Yesterday & Today
A new catch phrase keeps popping up in radio news reports: “President Trump said — without evidence…”
While sharing reminisces and laughs yesterday at a mini work reunion, I asked if anyone had heard anything about a broker whose badge read PEET, one of the Commodity Exchange’s all-time great characters, who treated us to many dinners at such venues as Peter Luger’s. I was happy to hear Pete Columbia has been getting work as an actor. Here are his credits, listed ast IMDb, followed by a pic. Way to go, Pete!
2020 High Maintenance (TV Series) — Cop
Backflash (2020) — Cop
Plain Fiction (2018) — Ernest
Cicatrix (2018) (TV Movie) — Fred
Patti Cake$ (2017) — Barfly
Chuck (2016) — Bar Patron
A Crime to Remember (TV Series documentary, 2013-’14)) — Campus Police Officer / Lead Detective / UNI #4
The 28th Floor (2014) — Campus Police Officer
Who Killed Mr. Woodward? (2013) — Lead Detective
The Career Girl Murders (2013) — UNI #4
Crooked Lines — (2003)
Mary Ellen was a brokers’ clerk for many years. She is now a nurse at a Bronx facility. While doctors and nurses around her were contracting the virus, she somehow avoided it, probably because of fantastic genes. And she doesn’t have the antibodies many crave… Scottie summed up the madcap experience of working at the Exchange best, as once espoused by a trader: “Junior High with money.”… Richie, whose job it was to help clerks process brokers’ trades, filled everyone in on the legendary catfight he had to break up in the coffee room when we were still at 4 World Trade. Monica and Jackie, traders, went toe to toe, hurling epithets, scratching and clawing. Java flew everywhere. Jackie took a bite out of Richie. Both women were fined and suspended… Richie made the day’s most salient point. We’re all nostalgic for the freedom of speech we enjoyed down there. That place could not exist in today’s climate. Here’s a shot of a portion of the gold pit at One North End. To my chagrin, I’ve forgotten some of the names:
The books’ order I first put in on June 30th has finally arrived. I had to reorder when it never moved after its supposed July 14th arrival at the UPS in Saddle River, NJ. For the first time, all twelve titles will be available. A recent sale of Present and Past has pulled into the plus side. Five of the works are now profitable.
My thanks to Amazon, which deposited a royalty payment into my bank account for the one print copy of Vito’s Day that has sold online. I’d be surprised if it ever reached profitability. Its appeal is limited. As for outdoor activity, my thanks to the gentleman who did a swap and buy of Russian books; and to the young mom who bought a Dora the Explorer book for her scooter riding beautiful little girl and Danielle Steel’s Loving for herself; and to the woman who purchased a collection of Twilight Zone scripts, Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. She had a bull frog with her, kept in one of those cases folks use to transport cats to the vet. She rescued it from under the ell near Bay Parkway and 86th. It’s a miracle it wasn’t squashed on that busy stretch. It may not survive, however, as it hasn’t been eating.
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