Mayor Bloomberg on Wednesday said: "Graffiti does ruin people's property and it's a sign of decay and loss of control...Nobody is a bigger supporter of the arts than I am. I just think there are some places for art and some places where-no art." Doesn't the NYPD have far better things to do with its time than hunt for Mr. Banksy? Hmmm. One might also argue that GREED is a sign of decay and loss of control. No shortage of that in the last New York decade now was there? Not too many of THOSE were arrested were they?! Want help with a list of names as a reminder or perhaps even an eye-opener Mr Mayor? (Well that is ex-Mayor after the election on Nov5, 2013. But you do officially get to keep the title).
You kinda wished, though, that the anti-Goldman Sachs protesters outside Trump Tower (formerly the Gulf &Western building) were a little better dressed. One stopped at offering each $50 (actually you could do a nice job for $40- can I have the 'tenner' back please? ) to buy a new wardrobe at one of New York's plentiful thrift shops. And one also wanted to hand them each a copy of Steven G. Mandis' What Happened to Goldman Sachs. (good Mary Kissel review- sorry about the pay wall- but there are other reviews;) History is a little more complex than most wish to believe.
Getting so much better all the time....
and if you thought that there was only one Downing Street (and yes there is indeed another No.10-cheaper than renting in most accessible London boroughs) with problems, then read the right of Yoko Ono's NY apartment HERE.
Oh: and did we recommend go see Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine! Of course we did. You just weren't listening carefully enough. OK! It's maybe not that subtle, or that clever, or that anything - and that goes for the cinematography too. Let's be honest. But: I DEFY you to say it does not have heart in spades! And I defy you to claim who has done a better re-working of Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire in recent or ever memory? And if Cate Blanchett isn't nominated for an Academy Award for her role then I will publicly eat my $100 bill! (It is an open bar at that party now isn't it...? :) Let alone Sally Hawkins in her role (who knew but Woody Allen (and Mike Leigh) ...!...come on) And while we are on the subject of mass-debating the future of our planet go see Woody Allen's Whatever Works - a film that NO HUMAN critic seemed to like (Warner Brothers the Brit distributor relegated it to a tiny screening room at the press show- not worthy of the big man seats of the 'lush' theatre!- I feel echoes of Charlie Chaplin in Limelight)- Sony in the States were a bit more enthusiastic- come on. Ha, ha HE proved you wrong with Blue Jasmine! Didn't have anything to do with the fact that:? Whatever Works refused to have a political or socially redeeming theme of any sort except- excuse me- perhaps; sometimes real life has a far happier ending than utter planetary bullshit!
(p.s.- NASA is back online. However, unconfirmed reports reveal how signals from a distant galaxy indicating a 'reaching out' were not reciprocated by us during the government shutdown. Most worrying thing about that report is that alien life forms use 'reaching out' in their vocabulary seeming only conversant with C21 CRM. And here we were expecting a 'twitter' in algorithm. Back to amoeba one and Walmarts of the cosmos. (p.p.s.- if you wrote 'reaching out' to a Brit they wouldn't know what you were talking about except perhaps assuming that you were another shyster after their tiny jug of pennies. So: not much difference in definition there really....)
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