I never went to the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade as a kid (i.e., childhood through my early 20s), it was only after returning from grad school out of state that I started attending. That was towards the end of Rudy's reign and the parades tended to feature some great commentary on politics in the city and nationally. The tip of the iceberg were huge papier-mache heads of the relevant people of the day made to look very gruesome and scary. [Room 8 is experiencing technical difficulties, if there are spacing issues, it's not my fault.]

Scott, like all the Manhattan Beep candidates last year, promised to do more with the office than Clara did. Granted that this is very low hurdle to jump, I'm wondering how he's doing. The standard measure of how well a new elected is doing is the first 100 days, well, this week Scott will have had 300.

We know that post Charter Revision, the Beeps have very little power and in the Mayor Mike Era, the Beep's budgets were seriously cut. Thus, it might be difficult to accomplish even the same amount that Clara did (which would be, basically, nothing).

 

Here are two unrelated thoughts:

1) Who is Adam Green and where did he come from? I've been very amused by the LunchBox and look forward to it each day. But, I repeat, who is he and where did he come from? Was he lurking on the blogs since the Politicker was the only game in town, only to recently reveal himself? Is he related to John Stewart? Does he think maybe it's time for a haircut? Is he really a computer generated character, a 21st Century Max Headroom if you will, created by Gur? Hmmm, maybe he's the elusive Gatemouth? I must know! (and not just cuz I have a little crush going on).

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