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Comment on When Politics Comes Calling by My Neighbors Got It Wrong | City of Smoke

My Neighbors Got It Wrong | City of Smoke — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:50:00 +0000

[...] When Politics Comes Calling [...]

Comment on When Politics Comes Calling by Carolyn Cramer

Carolyn Cramer — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:49:08 +0000

Bill: I worked with your Mom and we remain friends even though we are miles away. She forwarded this to me. Obviously, she is very proud.

I am also very much annoyed with the politician’s phone calls. We didn’t get many volunteer calls, but a lot from the candidates.

Kudos to you

Comment on When Politics Comes Calling by maggie kinney

maggie kinney — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:29:30 +0000

Hi Bill. You are a great writer!! Congratulations! I hope all is well! Maggie

Comment on McCain and Me by Another Last Hurrah? | City of Smoke

Another Last Hurrah? | City of Smoke — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:11:17 +0000

[...] recently, I stood for Vice President of the United States in the New Hampshire primaries, which I wrote about in 2000. It was all in good fun and as—much to my surprise and delight—I won, I found myself with yet [...]

Comment on Just Say “NOTA” by Requiescat L.D. Knox | City of Smoke

Requiescat L.D. Knox | City of Smoke — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:10:18 +0000

[...] as I argued in 2004, the “None of the Above” option has increasing appeal when many elections are [...]

Comment on Small Change by Pocket Change « City of Smoke

Pocket Change « City of Smoke — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:35:14 +0000

[...] The original Lincoln cent, designed by Victor David Brenner, reflected the genius of the sculptor and of President Theodore Roosevelt, himself an aesthete, who forced change on the Mint bureaucracy of his day because he found the coinage of the United States unworthy of a great republic. It still is. For the most part, the heroes on our coinage and paper money depict the men considered great half a century ago. [...]

Comment on Susan Boyle and the Tigers of the Night by Mimi Kramer-Bryk

Mimi Kramer-Bryk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:47:13 +0000

Many thanks, Abra. I’m working on it!

Comment on Susan Boyle and the Tigers of the Night by Abra Bigham

Abra Bigham — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:51:03 +0000

Mimi, how nice to come across this – wonderful insights. So very very nice to read you again. More, please!

Comment on Confessions of a Theme Whore by Mimi Kramer-Bryk

Mimi Kramer-Bryk — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:15:18 +0000

Thanks, Joe, for your insights and for the link. I’ll be sure to check it out.

Comment on Confessions of a Theme Whore by Joe DeFilippo

Joe DeFilippo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:09:24 +0000

sorry, i don’t think it’s so obviously nonsense that chase et al might intend to recall the red barn painting in setting up the killing of tony blundetto. your first instinct was good–maybe not correct, but certainly not obviously nonsense. Not sure that art is a huge issue in itself throughout the series, but it definitely is used in interesting and important–and quirky–ways, as is nature. pine barrens, bear, ducks–even (maybe especially) the jersey suburban setting itself, which is removed from the urban newark of tony’s childhood and his father’s simpler, less conflicted life. when you move west from newark, you move into more prosperous and sylvan settings, which are closer to nature but nevertheless not really nature, and characters find that the more prosperous setting doesn’t really make them better or happier. in some sense it makes them less happy and less emotionally stable, and so they need therapy…. i’ve always felt that chase was in part doing with italians what roth did with jews in goodbye columbus (the story, not the movie, which is atrociously set in nyc/scarsdale rather than newark/short hills).

on art in sopranos btw, have you seen this? http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/1406/1/