Cross Town Thoughts
Trick of the eye. Chicanery. Snake oil anyone? His followers rally. Media and Republicans dally. Hillary is the only one who can reveal this Trump l’œil. Will she?
House of Cards 4. Frank Underwood. Makes Trump look like a saint. Or. Maybe not. Nancy Reagan could have given Claire a run for her money. Will fiction become fact?
It’s the Cubano Dos and El Trumpo now. Rubio. Cruz. The Cuban crusts. Tricky Ted’s dirty tactics and Nixonian sneer harken back to the Bebe Rebozo corruption days. Marco el Rubio, not really. He’s not blond. But, as his SuperPac says, he is like Harry Potter to Donald’s Voldemort. Well. Sort of. Young and impressionable yes. NeoCons’ new rube.
Then there’s all those slices of ham in the middle. With lots of cheesey drippings. Spicy sauce. And most of the votes.
House of Cards script could not compete with last night’s political theatrics. The Trump Jet rolls onto the Des Moines tarmac with media frenzy and flashing bulbs. Long lines queue up around a small auditorium to await his arrival. Adele’s hits blaring through the hall. Across town, Cruz and Rubio snark at each other and Chris Wallace. Megyn Kelly holds court with a montage of each frontrunner’s flip flopping clips. A brutal hit job on both. Dulce Candy affords Jeb sweet revenge. But, too little too late?
Donald hugs it out with Huckabee and Santorum who won Iowa in past caucuses. Should he have gone to the debate? Of course not. It was his Frank Underwood (F.U.) moment. Could this get anymore fun? Bon weekend.
There has been an explosion of steel scaling sides of buildings all over New York City. Restaurants. Hotels. Residential buildings. These metal webs remain installed not for months but for years. It’s a new era of blight causing claustrophobic tunnels shrouding sidewalks from the sun and blocking New York’s historical architectural beauty.
Just found out that one of our favorite Upper West Side seafood restaurants Ocean Grill has closed. Entrance-obstructing scaffolding has left former sidewalk diners and customers at bay since 2012.
What the hell?
About time you listened to me, Mayor Mike! I’ve been after you since June. We need your successful track record in both the public and private sectors to fix this mess!!! Bernie too left. Ted too right. Donald too Trump. Run Mike Run.
He’s done it. El Trumpo made himself the sane choice of the old Republican guard. He has replaced their view of him as the sideshow huckster with a scarier Carnival Cruz. The fringe right are out to dump the Trump which just confirms him as the more mainstream choice. If Mike Bloomberg doesn’t join the fray, at the end of the day it’ll be Donald J. Despite the fact that Sarah Palin is now in play. Predict cold open on SNL this weekend will feature Darrell Hammond and Tina Fey. Oy vey. Blame John McCain!
Full moon and just south a blizzard blows. Carolina v. Pats in the SuperBowl. Safe weekend.
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.
It’s no secret. I have a lot to say. Back Roads Thoughts on water, guns, Wall Street, politics, ISIS, gender. Sometimes the New York Times likes my comments on its articles and columns. Here are the ones they picked this year:
Michael Buckley. Damming Tibet’s Rivers. 3/30/15
David Brooks. Rubio-Fiorina Option. 9/18/15
Frank Bruni. Hillary Clinton’s Debate Magic. 10/13/15
Frank Bruni. Scary Ted Cruz. 10/21/15
Roger Cohen. To Save Paris, Defeat ISIS. 11/14/21
Frank Bruni. War on ISIS. 11/21/15
News Story. 14 Dead in Mass Shooting. San Bernardino. 12/3/15
Op-Ed by Hillary Clinton. Reining in Wall Street. 12/7/15
Politics. Moms & Daughters Debate Gender Issue. 12/13/15
SAGs. Golden Globes. Oscars. ‘Tis the Season for Depressing Gay Abused Stories Glorified. Children in Pain. No wonder Star Wars is so anticipated. El Trumpo? No. Trumbo. Haven’t watched Fargo, lots of noms. Winter binge idea. Ray only one? The Affair, too. These awards are lame. The Big Short is Carol’s game.
MadMen!? Seriously.
Side Trek . NYC 