tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post658637722061715992..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "Start Spreading The News..."Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-60394123556038131182012-10-25T01:45:11.281-07:002012-10-25T01:45:11.281-07:00"when they asked if I was prepared to handle ..."when they asked if I was prepared to handle the 'Emergency Exit' duties that our seating location required, I exuberantly replied, 'I can’t wait!'"<br /><br />Pomerantz... top flight joke (pun actually not intended). I laughed out loud with great delight. In fact, so good was this joke, I felt it necessary to fully type "laughed out loud" for you.Dave Arnottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-62127387448171924122012-10-24T22:34:05.733-07:002012-10-24T22:34:05.733-07:00Unfortunately, much of New York has become a theme...Unfortunately, much of New York has become a theme park for the wealthy. The last census showed that Manhattan (which is what we mean when we say New York) is now less ethnically diverse than it was in the last census. Those people got pushed to the outer boroughs or New Jersey.<br /><br />It's still a great walking city, but there are no mom and pop stores anymore. Everything is about the newest restaurant, coffee place, fashion store. All the places look like they're filled with upwardly mobile, nicely dressed overachievers. Even in the East Village, it''s a vibrant restaurant scene. Much of the old Off-Off-Broadway scene is gone, because space is too expensive. Still, there is some theater, some new art being produced, but the street feeling of the New York of the 1970s - lively, slightly dangerous, off-beat types on every block, can be found in Brooklyn now.Candanoreply@blogger.com