Weekend Open Thread:
Federal Reserve
Last Week at Portico: This week was crazy. I never even found the time to write up a Morning Read — that’s a first (and, I hope, a last). I still owe a few words on Salman Rushdie’s New Yorker story. And that’s just for here! For Portico, I managed to put up a few words on the gruesomely funny Julia, starring Tilda Swinton, cram recollections of three completely different musical events (Denk/Perlman/Graham) onto one page, and — I can’t really believe it — the Book Review review.
Lunch was great fun. I just wrote to a friend in Liverpool about Chinatown Brasserie as he and his partner are enamored of Chinese food and always looking for new places to eat. And Shun Lee West is showing its age, at least in its Cafe where the dim sum is served.
I have spent this dull and gray morning going through my big box of “stuff,” prompted by a growing pile of receipts and other things not put away in their usually orderly fashion. Once they were attended to and arranged in the accordion file that sits on the top of the “big” box, I tackled it.
The big box had not been attended to for quite awhile as I found, and threw out a ton of dated material from a variety of sources….I was amazed how much lighter the box felt when I put it back. The desk is next……. this is what dull and dreary days are for but first Quatorze and I will do some errands ahead of the promised rain for the afternoon, evening and tomorrow morning…NYC : where is it always raining.
Rainy here in the south, too, but we need it after two years of drought. So, when you tire of rain in NYC, please shoo it our way and we’ll welcome it with open arms. Re: Susan Graham and Ned Rorem: Graham is one of my favorite singers and her recording of Rorem’s songs is one that I listen to frequently. My particular favorite is ‘Early in the Morning.’
That is cheating…using a picture of a medical building on Fifth avenue, and way north, to represent a structure almost down at Manhattan’s southern tip. I do applaud the substitution however as you have captured the architectural spirit of the Federal Reserve building while giving exposure to a structure few notice otherwise.