Category Archives: superstitions

Thai No Nos

February 6, 2012 – 1:08 pm

Last night I walked across town heading for the Brooklyn Bridge. The Patriots had lost to the Giants in the Superbowl and I was in no mood for celebration. Approaching Chinatown I turned around to survey the city skyline shimmering under a clear sky dotted by the few stars strong enough to pierce New York’s [...]

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The End Of An Era

February 6, 2012 – 8:18 am

Five Super Bowls appearances resulted in three championships for the New England Patriots during the Belichek-Brady era and both those post-season losses came at the hands of Giants quarterbacked by Eli Manning. Each of those games were decided in the last minute by spectacular passes against a weary secondary and the result in 2012 mirrored [...]

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AVOIDANCE OF BAD LUCK

January 5, 2012 – 12:07 pm

The 2003 movie THE COOLER tells the story of an indebted Las vegas dealer whose only skill is to cool a gambler’s winning streak. Anytime I’ve been lucky at the tables, the house has pulled the losing dealer for a replacement dealer. The house always wins, but gamblers are a suspicious lot and here are [...]

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Collect Call to the After-Life

December 1, 2011 – 12:55 pm

This summer my brother visited me in a dream. My deceased mother and I were sitting in a ramshackle cottage on Cape Cod. My brother said he was going to meet friends. He looked happy, as he ran out the door. It was a little too short, but I was happy to see him and [...]

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The Death Of Me

November 24, 2011 – 6:36 am

Last night I attended the opening of the “Dream’ exhibition at Luxembourg’s Mudam Museum. Madame l’Ambassador bailed early for a formal dinner with diplomats. The driver asked if i needed a lift back to the city. The museum is located on the opposite side of the gorge running through the city. I had traversed it [...]

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