Back from Back East
I’m back today from a relatively long (5-day) trip to New York. I think I’m jet-lagged in two directions, as well as still getting over the problems of airplane germs, long days of meetings, long nights of drinking (and bowling!), and short nights of sleep. On the bright side, these meetings felt genuinely productive (as opposed to many others) and I’m starting to feel like we’ll actually achieve something close to our goals.
I missed the inauguration, but made up for that with some quality time with Philippe and Dylan (some old college buddies). Philippe and I went to see Waltz with Bashir – an utterly amazing film, an animated pseudo-documentary about a man trying to remember his experiences (specifically, a genocidal attack against Muslims in a refugee camp in Lebanon) as an Israeli soldier during their war with Lebanon in the 1980s. Totally unexplainable – be ready for some rather brutal emotions.
My favorite take on the flubbed inaugural oath is Steven Pinker’s Oaf of Office.
Also, I saw Janeane Garofalo at my gate in JFK, but she disappeared before I could get a picture with her.
