Inaugural Address of Mayor Bill de Blasio: “Progress for New York” January 1, 2014 Editorial notes: 1. Finally, out of the politics of despair and retrenchment, a new leader has emerged from the Democratic party unafraid to express the values in which I believe. In this, Bill de Blasio’s inaugural address, he states: “Fiorello […]
Joel Solkoff
REGINALD ON CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Excerpt: “Personally, I can’t see where the difficulty in choosing suitable presents lies. No boy who had brought himself up properly could fail to appreciate one of those decorative bottles of liqueurs that are so reverently staged in Morel’s window…. People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced […]
NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS. Miley Cyrus “Can’t Be Tamed”, plus sign language video “I kissed a girl and liked it.”
Lyrics For those who don’t know me, / I can get a bit crazy Have to get my way, yep / 24 hours a day / ’cause I’m hot like that / Every guy, everywhere / just gives me mad attention / Like I’m under inspection I always gets a ten, / ’cause I’m built like that / I go through guys […]
“Television is a vast wasteland “applied to current efforts to limit Internet access; Woody Allen makes a guest appearance
In 1961 the FCC Chairman, Newton Minnow, gave a scathing speech at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention calling television “a vast wasteland.” Last week, in the tradition of Newton Minnow’s “television is a vast wasteland” speech, the new and exciting Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler delivered his visionary plan to ensure access […]
Alan Jackson’s startlingly effective video tribute to the victims of The World Trade Center Tragedy
The year the World Trade Center was bombed in New York, Alan Jackson won the Country Music Award for his song about the tragedy. ++++ Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning? Before going to the entire lyrics, I was particularly struck by this small but startlingly effective selection: I’m just a singer of simple […]
December motto plus optional isolation
Dr. Jeniffer Simon, a caring and experienced urologist, Geissinger Medical Center, State College PA showed me on her computer this image–a cancerous tumor surrounding my right kidney, referring me to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. “Unless you have surgery quickly, you will be dead in 10 years.” The date: April 5, 2013, […]
Preparing for Guatemalia Bar Mitzvah, Simon Kreindler lived with my mother and me in 1952
Editor’s note: When I was 6, my mother Miriam invited 12-year-old Simon Kreindler to live with us at the request of his father. The year was 1952 when Simon arrived at our small apartment in Miami Beach, Florida after flying from his home in Barbados While Simon lived with us, my mother helped prepare him for […]
My first cancer survival at age 28
I have been describing my third cancer experience at age 65 when I was diagnosed in April in State College PA and had a successful operation in August in New York City at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.. This is an account of my first cancer survival at age 28. How did I survive cancer three times? How was I able to father two daughters after massive radiation treatment? Why was cancer treatment responsible for my becoming a paraplegic?
What was my emotional state during these three experiences which otherwise might have forced me to concentrate on death rather than enjoying life?
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Answers may be difficult to provide, but what follows is my first attempt to use language for the ineffable.
Two years after my experience with Hodgkin’s disease, my publication on the subject in The New York Times, my appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, I received a book contract and proceeded to interview formally (receiving signed releases) and on tape the accounts of….