A car giant crumbles and bargains in Hamptons’ rentals!

I have New Times alerts sent directly to my cell phone and last night was surprised at a few minutes to midnight that my phone beeped and there was the news that GM’s assets were approved to be sold off to a new government-backed company. I immediately mused to my boyfriend “I wonder if that means China?” I giggled and then realized that it wasn’t all that funny. Our trade deficit with China is so large that our children’s children’s children will inherit the legacy. Lucky them.

On a more positive note, you can rent a home in the Hamptons (probably not beach front at this point) for a lot less than you could in the past. Along with your low-priced two-month rental fee of $225,000 you can get a facelift and a private staff to help you recuperate. I’m already in the car.

A sound artist has done a clever thing in New York. He’s taken recordings that he’s gathered from the pedestrian tunnel just north of the Central Park Zoo, edited them and is now piping the recordings back into the tunnel. While I think that it’s probably kind of interesting to listen to, I also like the sound of my footsteps and the birds as I walk through the tunnel. Mind you I haven’t been there in a while, but in the times that I’m the lone soul traversing through the expansive dome, the sound of my sneakers crunching leaves and stones sends a little tickle through me. I’ve often imagined the rest of world has disappeared or I’m hiding from deadlines, phone calls or my loved ones who are just getting on my nerves a bit that day. It’s my guilty little pleasure when I’m in New York that calls to me in my hotel room until I return to pay homage. And now it’s filled with sound…..that isn’t normally there…. that doesn’t happen by chance. Okay, so I’m trying to say it’s not organic.

Anyone that knows me knows that my preference is “organic” in just about anything — and that I can too put down my Blackberry….. as long as I know where it is!

gloria