Monday, March 16, 2026

Photo of the Day: Horace Greeley Monument, City Hall Park, NYC

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I’m not sure what I expected as I walked briskly through City Hall Park one afternoon last week, but it wasn’t this monument to an influent...

Movie Quote of the Day (‘Tootsie,’ on Being a ‘Cult Failure’)

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[ Frustrated actor Michael Dorsey has complained that agent George Fields hasn’t found him any job recently. George pushes back, arguing tha...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Spiritual Quote of the Day (St. Augustine of Hippo, on Injustice and Empire)

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“Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?   What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms? A gang is a gr...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Quote of the Day (Michael Connelly, on the Importance of Writing 15 Minutes a Day)

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“Something I was taught by a professor in a creative writing class, is that if you’re going to be a writer then you’ve got to write every da...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Photo of the Day: TV Series Filming in Sparkill, NY

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I took the picture accompanying this post a couple of days ago, on the first day of location shooting for a Season One episode of the upcomi...

TV Quote of the Day (‘Seinfeld,’ on Appropriate Terms of Admiration)

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[Jerry and Elaine are talking about her new boyfriend, a conductor of a police band who insists on being called “Maestro.”] Jerry Seinfeld ...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Quote of the Day (William James, on the Range of Emotions)

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“There is no limit to the number of possible different emotions which may exist, and why the emotions of different individuals may vary inde...