Quote of the day as you are on your way!

Last Monday, Dec 21,I was riding the Bx21 bus down to the East 180th Street Station at 3:39pm.

The bus driver had written on a whiteboard facing the passengers:

"Success comes in cans.

Failures come in can'ts."

The truest words I have ever seen written on a bus!

Coats for Clunkers

This morning, I took a very nice leopard-print faux fur coat to the coat drive at the police precinct at the Union Square subway station.

"Wow!" said the male officer when I showed it. "That's the nicest one I've seen all year!"

"He wants to steal it for his drag queen shows," deadpanned his female assistant.

Aesop in the Bronx

I was up in the Bronx when I passed a business at 1084 Morris Park. It had the following sign in their window:

"Whines are the products of sour grapes."

Hee hee

I just overheard one coworker ask another if she was going to the workshop on "smoking sensation."

She meant "cessation".

A weird unintended compliment.

This morning, I washed a load of laundry at the laundromat around the corner. because it was so close by, I went out in some sweats to get it when it was dry.

An older guy chomping a cigar told me it was too cold to be out just like that. Then he said in a concerned voice, "You're too young to know what I'm talking about. Go talk to your mother about it."

I am 36 years old and haven't lived in my parents' house since 1995.

Happy 20th anniversary to the Fall of the Berlin Wall!

I remember on Nov 9, 1989, my Catholic school broadcast over the PA the United Nations playing John Lennon's song "Imagine" when the Berlin Wall fell.

Happy birthday, Sesame Street!

Sesame Street turns 40!

Sesame Street debuted on Nov 10, 1969 and has been going strong ever since. It's first episode was brought to you by the letters W, S & E, and the numbers 2 & 3.

The show was first taped at Teletape Studios at West 81st Street and Broadway, then at Dick Cavett's old studio at 9th Avenue and West 55th Street, and then to its present home (since 1993) at Kaufman Astoria Studios in my neighborhood, Astoria!

I always knew Astoria looked like Sesame Street. Turns out I was right!
(See "Sunny Day! Chasing the clouds away!" 6/9/2004)