that living on the East Side does provide a little more opportunity for celeb-sighting than the Upper-upper-upper-West Side (aka West Harlem)..
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Different celebrities!
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I was going to say exactly the same thing.

As far as the Madonna-sighting cottage industry, the eastern resorts of the Dominican Republic have proven quite fetching to all sorts of celebrities. I may just start my own sighting company, specializing exclusively in SFJoe.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by MLipton:


Well, the outgoing administration was far more hostile to science than just neglect. In addition to those cases of suppression and modification of research results that the article cites, there was also the unprecedented politicization of the peer review process in various scientific agencies. Political appointees to NIH study sections was unique to Bush II, for instance. However, it would be a mistake IMO to put the blame on Conservatism broadly, as it really reflects the hostility to science that is endemic to the Religious Right.
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No, I think it is endemic to most of America.
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So I'm flipping through the tv channels while on the elliptical trainer (only place I watch tv) and spend some time watching KyleXY. I was somewhat horrified to hear this (paraphrased) exchange:

"So you don't think we can trust them?"
"No, they're scientists after all."
"Good point."
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by MLipton:


Well, the outgoing administration was far more hostile to science than just neglect. In addition to those cases of suppression and modification of research results that the article cites, there was also the unprecedented politicization of the peer review process in various scientific agencies. Political appointees to NIH study sections was unique to Bush II, for instance. However, it would be a mistake IMO to put the blame on Conservatism broadly, as it really reflects the hostility to science that is endemic to the Religious Right.
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No, I think it is endemic to most of America.
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So I'm flipping through the tv channels while on the elliptical trainer (only place I watch tv) and spend some time watching KyleXY. I was somewhat horrified to hear this (paraphrased) exchange:

"So you don't think we can trust them?"
"No, they're scientists after all."
"Good point."
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Wow. But I guess that is where our popular culture is these days.
 
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