I love having the Sunday Times delivered to my home. I look forward to reading the magazine on Saturday afternoons along with the Real Estate section. The Real Estate section is one of my favorite parts because I love reading about Manhattan real estate.
The New York Times got it right yesterday with its first page one editorial in nearly 100 years. Its plea to Congress to pass some sensible gun laws will probably have little effect though. No mass murders over the past number of years have; not even enough for Congress to prohibit anyone on the "no fly" list from buying an assault weapon.
If you're wondering what to give that someone special for the holidays, here's one that just says...I love you (in a wierd kind of way:)
An entire South Dakota ghost town called Swett (puns included), complete with its own watering hole, is on sale for $250,000. The roughly 6-acre town includes a tavern, three-bedroom house and a former tire shop about 100 miles southeast of Rapid City, South Dakota.
This is a shout out for 2 Gotham Committees with which I recently worked: The Gotham Film Festival Committee (Chaired by Steven Skyles-Mulligan plus Cayce Crown, Judy Mauer and Gideon Schein) and the Gotham Green Awards Committee (Co Chaired by Corey Bearak and Josh Zinder plus Group Coordinator Sherry Rivera). Against tense deadline pressure each Committee produced triumphant events which made Gotham proud.
Flo and I were cleaning her mother's house in anticipation of the closing. The house that Flo and her brothers grew up in. The house where her parents spent almost sixty years. There was a lifetime in that house. I was packing the breakfront and I came to the crystal. There was a set of tall water glasses, wine glasses, and both large and small stemmed dessert glasses.
I am a great believer in Gotham.
I am not a believer in one of Gotham's mottos.
I know it is not better to give, than receive. It's exactly the same. Giving. Receiving. The exact same.
As I write this, Cyber Monday is coming to a close. You know, that day meant for fuzzy slippers on your feet, a cup of coffee in one hand and your computer mouse in the other.