Obits

 I have started to read obits. The best part of the NYT. I read not to check who died, at what age, etc. Just to see what they had accomplished and feel bad for myself. Masochism!

Fascinating Rime

 Probably like most people I had read in my youth only several strophes of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Today I ran into it on YouTube and listened half hour to Ian McKellan. Magical. Ensorcelling. Maybe because in the meanwhile I took sailing? and could understand more words? Or just Coleridge...

NYT without NY

I remember years back when I was going out at 8 pm to get the early edition of the Sunday NYTimes. Sometimes there was even a line with people getting agitated when the delivery truck was not showing up.   To survive in the internet era you looked for  subscribers away and abandoned  your home base. You used to be the newspaper of record. No more. Prisoner of the newsroom opinion, you only fake unbiased reporting.  You are just a publisher of games.