Howard was a student of mine in a college chemistry class. A
few years later I met him by chance at supermarket.
"Howard," I asked, "have your grown? You seem taller than when you were
in my class."
"No," he replied, "I've been this height ever since
you knew me." He added, "I think instructors look down on students." It is a pun worth remembering.
It turned out he was in
computers. A comparison of our earnings motivated me to look into
switching careers. Howard moved on from computers, but that's what I've
been doing for about 30 years.
Later, he became my broker. His
only problem was that he didn't treat me like my mother. Howard used
broker speech whereas my mother would say, "Sell it you damn fool."
It
may not seem funny now, but when we couldn't get into a van Gogh
exhibit, Howard suggested that we threaten to cut off our ears unless
they let us in. We laughed ourselves silly. We laughed even harder as we walked up Fifth Avenue as
mothers yanked their children out of the path of the two giddy lunatics.
I miss him.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Monday, August 04, 2014
Farewell Steve Post
Steve Post, a legendary, wry, long-time morning personality on WNYC-FM, died yesterday, Sunday.
A self-described curmudgeon, I found his sour, irreverent comments on the news appealing. When reading press releases about accidents at the Indian Point nuclear power plant he might conclude "Authorities claim - all together now - no significant release of radiation".
Once, as part of a group invitation to broadcasters, he got to meet with Richard Nixon. A non-disclosure agreement prevented him from discussing the specifics, but he was able to say, "I've never seen a man more uncomfortable in his own skin." It was an illuminating description.
His last show, carried this tagline: "The No Show is a showcase for the idiosyncratic views and humor of Steve Post, a world-class curmudgeon whose irreverence and iconoclasm have entertained audiences and appalled radio station managers for four decades.sm have entertained audiences and appalled radio station managers for four decades."
Of course, fund raising could never be the same without his emotional breakdown during on-air fund drives.
He appealed to me in part because he claimed to live a life of not so quiet desperation
A self-described curmudgeon, I found his sour, irreverent comments on the news appealing. When reading press releases about accidents at the Indian Point nuclear power plant he might conclude "Authorities claim - all together now - no significant release of radiation".
Once, as part of a group invitation to broadcasters, he got to meet with Richard Nixon. A non-disclosure agreement prevented him from discussing the specifics, but he was able to say, "I've never seen a man more uncomfortable in his own skin." It was an illuminating description.
His last show, carried this tagline: "The No Show is a showcase for the idiosyncratic views and humor of Steve Post, a world-class curmudgeon whose irreverence and iconoclasm have entertained audiences and appalled radio station managers for four decades.sm have entertained audiences and appalled radio station managers for four decades."
Of course, fund raising could never be the same without his emotional breakdown during on-air fund drives.
He appealed to me in part because he claimed to live a life of not so quiet desperation
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