Website Problems
Sometime early this morning, something went wrong with our Discussions area. All of the posts and user registrations for the last week have disappeared. I have contacted Sitecrossing, which hosts…
Elephant on Main Street Blog, 2005 - 2007 Archive July 2005
Thank You
Instantaneously last night, my monologue became a dialogue. And now people are talking to other people, and this site is becoming a conversation.
Few who comes to this site will be without…
Ann Curry's Promo
We're having a new boiler installed and I was bleeding the radiators upstairs for our plumber, Tom Paretti, when Carrick and Duncan yelled, "It's on, dad, it's on." I shut the valve and ran down but…
David Hinckley's Review
David Hinckley's reviewed "Saving Carrick" in this morning's New York Daily News. While he was generally positive, he raised couple of issues that are worth talking about. And what better place than…
Carrick in WDFH-FM
Carrick can be heard in an encore presentation of Recovery Talk on WDFH-FM's webcast at 1:30 PM today (Friday, July 29) and at 8:30 AM Sunday, July 31. Here's the blurb for the program:
On this…
Story on MSNBC.com
I just got word that an a excerpt from our site is now running at the top of the Dateline NBC site, with a link from the top of MSNBC.com.
Welcome to all the readers entering Elephant from these…
Colombia
My good French-Canadian friend, Jacques, who lives in Rome, was in town today for one of his typical whirlwind tours of New York City. He's been coming here for as long as I've known him — more than…
Teo Died
There was a neighborhood block party last night for Cathy, who has sold her house and is moving to South Carolina. Her husband, Peter, died of liver cancer a few years ago. I used to run into Peter…
Diving Catches
The week started out perfectly with a diving catch in left center field. One of the umpires told me later that he had not seen a better catch in ten years. There was a lot of Sunday-morning hyperbole…
Fortune Cookie
Deirdre brought home some chicken lo mein and bean curd soup for dinner. There was a single fortune cookie for the four of us:
"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."
Spamalot
Deirdre and I took Carrick to a matinee performance of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Samuel Shubert Theater this afternoon. We used to alternate taking her to a Broadway show around her birthday —…
More on Love
It would have been Pop's ninety-second birthday today. I sent Maureen and Jim, my "big sister" and "little brother," a backdoor link to some chapters I've been working on about my father. They both…
Dateline NBC release
Someone just sent me a copy of the press release Dateline is sending out about the show. I got to a line that made me start heaving uncontrollably. Tears are still running into my mouth. It wasn't…
FAVOR "House Party"
Deirdre conducted a productive Friends and Voices of Recovery meeting yesterday. One of the upshots of it is that Bill Gillen and Kittie Malloy will host a FAVOR house party in the Orr Room at the…
Duncan, the Forgotten One
I worked with Scott on the site in Brooklyn last night. We signed up with Sitecrossing to host, primarily because of its robust, and relatively cheap, interactive suite and huge storage capacity.…
Title is "Saving Carrick"
We learned on Friday that the title of the Dateline special report will be "Saving Carrick." My immediate reaction was "that's wrong."
"Saving" implies that outside forces had the controlling hand…
Air Date July 29
We learned today that the Dateline Special Report will air Friday, July 29, barring any breaking news event. We are free to tell anybody, and the NBC publicity wheels are grinding into motion. We…
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