quo vadis?

  • Phil Mathews's corner of the globe
    Phil, one of my most long-lived and dearest of friends is a quiet, wise man of many strengths. His one fault, and possibly his only one, was moving 22 years ago from the confines of Brookline, when we lived a brisk ten minute walk from one another, to a front-runner for ur-suburb of Boston, Milton, Massachusetts. But it seemed to be a move that took, both for the man and the town. Phil is not only an astute observer of the local scene, which, as "Tip" O'Neill knew, is where politics, if not all global phenonmena, begin. He has become a vital part of the way the town he has come to love is run. I can only hope Milton always deserves what it has in him.
  • Bill Ives | KM : Food & Music
    What do knowledge management: theory and practice, and food and music have to do with one another? In the person of my friend Bill Ives, nationally renowned lecturer and consultant on all matters knowledge managerial and blogotherial—everything. During the week, his blog, "Portals & KM" is devoted to matters of interest to professionals and serious amateurs. On the weekend, Bill digs into his favorite subjects: Food and Music, and about which he is equally interesting and yet characteristically modest.
  • identity theory | Birnbaum : The Narrative Thread
    You may think Robert Birnbaum spreads himself too thin. But there's a lot of him to spread. I speak, of course, literarily and culturally: I'll withhold judgment on the intellectual, until he shows a little more serious intent with the copy editing. More of what we love Robert for—never shutting up. This is the other current major repository of the national cultural treasure of his 20+ years worth of conversations with noteworthy authors. James Lipton has nothing on Robert—and Robert is younger, cuter, and available.
  • The Morning News / Birnbaum conversations
    This will pay big dividends. Literati will be enthralled. Izzy will feel even more important (and more significantly will get that frisson he so seldom gets, as when he's accorded respect) because someone paid attention. But most importantly, this will help keep Izzy off my back, and make him continue to owe me big time.

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I am a fountain pen.

Biography

My sister was an only child. I put a stop to that. However, the situation never improved. I lived in the Bronx. What I did in Providence RI starting from age ten constituted some other state of being until I could leave, at age 17. I have never really been back. Today, a rabbi lives in our old house. Enough said.

I was educated, but this has always been a poor defense. Of the several schools I attended for higher education, which I think is a reference to when I started using marijuana as a recreational drug, I remember Bryn Mawr most fondly. I esteem it higher than either of the other institutions in which I was enrolled, which I will not name, and that includes Boston University and Harvard University.

I worked my entire life as someone of adult stature (I attained my present height at age 17), first to afford music recordings and then recreational drugs and finally, and for a prolonged period, as a living. I did OK. Not great.

I like words a lot. I use them a lot, and as often as I can.

I love my wife beyond my capacity to describe.

I expect everyone who gets this far reading this to do everything in their capacity to the limits of the time they can allow to make me famous.

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What? There's something else? This isn't all about me?