Browsing Archive: March, 2009

What's funny?

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Monday, March 16, 2009,

In a depression such as this, laughter is hard to come by. There are a great many topics that are tabu while people are waiting for financial recovery or at the least, a few signs of stability. I hear no Geithner jokes or Bernanke jokes. Even Madoff, who 'made off' with so many people's life savings, has been mostly exempted from skewering by the comics.

Those of us who are all right for the time being, and I include myself on my teachers pension, are meeting at social gatherings and not t...

If only I could figure out how to fix the typos...

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Thursday, March 12, 2009,

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Dreaming

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Thursday, March 12, 2009,

" A salesman's got to dream. It comes with the territory."

Arthur Miller in Death of a Salesman

I wasn't lyin' I was dreamin'

Richard Nash in The Rainmaker

"A dream is a wish your heart makes"

Jiminy Cricket in Pinnochio

I think, by nature, the creative individual has to be a dreamer. As a child, I was captivated with the Wizard of Oz series by Frank l. Baum. The books, which he wrote beneath the spires of the Hotel Del Coronado, came out each year just before Chrismas. They were the gi...

It's a beginning

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Sunday, March 8, 2009,

This trial and error bit of work has been exciting to produce. For a guy who grew up before television this is quite an achievement. Yep that's right, I said before television. I was ten years old before the first 12" black and white TV appeared on our block. Sunday night's we used to go over to my aunt Hilda's place and " watch the radio." I guess I can't think of myself as a luddite anymore even though I haven't got a cell phone or a blackberry. I can compute!!!

Last night I went to the ...