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More “Duck-Duck” News

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Here is more news about what when down in Chinatown this past Saturday night. This one is from the New York Daily News: Chinatown barrage stumps cops By MICHELE McPHEE and ALICE McQUILLAN DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU Officer with the NYPD’s crime scene unit stands amid 45 shell casings marked at the scene of a […]

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Our "duck" in Chinatown

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Jessie, her parents, two friends of the family (Wanda and Norm) and I went out to dinner in Chinatown last night. The idea was to check out some restaurants to see which would qualify as the place for our pre-wedding dinner. Jessie and I want to do something uniquely New York for the dinner and […]

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More Word Play

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My friend Michele knows how much I love vocabulary and sent me the list below: a. Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. b. A backward poet writes inverse. c. A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. d. Dijon vu – the same mustard as before. e. […]

politics

What is the EPA doing these days?

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Quote of the week: “It is a sad day in America when a coalition of states must go to federal court to defend the Clean Air Act against the misguided actions of the federal agency created to protect the environment,” the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, said. “But in this matter, the E.P.A. is […]

meeting ramblings

Being Present

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The importance of being present is beyond belief for life is brief and a day can be spent so easily. Is it possible to be present with so much going on at once? The juggling of tasks, of events, of moments, of movements is an arduous undertaking. Can the every day be elevated higher so […]

literature

Books versus Movies

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My fiance sits on the couch finishing Return of the King as I sit typing at the computer. Having just come from Stephen King’s web site, having just watched a number of DT inspired short films and having made plans to watch The Two Towers on DVD tonight, I feel the need to reaffirm why […]