September 19, 2017 (Tuesday)

September 18, 2018

This afternoon I’m driving to Cambridge. Will meet W. at [café], then go to a 7p.m. event at Harvard’s Yenching Auditorium to hear Dave Rubin (of The Rubin Report), Bret Weinstein, and some other guy from the sponsoring organization, the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). I never thought I’d have anything to look forward to from anything […]

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September 18, 2017 (Monday)

September 17, 2018

Monday, Monday. For me the days don’t change. Even Sundays are full of work – cooking, cleaning and tidying, cooking cooking cooking again (followed by cleaning up, again). I wonder in what mythical universe, apparently inaccessible to me, people run downstairs and around the corner to pick up something to eat. No, my life is […]

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September 17, 2017 (Sunday)

September 16, 2018

Yesterday we stopped at [café], chatted at length with the owner. We talked about climate – the social climate – in Boston and on the North Shore, and how it is provincial here. He mentioned that he constantly “escapes” to New York City (where he would move in a heartbeat, should the opportunity arise). In […]

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September 16, 2017 (Saturday)

September 15, 2018

I really don’t feel like writing much about anything this morning. It was another night of still, thick air, seemingly immobile. The last two or so days (and nights) have been this way. And yesterday, after poking around on Nextdoor’s R.-Street thread some more, I thought about how I really don’t want to be here, […]

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September 15, 2017 (Friday)

September 14, 2018

The morning is almost foggy – it’s definitely foggy out at sea. At the very top of the sky a few burnished curlicues of cloud edges hover, no movement discernible. Otherwise, all is grayness and still. Last night felt oppressive. Even though we had all the windows open (and consequently all the noise), it felt […]

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September 14, 2017 (Thursday)

September 13, 2018

On Tuesday and yesterday I got myself embroiled on the site Nextdoor about development on R.-Street, and surprisingly was involved in some fine, interesting discussion. Things are happening here for sure – TOD (transit oriented development), “affordable” housing, “luxury” multifamily units (i.e., not just luxury single family homes), and so on. The weather continues warm; […]

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September 13, 2017 (Wednesday)

September 12, 2018

I took myself to T.-café in the afternoon to do some writing, and while I was there, W. texted: “heads up going to nyc 9 26 thru 9 29 both of us.” Best news ever. We booked flights last night; the hotel is in lower Manhattan, in the financial district (Wall Street area). I’ll be […]

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September 12, 2017 (Tuesday)

September 11, 2018

Yesterday morning I walked along the beautiful Lynn Shore Drive, from Swampscott’s big Pier Restaurant to Lynn’s Red Rock Park, around, and back again, and I noticed flags at half-mast. Took me half a second to understand why. Since I don’t have TV, nor listen to the radio much anymore, I’m not as consistently or […]

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September 11, 2017 (Monday)

September 10, 2018

Oh my. Yesterday evening I watched as many clips as were available online (without having cable or a subscription to CBS’s 60 Minutes) of Charlie Rose’s interview with Steve Bannon. Fascinating stuff. After a long period of “literally Rasputin” or “the Devil,” he’s sort of being normalized. I think this is a good thing because […]

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September 10, 2017 (Sunday)

September 9, 2018

I had a dream last night wherein I was getting familiar with a new iPhone I suddenly and inexplicably had in my hands. I was at M.’s birthday party, sitting at a table – or maybe it was a booth. This new phone was weird: almost square, not rectangular, it was also a hell of […]

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