A Beautiful Thing

So it's just another Saturday night on the A List here - putzing around in cyberland.

Something made me think of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" >> purchased on iTunes/listend >> I was curious about its historical impact >> Googled >> Wikipedia tells me it was #47 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [Sidebar: Really? Of All Time? The age bias is so obvious it's not even funny.] >> I see that "California Dreamin'" is #89 >> am reminded of Mama Cass >> find her songs on YouTube >> land on this:



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OK, Who Remembers This?

Hello, Lehman Sports Club, circa 1999/2000? Anyone?



Ah, those were good years . . .

I'm sure being ten years younger had something to do with it, but still.

In New York . . .

I admit it - this song gives me chills.



NYC is special - just ask anyone who lives there. (Even the transplants . . . especially the transplants!)

I do love it. I've never lived there, although I've wanted to. It's the home of the nation's first capital/ol, West Side Story, dinners with JT in the early 2000s, many fun nights and days, Tiffane from Queens and Paula from the Bronx at Dr. M's office, Studio 54, first trip to g with RR in 1997, DJ Daddy Bear at Posh, db bistro moderne, meeting V & J in 2000 (town period), MARKT, meeting Eric Leven at the Eagle, all Whit Stillman movies, my 40th birthday party (thank you friends!), DavidDust, Hannukah Hairy at Eastern Bloc, many more fun nights and days, SATC - and the list goes on and on and on.

Let's hear it for New York.

[SORRY - too lazy to adjust the YouTube dimensions.]

Lawrence O'Donnell Will Read You to Filth

. . . if you dare to question his vast knowledge of how The Congress Works, and The Way Things Are (or at least Ought To Be).

Did bitch just GO OFF on Alan Grayson? I could not believe my ears or eyes.

For 20 years, we have seen every Lying Liar get up on the teevee on Sunday mornings and on every weeknight and puke up whatever bullshit spin they want with only the meekest of objections or follow-up questions or challenges (IF that). However, tonight, on friggin' MSNBC, the odious Villager Lawrence O'Donnell decided that now was the time to go all veins-bulging, spittle-flying pit bull on someone . . . and that someone was Alan Grayson.

Even if Alan Grayson was completely wrong, NOW we decide to erupt in a Mt. St. Helens of indignation? Now?? On MSNBC? On him??

Of all the out and out LIES - I repeat: l-i-e-s LIES - that have been puked up, even on MSNBC, it's Alan f-ing Grayson upon whom someone decides to puke up a gigantic emesis of sanctimony?? FUCK.