Old Fashioned Sexist Attitude: I don’t see a woman having consensual sex with a fifteen year old guy worthy of anything much worse than a chuckle and a clap on the back for the guy. I assume, like anything, the operative word is consensual. Personally, my friend at High School was having an affair with his teacher when he was fifteen years old and all it got him was a lifetime of wonderful memories now and boatloads of self-confidence at the time. If “Summer Of ’42” happened in the “Summer Of ’15”, the war widow would be in jail right now because Oscy and Benjie (“I’m a dangerous man, I truly am” ) secretly filmed her and Hermie and posted it online and somebody (everybody) snitched to the cops -who took a break from frisking black male teenagers for loitering in their backyard, to bust her. We live in a sharp elbowed, intrusive, ill mannered, nosey, aggressive, and pointedly ignorant of human nature, age.
Throwback Thursday: As the MTA falls to pieces in front of a breathless populace, kicking and screaming into the abyss, you can’t help wonder how a monopoly on public transportation can raise prices and lose money decade after useless decade. Of course, this is the same Government who lost money on Off Track Betting. MTA chief Tom Prendergast “I saw what this place was like back in January of 1982, and I saw how far we’ve come. I’m confident that it won’t go back to that.” Well, I feel much better about life.
Live: I keep telling folks I’ve never seen Bette Midler live before, actually I saw her at a benefit with Robin Williams about ten years. What I haven’t seen is big budget Arena show Bette and with a good album released last year, It’s The Girls, and we are getting that plus greatest hits, it should be a goodie.
Recorded: I’ve been flip flopping from Bully to Wolf Alice and back all day.