Vows
Elaine likes to read the New York Times section about weddings. Usually, the people involved are upper middle class folks who like tp mention their family's good works, their good educations, and professions. Sometimes I take a look also, and this last Sunday I read about an interesting wedding.
Ann Horwitz and Ariel Dubin were married on October 8th at the Hayes Mansion in San Jose, California. Ann Horwitz is studying for a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Maryland. She is a magna cum laude master in International education policy. She matriculated at Harvard. She also had a Fulbright scholarship as a teaching assistant in Indonesia.
Her bride, Ariel Dubin is a doctoral fellow in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery at Columbia. She was also a magna cum laude student and received her medical degree at Georgetown. Her father is a dentist in San Jose and her mother is a parenting educator in Los Gatos.
Why I was interested in this marriage was because of Ann Horwitz' parents. Her father is a famous lyricist and playwright. He is an author of "Ain't Misbehaving," which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1978. Among other accomplishments, he is the new host of the weekly old time radio program: "The Big Broadcast" on WAMU (Washington.) This is a show that I seldom miss.
He was also the creator of another program that I seldom miss: "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." An amazing person.
Her mother was a mezzo-soprano who sang with the Eastern Opera Theater and the Manhattan Savoyards. She also performed with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
What a family!
The Week reports that a college art teacher was able to legally change her name fo the entire alphabet. ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQURST UVWXYZ said she changed her name "so people wouldn't know it's me." Huh? This must drive bank tellers crazy.
The Week also reports about the London commuter hurrying to a job interview, who pushed and shoved a guy out of the way on the subway. When he walked into the interviewer's office, who should he meet up with? Yep... the person he pushed. I wonder if he got the job. What do you think?
This reminds me of the time a truck in back of me tooted and tried to run me off the road because the driver thought I was going too slow. As he passed, he gave me "the finger" and I also pointed with mine.... at the sign on the side of his truck... Stanley Steemer... was he surprised when I showed up at the job he was hurrying to... at my house.
Tidbits from Readers Digest
"Four-year-old said he went potty, and I asked if it was Number 1 or 2. He said Number 7, and now I'm afraid to go into the bathroom.:
"A buck - called that because in the 1700's trappers could sell a single buckskin for a dollar."
Stephen Fry, actor said: "Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators."
There is only one Kosher McDonalds outside of Israel. It's in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Dolly Parton: "I'm not offended by blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb ... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer and fellow Mensan: "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Abraham Lincoln: He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
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