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.
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going past them into the impossible.
November 01, 2009 - 10:19 a.m.
Happy All Saints Day. You know how much I care about that.
So last you heard I was excoriating myself for procrastinating so long that the lines were immense at the Halloween store and was hoping to be inspired and make something at home. I did. This took me about 10 minutes from conception to completion, 
I'm never happy with photos other people take of me with my camera. Why don't they ever come out well. At least you get the gist of it. There were actually two layers. Under the sweatshirt I was wearing a Mets Jersey with the same sign on it.
I got a great reaction from the moment I put it on. I walked to the store to get eggs. Six people laughed out loud when they saw it. When the trick-or-treaters came by they weren't impressed but their parents were. One of them took my picture. When I went to the Knick game two more people asked if they could take my picture and many others laughed or commended me on it. It is the epitome of one of my costumes, it's all conception, not execution. I didn't buy anything. I even had the mask left over from when I was taking care of my mother. I still have dozens left. If you ever need a mask, ask me.
At my old house we hardly ever got trick-or-treaters. It was nice to have them here. My building was a bit fascist about it. I got a piece of paper with a picture of a jack-o-lantern on it shoved under my door earlier in the week. I almost through it out then saw that on the back were the trick-or-treating rules. Only people who live in the building can trick-or-treat. They can only ring your bell if you attach the picture of the jack-o-lantern to your door. They can only come by from 5 PM to 8 PM. The last part was the worst. I had to leave at 6:30 so I only had a hour and a half to hand out treats. I had about a dozen kids come by and I loved it. They are going to like me. I didn't hand out "fun sized" candy. I bought the "snack size" Reese Cups and Kit Kats.
The reason I went out was that I went to the Knicks home opener. This was a rare event, Alan and I were joined by Aubrey. Alan and I know each other through Aubrey but as he isn't a sports fan he hardly ever goes with us.
Alan and Aubrey
Aubrey chose a good game. The Knicks came from 23 points back to tie the game and send it into overtime. They then ran out of gas and were trounced but still the comeback was great.
It's weird being with Alan and Aubrey together. We are all friends from the same area with similar backgrounds and knew each other for years. We each have plenty to talk about with each other one-on-one. There is almost nothing all three of us can talk about together. It's always two of us talking and the third person amusing himself. I don't know if they are as aware of this as I am. I'm always watching social interactions even when I'm taking part in them.
This might be my first time taking photos at a Knick game. Here's what I see from my seat.
The World's Most Famous Arena
I have often told you about the celebrities at the game.
Woody Allen
Dustin Hoffman
See, we sit right by the celebrities. You buy that right?
I wish I could have gotten a good shot of John McEnroe. He was in costume. He had a hippie with wig and headband on and looked like someone at Woodstock.
After the game Alan and Aubrey went home on the LIRR and I took the subway. I got not one but two negative comments on my way home, one at MSG and the other on the street. Both mocked me for wearing a "swine flu" mask. That bugged me not for any personal reasons but because they clearly didn't get the joke and I could have been a person with a compromised immune system and they though that was something to mock.
Now I have a year to come up with next year's costume.
Today I'm seeing Rod Picott and Amanda Shires, with Anna Egge.
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