Cuyler,

Albany is far enough away from LI that it feels like news from BC.

I stopped paying attention to governor's after Mario Cuomo retired. We 
were working w/ Tishman at the New Amsterdam Theater and bought a table 
for dinner at the Sheraton. That was the last time I saw Cuomo. Willie 
was there that night too. Pataki I gave less attention to other than the 
Castro convertible heiress being the SHPO. What I mostly knew about 
Spitzer was that nothing seemed to have changed on issue that make 
having a small business a different flavor of hell in NY. These days I 
am more into wanting to know my local pols on LI. On some days of 
particular frustration I would tend to amend Von Clausewitz, Politics is 
War to Politics is Nearly Useless. As to my having over the years done 
considerable time/work/projects in Harlem I think I will be paying 
attention to the new governor.

In regard to Eliot Spitzer there was an article buried in the NY Times 
where parents were interviewed on how they were caught having to explain 
Spitzer to their children. So in another context came up the question as 
to how do you deliver the sex talk to your children, and/or how did we 
get the talk ourselves from a parental unit?

I like this comment from a friend: "The talk with my daughter, which had 
to happen before my son got to her, occurred around the time 
evolution--that we "come from apes"--was being taught to her.

As I'm driving her home from school, she says, out of the blue, "That 
must mean my great-grandfather put his penis in a gorilla.""

There is a whole lot to say for taking the train to DC, in-town to 
in-town. I prefer it myself to messing with trying to get to the 
airports. Only non-urbanites would think to take the air shuttle unless 
they are in the 'can afford helicopter to airport' service door-to-door.

For my non-histo presto commentary go to my blog, listed in the sig below.

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