Wednesday, October 25, 2017

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New Yorker article on Mike Pence. Very well written and documented---one thing that I learned that I did not know was how Pence was responsible for bringing in so many Christian Evangelical voters to the Trump ticket.Why oh why did the democrats choose such an uninteresting Vice Presidential candidate---when a firebrand---a good contrast with Hilary_--might have made the difference.  Nothing more to be said.
   Second day off from Friends---will be there for the next three days---there is a kind of freedom and relaxation in my body that I have not experienced before. I think it is just the openness of the morning. Tonight, just bought my ticket to Kipp Talk at Jack---I mentioned this in yesterday's blog---now it is a certainty---should be an interesting evening.
  Last night, had some time in the evening, and so went to the Dive Bar, the one I frequent on 95th and Amsterdam. About the only bar on the upper west side that I feel comfortable in at this point---as usual, around 8 a large crowd present, lucky to find space at the bar. My two friends, the bartender and waitress were present, but with the large crowd, there was very little chance to have conversation.
Mostly I watched the Knick game (not very interesting as the Knicks were constantly behind)  and a little bit of World Series game 1 (not really very interested at this point) and had a conversation with the gentleman sitting next to me---a legal aid lawyer in his sixties who is pro the Mayor. We shared some ideas, and I explained to him the anger that neighborhood groups feel towards the Mayor's  policies. He accepted this, and acknowledged that this was a problem. A decent conversation, not anything to really fire me up---had the barbecue wings, which filled me up. Around 9:15, felt that it was time to leave---would have stayed if any more conversation was possible---and just went home. Not really tired, but surprisingly enough, had no trouble falling asleep.
   Lots of plays out there that interest me---not sure how many I can see---time seems so compressed at this point, and I don't really want to give up my Sundays---a time when I like to just move around the city---to the plays. But what can I do?
  Two more days at Friends--really looking forward to them---will report, probably on Saturday.

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