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For the better vs the worst

What would you change about modern society?

Life without fascism, hatred, and bigotry would be a refreshing change, wouldn’t it?

I saw interviews with Americans who seemed not at all phased by losing the Constitution.

They would prefer a world with bigotry, hatred, and authoritarian rule.

Different strokes, doesn’t begin to cover it. No accounting, not even close.

I would like to keep the door open for everyone’s thinking. But I cannot. Stupid. Deplorable. Are the only adjectives that describe this MAGA bullsh*t. Shredding the Constitution, I heard the man say, was okay with him. Really.

MAGA represents only ⅓ of the American population.

⅓ of us are willing to shred the Constitution. That, I must point out, is the minority. The pivot to the right is dire but not fatal.

Self congratulations

What do you do to be involved in the community?

Do you really believe in a humble brag? Really?

I love that it’s for “yard waste.” I mean, here in New York City

When my friend J told me she was placing all her “live food” [her vivid description] in one of these bins, I issued a grump. She, btw, was not bragging.

On her podcast activist-actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus had been acclaiming the merits of a home food compactor for a while.

Another grump from me. Too much earth-friendly virtue, I grumbled.

The compost pails are law in NYC now. They put up big centralized bins on the corners a few months ago.

Next, they required your landlord to make these accessible for us all.

You can hear my complaint over this new task as I carry my bag up the block.

Just a humble brag.

There are moments

When are you most happy?

Like these:

We favor a Mexican place, but each of my friends and I tend to gravitate towards one or a few specific restaurants.

Speaking of lunch with a friend

Let me expand on this particular Mexican restaurant.

They deconstruct a delicious street food and serve it in a paper coffee cup. This touch kind of preserves the feel of a «off a food truck« delicacy when you dig in on the mix of flavors. The corn has been de-cobbed, as it were, for ease of eating. Aka, it’s not as sloppy a dish at table as when you walk through a street-fair.

We both really enjoy this menu choice at Tacombi. 

There’s an industrial feel to the location (ours is on the UES), and I see from their website that they favor this look. Other Tacombis have converted garages into dining rooms. It’s a style. I love it.

Is Forrest Gump just looking for El Dorado?

What’s something you believe everyone should know.

We’ve seen Candide at least a couple of times. If by “seen,” you count the back rows of the Theatre, which is still occupied by Wicked for these dozen plus years. The stage is away aways from the topt’o the house there.

We saw Grand Hotel with Cyd Charisse uptop, too. Even from that height, she had spectacular legs.

I digress a bit, but yes, everyone should be aware of Ms. Charisse’s beauty in her Bway debut at age 70 and the steep incline that defines the Gershwin Theatre’s  seating capacity.

Candide was led by Jim Dale and a newly minted Jason Daniely and featured Arte Johnson. Its music is by Leonard Bernstein with some additional Sondheim songs.

Like Forrest, Candide falls into a series of adventures [well mis- adventures].

His naïveté, [well their naïveté] creates the disconnect between how unsettling things are and their happy-go-lucky reactions.

“The best of all possible worlds” offers many upsets to the hero [well heroes] of these picaresques

In Gump’s best world, “life is like a box of chocolates.”

Two views, two famous lines. Two innocents abroad.

Leisure time

What is your favorite hobby or pastime?

Pasttimes are crucial to keeping us involved. Hobbies often augment and eventually replace work in our lives.

Leisure activities become the “what we do” when we retire from our jobs.

For some of us, the bowling league runs parallel to our paycheck activity. It might be karaoke Tuesday that makes your week even while you’re still going to a 9-to-5.

Some of us are serious about physical endeavors, like preparing for a marathon or biking new trails.

I enjoy my classes at the gym alongside long chats with friends over lunch or coffee. Or just like that- even if we communicate by that new-fangled texting thing.

I consider writing my actual occupation now. I feel as if this is what I have grown into and prepared for in all my years past.

I have landed on a true pasttime to pass my time.

Greetings

Describe your life in an alternate universe.

I never noticed this before, but we oldies nod and smile as we pass on the street.

I was going to blame my lack of attention to this being a new phenomenon or to me being new to oldness.

Truly doubt either proposition.

It is kind of nice, a recognition of our cohort in a population of carriages or bikes.

Too much? Nah!

What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?

Back in the day, a splurge was a splurge for us. Obviously, for us, this wasn’t a regular occurrence.

We ate out regularly, but our meals, while indulgent, were not usually expensive.

We had bargain lunches at one of Jean Georges’ restaurants on Fridays.

The over-the-top meals we had were for birthdays or Thxgiving. We went to one of Daniel’s many fabulous eateries a few times.

Dinner with J-G or Daniel always came with a high-ticket cost. Was it worth it?, you asked.

In a few words: Yes, for the memories.