My sense of self and my private desires got boxed in a mile high in the sky yesterday. I almost didn’t make it through. I was flying out to Los Angeles for a business meeting. I had a window seat in the front of the plane. An attractive and composed young woman sat in the […]
I flew from Atlanta to Los Angeles last night. I couldn’t get comfortable in my seat. There was nothing to eat. After a few hours I was restless, dropping in and out of a bad nap. Thank god I wasn’t taking the Mainline route — 15–1/2 hours and I would have been a puddle.
Yesterday I flew from the east coast to Los Angeles and watched two movies that were uncanny in the similarity of their view of the human condition. The moral synchronicity was more startling for the cultural chasm between the two films: the uber-Wasp corporate reality of the Reitman brothers’ Up in the Air and the […]