Thank you also for the rundown of the many NYC cinemas which have closed. My family read the New Yorker regularly and one of the first sections I turned to as a child was the film reviews. The cinema listings were mind-boggling. So many cinemas and so many films!

May God continue to bless you in your Lutheran faith and in your life.

P.S. The Fed job was for the firm that immediately preceded ISD.

My Father passed when I was 19. he was only 48 years old. Thanks to Tony, I began working in the same field and learned a lot from him. I now have 27 years years in and am considered by some pretty knowledgeable. I was 21 when we started working together and we grew close and he was like a father figure to me.

incredible write up. Knowing your father as well as I did it means that much more.

“My father’s reputation for honesty was that indelible. No number of sermons could possibly have impressed me as much as that incident.”

thats ironic, I have been left alone in a vault with cash exposed also. I guess his work legacy lives on in me…I am proud of that.

“One of his more memorable jobs was servicing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Downtown Manhattan. He traveled what seemed like a mile underground to a vault whose door was so thick it was impossible to move manually.”

we have the Fed now at Diebold. when I was still working in the city it would be a yearly event to go there and service the gold vault. the guy who I went in with is Maltese and much like your father only he is about 4 years older than me.

I dont remember having “the Fed” when Tony and I worked at ISD but he, I and Armando did repair the counter weights of a retractable floor in the sub basement of the Empire state building. it is one of my fonder memories.

I did not know what he had bad experiences in the nursing homes.

“The disease would finally force him to retire when still capable of experiencing profoundly the loss of his much-loved work.”

I think I do remember when it started and he was still working. he cut his arm with a grinder at work and thats when things started to get odd. once I had to go help him finish changing a combo and I was like Tony, whatsamaterwith you…you taught me this shit. but mid way through he sort of snapped to and was like what are you doing here…I did not know what to make of it and told Armando. I felt like I was told to mind my own business…I wish I had not

then when I knew something was wrong was when I had to go meet him someplace. he said he put his tool box down to put a quarter in the meter and someone stole his stuff….not that it doesnt happen but he was so confused that I just had the feeling he put it down and forgot it and by the time he came back it was gone. I hated seeing that stuff happen.

he was such a good guy, loved you, your mom and Anthony SO much. I try to keep a piece of him with me in work and at home. I am certainly not as “good” as he was but I hope in some way I made him proud of me.

oh, and

nice knockers

why thank you

once of my favorite movies of all time

Were Dawkins and his ilk correct that our existence and form are a result of random mutating forces undirected by any intelligence, no thought, assertion or action could be defended as intelligent, rational, reasonable. After all, that randomness could not be relied on to produce a logical reasoning thought process, leaving us with any expression of the random brain waves nothing more than a vocal eruption of disconnected brain explosions no more or less significant than any other.

Hmmm. . . . perhaps Dawkins is the product of such events.

What’s with the “Claremont Institute”? Did you graduate from CMC? Isn’t that the college with a Karl Marx Hall (well, actually “Carl Marks”). Let’s hear it for the Stags–CMC, BFD.

I remember that, after seeing Saturday Night Fever with you, I went home and took down all of my Shaun Cassidy posters because I had a new love, John Travolta.

http://www.askactor.com/actress/Barry_Livingston/galleries/

The money paid to these public institution is no doubt going to promote views and practices anathema to many, if not most, of these congregations. The churches no doubt teach things odious to many in these secular institutions. Nevertheless, it was considered a win-win situation UNTIL someone noticed that Christian congregations were the usual renters of these spaces, for the astonishing reason that the majority of people who regularly practice a religion even in this supposedly secular city are Christian. No other religion was barred from doing what Christian congregations were doing. But no chance to marginalize Christians, even those among the poorest and hard-pressed sectors of the city, people already marginalized, can be allowed to pass in some quarters.

Your comment about “contraception laws violating your religious beliefs” is just too meaningless and daft to even comment on. Stop watching MSNBC and read a book on the religious history of this country. It may just keep you from typing out such nonsense again.