Jones gives good blog?

Robert Caro was on Morning Joe yesterday talking about his book. I did not realize that it only dealt with the first 7 weeks of Johnson Presidency.

Caro seems like a very formal man. It seemed odd that everyone was calling him "Bob" He just seems like a "Mr"

It got me wondering if Jones when he interviewed him
started out with "Mr" or jumped right into "Bob". If he started with Mr, Caro does not seem like the type of guy
who would say please call me "Bob.

 

Interesting story in the Sunday Times actually written by Robert Caro on how he approaches his writing.

The fact that he always puts on a jacket and tie to write confirms his formalness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/nyregion/on-sundays-robert-a-caro-writes-always-dressed-up.html?_r=1

 

Bill Clinton wrote about Passage of Power in The New York Times Book Review. I was underwhelmed by the writing of a Rhodes scholar.

 

Try his book. Seriously, I dare you.

I finished that thing. Brilliant man. Needs to know when to leave something out.

 

Julie Satow in the Times:

The Real Estate Finance Bureau of the New York State attorney general’s office, which processes most new residential real estate projects underway across the state, operates from a cramped corner of the 23rd floor of a nondescript building on lower Broadway.

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The building the Times real estate reporter is describing?

The Equitable Building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable_Building_%28Manhattan%29

 

Subjective and opinion are words in the dictionary.

Some people think fixing coffee machines is a great career and way to spend your life. Others would think it's incredibly monotonous, boring and would sap all will to live. The words subjective and opinion now come into play.

 

When you make it personal and take shots at YF's business, it says 1,000 times more about you than him.

Would you say that to my close friend who is an auto mechanic? My other close friend the plumber?

Childish. And petty.

 

As petty as certain posters who keep taking shots at another former poster who is a national writer?

As petty as copying and pasting full stories and posting them, thus denying the original site a web hit and dancing around copyright?

 

What does "national writer" have to do with it?

One thing that is not subjective is your idiocy which has no boundaries.

 

Do you really want to argue that by some definition the Equitable Building could be called nondescript?

I doubt the author would even argue that. It's a lazy phrase, the author used to set a scene.

The Equitable Building isn't just not nondescript, it's momentous and historic.

It's responsible for New York City's first zoning law, requiring set-backs for tall towers.

The current New York City skyline is a result of the Equitable Building.

 

Nondescript lobby: