Shopping gets dropped
Department stores in NYC — once the center of every famous rump waddling with every rich wallet — gone. Shut. Closed. Bye buy, ta-ta.
Remember? Barneys, Lord & Taylor, Gimbels, S. Klein’s, Ohrbach’s, De Pinna, Russeks, Henri Bendel, Franklin Simon, Loehmann’s, JCPenney, Abraham & Straus, Takashimaya, Saks Fifth — teetering. Bergdorf’s, Macy’s — tottering. Others — twittering.
To do alterations, your nearest seamstress now is in Cleveland. Even for a second tier of bar mitzvah invitees it’s sneakers, T-shirts, jeans. Cocktail clothes gone to the dogs.
Even the rich-rich are into consignment shops. Secondhand, slightly used — all fine. I gave my Yorkie a never ever worn Pauline Trigère sweater. Loaded with lace and paillettes. He turned away to play with a spitty rubber ball.
NYC is having a bad slide. I’m never saying or even thinking fellow Americans, like America Ferrera, Alyssa Milano, Angelina Jolie, Shailene Woodley, Susan Sarandon, are wrong. Just saying I somehow don’t think it’s what Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, John Adams had in mind when they stood in their britches and proclaimed this heretofore GodBlessUs United States of America.
Citizens facing country’s issues ‘Alone’
What’s happening? Kennedy Center closing. White House under remake. New York mayor’s a socialist. Grammys celebrating something called Bad Bunny, which is a stretch from Sinatra, Crosby, Tormé, “God Bless America’s” Kate Smith.
America’s marching. Protesting. Setting fires. Bare nipples, public peeks at a star’s behind cracks have replaced patriotism. Ads for medicines, pills, lawyers have replaced entertainment.
Citizens robbed, knifed, shot, killed, abducted. They’re poor, hungry, can’t do nurseless hospitals — and a California dude with Brilliantine in his hair is scratching to be president.
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Yeah? Well, first take care of the soaring expenses, watch over the elderly and ailing, muscle insurance companies, repair bridges and tunnels, lower prices, do something about automobiles taking NYC a week to get crosstown. Handle marchers, protesters, flag burners, college expenses, religious hatred, aging infrastructures, rein in the pols making all the money, give back our pennies, see that poor people can afford food.
Even our movies now have an angst. Take Rachel McAdams’ box office thriller “Send Help.” She says: “A friend called it a ‘demented romp.’ It’s not straight ahead horror. It has dark undertones.”
Right. She also watched survival series “Alone.” If watching it, don’t go by yourself. Take a wild boar along.
This is what agitators want? To create political and media hysteria? To basically destroy us?
OK, you can disagree. That’s your right. But killing our flag? Burning our books? Tearing up religions? Marching against our own?
Not only in New York, but everywhere, it needs to be God Bless America.