Cross Town Thoughts
GOOD
Sold 20-year Western Massachusetts home
New apartment in The City
Side Trek . NYC
BAD
Petulant Adolescent President- elect
Lumping people into monolithic groups
Elite media bubble & bias
Election’s coarse discourse
TTSD – Traumatic Trump Stress Disorder
Two flawed presidential candidates. Commander-in-Chief forum on the Intrepid. Should be Trepidation. Stranger Things? That’s a crazy Netflix show. 80’s spoofy scary comedy. Okay. Better than the election.
Over in Flushing Meadows. Is there any more boring U.S. Open ever? Lame. Literally. Defaults. Walkovers. Johnny Mac is apoplectic. So are we. Pouille.
Go Garoppolo! No.
The Family Trump is descending on Ohio. From Tiffany to Ivanka. Melania. Other blonde wives. Pulchritude meets frumpitude. You won’t see Mrs. Pence. Nor much of Mike after tonight. But, there will be Chachi. Happy Days! Dante/Jagger soap star, too. B- and C -listers galore. Make America Mediocre Again!
Across the pond. Just down the lane from Trump’s Turnberry Course in Scotland, Swede Stenson bested Phippy in an epic mano a mano match to take the Open. Staying cool.
Muhammed Ali. Floats like a butterfly. Stings like a bee. Captured an era in a unique way. Always remember his fights. Frazier – Ali MSG. March 8 1971. Thrilla in Manilla. Howard Cosell made him a household name. Back in the day. After Cassius Clay. Graceful. Courageous. Playful. Controversial. Witty. Gorgeous. Athlete. Human being.
Megyn Kelly will get another shot at Trump. His reaction to her barbs got him in trouble. Misogynist. So. He called Christie fat. Rubio sweaty and short. Jebra low energy. Fiorina’s face. Hillary’s voice. All targets. Equal opportunity insulter. That’s who he is. Is that okay? No. But, we know what we are getting. Now Rubio and Romney have sunk to his level. Name-calling. Schoolyard banter. A new standard for political discourse?
On The Donald’s Blue Monster at Doral, youngsters will also play today. McIlroy. Spieth. Day. Oy. Vey.
Starbucks on every corner.
Adam Driver disintegrates Hannah. Solo.
Trump-Palin v. Hillary-Warren.
MadMen returns. Season 8.
Manhattan view.
Great new novels. City on Fire not yet.
SuperBowl. Anybody but the Pats.
Freshest fish.
Little Blue Corvette. Wish I’d kept my 1963 baby blue split-window fast-back Stingray with the Hurst stick shift. The one Seinfeld and Obama had coffee and comedy in. Would’ve been a lucrative bet.
Foxbots ditch décolletage for bikinis on the anchor couch.
Donald Trump gilds early voting State Houses.
Marco Rubio sweat slides him into oblivion.
Hillary feels the Bern and goes home.
Bills Cosby and Clinton join Junior League.
Brady and Belichick get married.
Cam Newton dances at their wedding.
Tiger caddies for Jordan Spieth at the Masters.
Ray Donovan has an affair with Helen and Alison.
Real Housewives open boutiques all over the Middle East…
drive ISIS out running and screaming.
GOOD
MadMen ending. The real thing.
The Affair. Ray Donovan.
Pope Francis charms the U.S.
New York weekends. Ocean Grill. Mermaid Inn.
Forked around Long Island twice. 
Ogilvy Account Director mAdBen. Seattle star.
BAD
End of MadMen.
Emojis. Symbols that replace words.
ISIS thugs. Paris. U.S. World. Under Siege.
Guns. Guns. Guns,
Political conversation this Thanksgiving a first. Family rarely let it all hang out. For many reasons. But, 2015 has given birth to new voices. Apolitical siblings are all Trump. Independent-minded moderates can’t find a Republican they like. Rubio a rube. Ted snarly. Bush lite. The usual moon bats prefer Bernie and don’t like Hillary much, but Supreme Court appointees brought everyone together. Bottom line. Hillary may pull it off.
Watched Amy Schumer’s Train Wreck. Hader and Swinton were great. Otherwise. Okay.
In Sports news. Joey3Sticks picks Denver over New England. Yes. You heard it here. Injuries over talent. But, hey. AFC. They are all girls anyway. Go Giants!
Okay. Holiday schmaltz is upon us. Snark break. Lauren Bush Lauren aka Lifshitz had a baby. Adele’s new album should have gone the way of Amy Winehouse’s second. Too soon? SNL’s Adele Thanksgiving table banter was familiar and funny. Matthew McConaughey has physical humor chops. AMA show a study in narcissistic indulgence. Except for JLo. She stuns. Homeland too close to home in current terrorist theme if cartoony in personal plotline. The Affair gets better every week. Williams College location scenes. My money is on the jilted daughter. Spoiler alert. 
Pats continue undefeated in a weak division of the flimsy AFC. But, best head coach with a great QB. One of the few who knows clock management. Makes the most of every player. Rex Ryan angry. And. So long SanFran’s Kaepernick. “Foot injury” puts you on IR. Right, Peyton in Denver?
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