Month: November 2007
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Two Years Today.
We bought our house two years ago today. It’s kind of astonishing when you think about it. Time is flying by. Just 5 more years before our adjustable mortgage kicks in! Our oil guy came to do the tune up of the boiler, and was amazed at the progress (he wasn’t here last year, and…
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In which the Pope drops in for a visit
Okay, so I don’t know if he’s going to come to OUR house. After all, I just directed a kind of anti-pope play written by his arch-nemesis (Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo) (Well, it’s not anti-pope exactly. It just doesn’t treat the pope very nicely, and makes several jokes at his expense. It’s nothing like…
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Yonkers in the Public Radio
Today, as Stephanie was going to the city to hang out with her parents, and I was at home preparing for a clown gig at the Yonkers Public Library (part of the Andrus Yonkers’ Children’s Day), stephanie calls me, and says “NPR. 820. Listen now.” and hung up the phone. I scrambled to turn the…
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The bathroom, she is tiled
I think that in all the goings on here with lawnmowing and dario fo plays and what not, I may have forgotten to mention the most important news of all– our master bath is tiled! We started on the master bath in August, and it didn’t get finished until October, but my god– all the…
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Cutting the lawn makes you more neighborly
I had to cut the lawn the other day. After my lawnmower debacle incident in August, I hadn’t cut the lawn at all. The weeds were getting high, the lawn was looking raggedy, and I got a notice from the Yonkers City Hall that I needed to cut my lawn! Apparently, they can fine you…
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Photos of the Clown as a Not So Young Man
I sat for a portrait with Bill Wadman, a photographer working on a 365 day project. Each day he takes a portrait of a different person, and posts it. It might be a book or a calendar, or a something one day. I’m 11/02. He’s been doing this project for a whole year. His photos…
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Saving the Yonkers Waterfront
A group of concerned citizen’s are gathering together to help save the Yonkers Waterfront. With all the talk of investment in Yonkers, little is mentioned at whose expense the building will come from (and who will truly profit) Of course there is a little bit of NIMBY going on here– everyone wants development, but nobody…