Cabby strike
The man and his family
I have a terrific shoemaker on Lexington Avenue between 92 and 93. He is Italian and his shop is covered with pictures of him and his family.
Sometimes when I pick up my shoes he gives me chocolates.
Fairly often he sells me shoe trees.
I have plenty of shoe trees but I have also plenty of shoes, and each shoe deserves its own shoe tree, according to my shoemaker.
Today I planned to visit him but because of a cabby strike I postponed the visit.
(N.B. Regarding the cabby strike, an entertaining comment in the newspaper : 'Ed Ott, the executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. umbrella group for the city’s unions, joined her at a news conference and said the strike was effective.
“If you can’t tell the difference between yesterday at Penn Station,” he said, “and today, you’re blind or you’re a tourist.”')
Cabby strike
Isn't your Italian shoemaker worth going through the trouble of visiting him uhh let us say, by underground? Or maybe you could walk !. I mean I don't know where you live in Manhattan, but it seems to me it will never be very far away from your shoemaker.The shoes look worth going through the motions !
And maybe the shoehorn do too !
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The tube in this city is called subway.And I don’t use the subway for visits to my shoemaker. It’s unethical. Regarding walking: Manhattan is bigger than you seem to think.
He also wore a smell of alcohol..
Nice Italian shoes, by the way.
and laces
when I buy a new pair of shoes (or second hand ones for that matter) I always buy it own tin of shoepolish.Shoes
The art of shoecraftsmanship is often overlooked nowadays.Wasn't there someone who said: "good shoes go a long way".
Or was that 'personality'?
Book Fairs opposed to Websites
I remember Arnon Grunberg saying on them that they are equal to Macdonalds when it comes to the (often heard ) argument that they are a great place to meet readers.One could argue that this website created the possibility of readers contacting him and on occasion vice versa.
When browsing through the archive of comments it's not unfair to conclude readers took their opportunity quite willingly .
Where have these 'meetings' left Arnon?
Shoes
When I buy shoes, I go for the comfort first, then quality ands last but not least the looks. So I have a small array of rather cheap to rather expensive shoes.A acquaintance of me goes for quality, then the looks and at last the comfort. She has a wide array of expensive and nice looking shoes and damned painful feet.
