Twirling Twirling Into The Future

JEFFREY. I meant JEFFREY Epstein. Jeez.

Anyway, here are the buildings we were arguing about. Met Life:

The lower section on the right was built first, and designed by Napoleon LeBrun, who also designed the tower. He didn't seem particularly concerned with integrating the two structures. There's some coherence on the bottom floors, but they part ways until the balconies on the tower tie in to the line of the old building's cornice.

It's a beaut.

The New York Life.

It's much more earthbound than Cass Gilbert's other NYC skyscrapers. Compared to Woolworth, it's a broad, shouldered man sitting on a chair.

I am only minutes into listening to this podcast, but that's not too soon for me to jump in with a comment.

As a college freshman during the first Reagan term, I decided to start reading the Wall Street Journal editorial page. One measure of how naive and innocent I was then is how often I would get to the end of a piece and still wonder if I had just finished a facetious work of satire.

All right, (as Peter would say, and does), I recall from then that they ran a series of letters contesting the proposition that Don McLean's "the day the music died" was really November 22, 1963, and not February 3, 1959.

I look forward to such a very special podcast episode. And anything to enhance Peter's familiarity with popular the music of the 20th Century would count as a mitzvah.

Making dinner, put the Ricochet podcast on. Assembling Reubens. Desperately waiting for an ad so I can use the electric can opener to get at the sauerkraut, but I can't miss a minute of this argument over the name of a building in New York.

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JEFFREY. I meant JEFFREY Epstein. Jeez.

Anyway, here are the buildings we were arguing about. Met Life:

The lower section on the right was built first, and designed by Napoleon LeBrun, who also designed the tower. He didn’t seem particularly concerned with integrating the two structures. There’s some coherence on the bottom floors, but they part ways until the balconies on the tower tie in to the line of the old building’s cornice.

It’s a beaut.

The New York Life.

It’s much more earthbound than Cass Gilbert’s other NYC skyscrapers. Compared to Woolworth, it’s a broad, shouldered man sitting on a chair.

The second building, the New York Life tower, sits on the block previously occupied by the old Madison Square Garden, where Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906, where Jack Dempsey knocked out Bill Brennan in 1920, and where in 1924 the Democrats took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan for president and vice-president.

What is “inclimate” weather? Is that different from inclement weather?