I have written previously about the people in the title division of the New York State DMV. It is no longer cool to make jokes about Polish people, Italians, people with physical disabilities, people with learning differences, Black people, Asians, Hispanics, gay and transgender people, Jews or Irish people. It is still OK, but not …
Imagine a Twilight Zone episode that occurs in a mobile home park. There is the usual cast of characters. The evil park owner who cares about nothing but money (think oil executives in The Wages of Fear); The busybody who is in everyone’s business; the town drunk; the conspiracy theorist who get his news from …
Here’s a recent conversation between me and an IT rep from Rent Manager: It’s a system-wide problem. We are working to correct it. Can you give me an ETA? We are working to fix the problem. Can you give me a ballpark estimate? It will be fixed quickly. Could you give me your best estimate …
Here’s a text conversation I recently had with a guy who scraps homes in my park in central New York. A very good tenant just moved out of a park-owned home and bought another home in the same park. The home they moved out of is a crappy 1978 single-wide with a leak nobody can …
This does not look like someplace where history was made: That is the Androscoggin Bank Colisée. It is where the Maine Nordiques play. The Nordiques are a team in the North American Hockey League, which is a USA-sanctioned Tier II junior hockey league. The Colisée is in a crappy section of Lewiston which is, quite …
Members of the Theban chorus were correct when they sang, “Πολλα τα δεινα, κουδεν ανθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει”, but times have changed. Human beings had a good run as the strangest thing in the world, but we were unseated when courts in England and the United States developed doctrines of contract interpretation. The doctrine of consideration …
Consider these statements: When the Meatpacking District was still the Meatpacking District, there was a place where you could drink for free, if you consented to being handcuffed to the bar; Frank Rolfe says that owning a mobile home park is like owning a Waffle House where all your customers are chained to their seats; …
The more I learn about Yale Law School, the less I like what I hear. YLS is the birthplace of the Federalist Society. It is Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh’s alma mater and the primary platform for Amy Chua’s high-strung craziness and Jed Rubenfeld’s creepiness. Because there are no grades, career outcomes are determined by …
In a recent Ketamine-induced dream, I dreamt that I owned a mobile home park in central New York State. The park had fifty lots in all, forty-eight of which were occupied. The two empty lots had park-owned homes on them. One of the park-owned homes – the one closest to the pole barn and pump-house …
It used to be that everyone made fun of Polish people. You didn’t even have to make a joke – you could just say, “Polish”, and people would giggle. If you visit the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY and go to the Blue Room, you can see old clips of Lenny Bruce. Every now …