"If they hadn't put up that building, you could see the Hudson from here"--Hallelujah I'm a Bum!
Dreamed of getting a job as caretaker in a school.
Dinner was spaghetti (which I cooked).
Saw the DVD of Lewis Milestone's Hallelujah I'm a Bum! (The other DVD player was working again. Its sound problem is intermittent.) It's a 1933 musical, from the time before they introduced the Production Code, so there's quite a bit of off-colour humour. Al Jolson plays the "King of Central Park" (as in a hobo). There's a Depression-era populist theme. Silent comedian Harry Langdon plays a revolutionary!
Visited the old dance studio. My teacher Cynthia now has a tan.
Vanity Fair has a good David Halberstam article about the shadow the Vietnam War casts over American politics today.
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