With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
September 16, 2003 - 1:31 a.m.
Class went really well today. I got out of my second class and felt like I had just started. Nobody slept in the calculus class and everyone was their usually perky selves in Math 101. I did word problems so I ended up talking about DVN and my friends concert going habits. I love it when I’m bouncing off the walls when I teach.
When I got home I went to put on TV to watch Stargate. One problem there was no sound. I thought the problem might be with the cable box or the VCR but when I popped in a tape there was still no sound. I did what any red blooded American would do, I ran to the store and bought a new one. I realized that my old set was even older than I thought. The latest I bought it was 1980. I’ve owned only two sets my entire life. I got the first in 1963. The new set is a 20 inch stereo RCA. My last one was RCA too, lets see if it lasts as long.
That’s enough about my life. The big news today is not private. The Bottom Line is being threatened with eviction. You can read about it here.
HELP SAVE THE BOTTOM LINE:A note to friends of the Bottom Line from Allan Pepper and Stanley
Snadowsky:
The doors may soon close on a thirty year legacy.
The Bottom Line has been presenting live music since February 12, 1974, and
is owned and operated by Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky, who have been
friends since childhood. The Bottom Line is unique because it is a "mom &
pop store" amidst a crowded field of conglomerates and corporations. Our
main commodity in the club has always been and will always be the music.
The Bottom Line has always been, and still is, run by Allan & Stanley, who
take a great pride in what they do. They always have and still love the
music.
The problem is as follows:
Even before the terrorist attacks on the World Trader Center, the nation was
already feeling the downturn in the economy. Our business, along with so
many other small businesses, has not been able to recover since the tragedy
of September 11th. Attendance to shows has declined. In addition, our
customers are feeling economic stress, our bills have been multiplying, and
we have found ourselves substantially behind in our rent. Our landlord, New
York University, has started eviction proceedings.
During our negotiations with New York University to resolve this situation,
the Bottom Line has presented several different proposals to pay our past
due rent, while at the same time keeping current with a new, higher rent
proposed by NYU. Unfortunately, NYU has not been open to negotiating a
long-term solution to our mutual problem. We want to pay off our debt to
NYU, but to do so we need to remain in business. To stay in business, we
need a promise from NYU that, if we pay off the rental arrears, they won't
evict the Bottom Line.
Unless we can sway NYU to give us this basic assurance, we won't be able to
take the steps necessary to save the Bottom Line. If you'd like to help,
here's what you can do.
Let NYU know how important the Bottom Line is to the metropolitan area and
what a loss it would be if the city was downsized by another landmark -
particularly if you are an alumnus/a of NYU. Send a note to John Beckman
assistant vice president of the Office of Public Affairs at
lynne.brown@nyu.edu . Please send us a copy at
SaveBLT@aol.com.- and please forward this message to your friends.
Please support The Bottom Line now. Do not put off seeing a show today
because we may not have a tomorrow.
You can e-mail us at: SaveBLT@aol.com
Thank you for your support.
Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky
The Bottom Line
Instead of reinventing the wheel and rhapsodizing over the Bottom Line I’m going to just give the text of the letter I sent to NYU.
I might be able to imagine a New York without The Bottom Line but I don’t' want to. I always describe it as my home away from home. There is no place that I have had more good times in. It is the most important cultural institution in my life. It serves a purpose as important as Lincoln Center or Carnegie Hall. There is no comparable venue in the City. It has a fabled history but more important it has a bright future. It is a place where you can see not only established stars but new talent. The required listening shows by themselves would make it irreplaceable. After 9/11 there were many memorials and benefit concerts. The Bottom line's was unique. They simply opened their doors and had a parade of talent giving a show for free, not to raise money but to raise spirits. I realize that times are tough and money is tight but NYU's mission is education. The Bottom line furthers that mission. It spreads music and culture to the community. If it closes its doors it will leave a void in the community, the city, and my heart.
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Email me: GordonLew at gmail
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile September 16, 2003
