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Monthly Archives: October 2011

You Can Go Home Again…Almost

28 Friday Oct 2011

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Thomas Wolfe was wrong.

Finding myself with a free afternoon in San Francisco, where I hadn’t been in three or four decades, I did what anyone in my position would do. I headed to Sam Wo’s restaurant in Chinatown.

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Join Me to Hear Joan Didion

27 Thursday Oct 2011

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Joan Didion, author of A Year of Magical Thinking, among many other writings, will be in DC at the Avalon movie theater talking with NPR’s Susan Stamberg about her new memoir, Blue Nights.*

I have a free ticket for someone to join me to hear Didion and Stamberg, The date is Thursday, November 10 (at 8 PM).

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Frank Rich Adds His Voice

26 Wednesday Oct 2011

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MillersTime readers hopefully know by now that I often post articles or links to articles that I believe advance a debate, help our understanding of what is going on in our country and the world beyond, or pieces that I just think deserve wider circulation.

Today I post Frank Rich’s recent article in New York Magazine. Rich left the NY Times this year because he indicated he wanted more time to think about what he was writing as well as the opportunity to write longer articles.

While the current media and various constituencies are jockeying to put their spin on what is taking place with OWS and the Tea Party, Rich takes a step back and looks at an historical context for what is now occurring, and, in the process, I think, adds good perspective.

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Theo Says Why He Did It? What Do You Think?

26 Wednesday Oct 2011

Posted by Richard in Go Sox

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If you’re a Sox fan, you’ve probably read ex-GM Theo Epstein’s Boston Globe explanation to The Red Sox Nation on why he decided to leave the Sox for the Cubs. (He also took out a full page add in the Globe a few days earlier, thanking Boston fans. To see the add, Click Here).

I am very curious as to what Sox fans’ reaction is to Theo’s farewell explanation

For those of you who are not Sox fans, who hate the Sox, who love another team, I am curious also about your reaction to his column.

I will leave my reaction until after hopefully a number of you will comment in the section below. Do indicate whether your a Sox fan or not, and as always, be civil.

Click Here to read Theo’s piece.

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‘The Worst Congress Money Can Buy’?

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

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For the past 30+ years, ever since my wife Ellen became the Director of Center for Responsive Politics and the good Larry Makinson taught all of us how to follow the money in Congress with his Open Secrets work, I’ve been aware of and followed the role of money in politics.

I thought I pretty much knew the most of it. But this morning I read an article by Thomas Ferguson (The Price of Power: Congressional Leadership Positions for Sale to the Highest Bidder) that even made me wince and included information that Ellen says she didn’t know and Larry never told me.

And so I link to this article for those of you who want to understand just why Congress is and will continue to be so responsive to those who fund their campaigns.

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(Note: The article linked to above was first posted at The Washington Spectator.)

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An Open Invitation to MillersTime Readers

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

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You may have seen over the past year or two that every so often there has been a posting from someone other than moi.

I wanted to make it known to everyone that I am open to posting ‘articles’ from all of you. More than open, I encourage folks to consider writing for MillersTime. You can review movies, books, plays, restaurants, comment on political and social happenings, push an idea, ask or answer a question, describe an interest, write about a trip, a hobby or even something about baseball.  You can also send pictures or brag about someone in your family.

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Five Places to Eat, In & Around DC

17 Monday Oct 2011

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Only one or two of the following restaurants are one ones that have gotten much notice. Three are in DC, and the other two are close by, one in the Maryland suburbs, and one in Virginia.

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‘The Habit of Art’

17 Monday Oct 2011

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Being deprived of Broadway theater because of my favorite younger daughter’s move from the NYC to Miami (previously discussed Here) and because I felt i needed to repair my tarnished reputation with my wife for the Chinese ‘Debacle’ (also discussed earlier), I took my good friend Mary L’s advice that the only DC theater currently worth attending was Alan Bennett”s The Habit of Art **** at the Studio Theatre.

Ah, thank you Mary.

At last, a Studio Theatre presentation that I could both understand and recommend to others.

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Occupy Wall Street: What Is It?

14 Friday Oct 2011

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Early morning checking of the news (via Twitter) brings word that the owners of the square being occupied in NY (how does someone/a business own a square in NYC?) have asked the city not to clear the demonstrators. And so an impending confrontation seems averted for the moment.

But a larger question: What is Occupy Wall Street really?

Is it just a bunch of middle and upper middle class folks out protesting?

And is it even clear what they are protesting?

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Four Films: Something for Everyone

13 Thursday Oct 2011

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I’ve seen four films over the last couple of weeks, all quite different, and all worthy of your attention.

(Note that I rate the films from one to five stars – */***** – and also at the end of each mini review, I am now adding the ratings from both individuals and the critics from Rotten Tomatoes. Also, I try to avoid any ‘spoilers’ when writing about the films.)

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More Results from 2011 MillersTime Baseball Contests

11 Tuesday Oct 2011

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Needed: at least eight folks to vote for the winner of Contest #1 – The Best Prediction for the 2011 Season. See Below for details.

 

But first, some other results:

I. The wisdom of the ‘masses’ (aka ‘MillersTime Baseball Wizards’) was anything but…

Of the three top predictions made by the 44 contestants, only one came true. And that one was only partially true.

Not True: Phillies and Red Sox in the World Series

Not True: Sox will beat the Phillies in the WS.

Partially True: Nationals will improve this year to a season record of 71-91. They actually ended with a record of 80-81.

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Two Terrific Reads

10 Monday Oct 2011

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My two most recently enjoyed ‘reads’* are Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larson.

Last year, Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, seemed to be the book most often mentioned by readers of MillersTime.  For 2011, Unbroken seems to be the leading contender for the book most enjoyed.

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Not Such a Good Idea After All…

09 Sunday Oct 2011

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It seemed like a good idea…at the time.

A play about a 100 year old Peking Duck restaurant, an award winning, long running, and frequently revived play about the ups and downs of this restaurant, its owners, the issues of inheritance, management, the human condition, Chinese culture, cuisine, etc.

Performed by the Beijing People’s Art Theatre, an award winning national theater company of China established in the 1950s.

And the production was to be in Washington, at the Kennedy Center, for only three performances.

So of course I rushed to get tickets, congratulating myself on finding a way to secure two tickets even before they went on sale publicly. I was sure that my wife Ellen would enjoy it and be impressed at my being au courant.

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