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Soul Man

He’s a soul man. Yeah. Sexy-generian soul mate. Happy Birthday Dr.Husband!

B&B for wayward cold souls. Lucky and grateful to be warm. October’s heavy snow on leafy limbs. Trees down in Western Massachusetts hitting houses, power lines. Many homes won’t get lights, heat back for a week. Old Oak being hauled off in chunks. Squirrels squabbling over remaining acorns. It’s the best birthday gift to have power and be able to watch Morning Joe.

Check out Review- “The Stranger’s Child”, by Alan Hollinghurst- Books page.

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Trik Too Far

Witch got her wish. Halloween buried under debris and snow. Trick’s on her. Laden tree limbs split and crashed all Saturday night. A huge one landed on roof. Sounded like a war zone out there. No power until late today. Be careful what you wish for, Skippy Hallow. Curbing curses to exclude old Oak trees.

Hot shower, heat. Now, that’s a treat. Happy Hallow! 

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Grumpkin

Yup, it’s that time of year again. Skippy Hallow 2. Still hate Halloween. Can’t get enough of television hosts tarting up in pretend-brity costumes. Even more fun is flashbacks of their silly dressing in drag of years past. News? Shmews.

The tacky tradition started in Scotland with ‘guising’, kids disguising themselves on All Hallow’s Eve so evil spirits wouldn’t recognize them. Here’s the 411. They know who you are. As a witch, I predict this year, Grumpkin Goop. SnowySquashySoup.

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Witch Twitch

27,000 plus twitches on The Side Trek. There’s a new book about the Witch of Northampton, and it’s not me. “My Enemy’s Tears” is the story of Mary Bliss Parsons who was tried for witchcraft in 1675. Jagged cranky women are in again.

With the exception of witchy bitches on Fox. Is that all they got? False eyelashes, pancake makeup, Barbie dollbots. Bracing for more October snow. Siri didn’t tell Dr.H to get his winter tires soon enough. Boo!

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iScared

Dr.Husband got the new iPhone 4S. Little did I know that it’d produce a rival. He’s cheating on me with Siri. It was bad enough when I heard him talking to her on the porch, but when he started posing kinky questions, I became alarmed. He bought her a ‘skin’. It may have to come down to Siri or me. She may win.

Serves me right. I’ve become addicted to a new reality soap, the dueling doctors of Michael Jackson.  Also, A-Man gave me a good idea for a new book concept. Needed distractions from impending Halloween horrors. Snow Friday??!!

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Couch Hunters

Cough, cough. Sniff, sniff. Couch Hunters’ International weekend. Why would you move half way around the world for a bathroom with two sinks and a walk-in closet? Just asking. I mean some of these house hunters’ condos in exotic locales could be in Kansas. Telephoto lens slice of the sea. Clogged head speaking.

Margin Call, newly released movie on-demand. Yay. It was reminiscent of my banking days past crises with added fluff, but fun. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons. Worth a watch. Hillary’s flipped out on all the Sunday shows. Is there a country McCain wouldn’t invade and occupy? Sniff. K9Queen celebrated bday in Hawaii.

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Hudson’s Edge

  Windswept Hudson River’s Edge. Clinton, Hudson Yards, Hell’s Kitchen Trek. Circle Line, cruise ships, helicopters launch. Busses, carriages, trains sleep. Back stage bustle to Manhattan’s main show. Photo by B.L. His view.

Ink48 Hotel has huge windows to see city and Ogilvy on 11th Avenue. Trendy crowds, too loud. 10th Avenue’s freeze is thawing with some cozy boites. 44X is a Hell’s Kitchen oasis. Behind the scenes people, sophisticated palates. Clear cross-town on 1st Avenue good morning fare and fond friends at Cafe Luka. Back home, the only team I can’t root for against New England? Dallas.

TrekBooks review- Rules of Civility.

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PH-D

Thomas Sargent, NYU, was just named one of 2011’s  Nobel Prize Winners in Economics. Sargent was among the judges who deemed Ben’s Econ Thesis worthy of winning NYU’s highest honor, the Borgman-Phi Beta Kappa prize for outstanding undergraduate thesis:  ‘Functional Data Analysis of Economic Bubbles: Creating a Coherent Shape of Inflationary Phenomena’.

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Falliage

Green to brown to down. Leaves muted if color at all this season. Vibrantly glorious weather for Columbus holiday weekend though. No complaints. Lobster rolls al fresco, picnic tables packed. Autumn’s last stand. Side trek time.

 William Cullen Bryant homestead up route 112 North, in Cummington. An architectural menagerie of Dutch, Arts & Crafts, it was his contemplative outpost for pastoral poetry and Thanatopsis thought.

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