Bush, Blair, Murdoch, & The Prisoner's Dilemma

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Sunday June 19, 2005 · 1:22 PM PDT

2005/06/19 · 13:22

My last coaching gig was a middle school basketball team in NYC. The school was downtown Manhattan & happened to be the school closest to "Ground Zero," These were the kids that actually had to run for their lives on 9/11. They weren't such great ballers, but they were good kids, worked hard, & got better. They ended the season on an up note, winning their last game. I took them out for pizza & I wondered what I would say to them since I knew I probably wouldn't see many of them again & well, I loved them. Now, while they weren't that great at hoops, they all had talent when it came to getting in trouble. I decided to talk to them about the "Prisoner's Dilemma." Read More

Nuclear Option Between Friends

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Sunday June 12, 2005 · 8:34 PM PDT

2005/06/12 · 20:34

My name's Joe. I live in downtown Manhattan. I'm an artist.
After 9/11, which I witnessed firsthand, I did a lot of drawings & paintings of the wreckage (it was only a couple blocks away). I remember when I would show them to people, how many would say, "These pictures make me want to kill the m-fers all the more." That was the first sign to me that there was going to be a big problem, not 9/11, but the country's response.

I put some of the art in a show & a TV station did interviews with some of the artists. Everyone said how terrible it was, & how nice everyone was to each other, working together like never before etc. When it was my turn to speak, I said I was worried about what the country was going to do with its' anger, that I was afraid we would do something that would cause us to lose the support & respect of the world. I remember the interviewers face going pale. This wasn't what she wanted to hear for sure. When the piece aired, my part was the only one cut out. Read More

My Friend Ali

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Monday May 16, 2005 · 5:01 PM PDT

2005/05/16 · 17:01

A couple months ago, out of the blue, I got a phone call from an old friend, Ali Jabarzadeh.
Ali was calling from Iran and he is a fellow artist, one of the finest painters I've ever known. He was one of the first people I met when I came to NYC to attend the grad painting program at Queens College In 1976.
He was a small ,wiry, young man, with incredible energy & passion for painting, & we became great friends.
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Saul Bellow, Allan Bloom, & "Ravelstein"

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Wednesday April 06, 2005 · 11:09 PM PDT

2005/04/06 · 23:09

Saul Bellow died yesterday. Some people say he was, along with William Faulkner, one of the greatest american writers of the 20th century. I'll leave that to others more qualified than me to argue. What I want to talk about here is the last book he wrote, "Ravelstein."
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