Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
Donate to Doctors Without Borders
I have been a fan of Doctors Without Borders for quite some time. How can you not? These are people who go into the worst situations in the world and provide much needed medical treatment. War zones, disaster areas, you name it. They don’t care where it is or how bad the situation, they just go and do. Having met people who work within the organization, you realize they’ve made that great leap that too many of us are too scared to make: if you give a damn about the world, go out and do something to fix it. And they do it with out judging the people they’re treating or trying to browbeat them with political or religious dogma.
To get an idea of what it’s like for physicians and field workers who put in their time with MSF, do check the very excellent documentary, Living in Emergency.
Living in Emergency Trailer from LivinginEmergency on Vimeo.
Donate to Yorkville Common Pantry
You don’t have to be a history major to know that homelessness and poverty is an inherit part of urban life. Read Stephen Crane’s excellent short story, “An Experiment in Misery,” and too much of its 1800s setting still sounds the same. The simple fact is that there can never enough money and/or resources to eliminate either problem. I was a regular volunteer at YCP for a while and then had dropped off recently. Feeling guilty, I went back to volunteer just have the recession hit. The number of families coming to YCP for the Food Pantry program had skyrocketed. I became a proud supporter of YCP after I first started volunteering there and witnessing the simplicity of the Food Pantry program. It isn’t a soup kitchen, but rather designed to help poorer families get through the week and not fall through the cracks (as too often happens). In addition to the pantry program, they also provide a 24/7 emergency food program for families and individuals, as well as homeless support and counseling for those in need.
Just happened to have some McCallan on hand for the occasion.
I’ve got to read more Simenon. I read Three Bedrooms In Manhattan and loved it, but haven’t gotten to any others. This and Trains both sound great.
Once again, NYRB does a great job of bringing really a great (and yet almost forgotten about) writer back into print. I’m just starting on Red Lights now. GS never disappoints. I’ve heard Dirty Snow is quite stellar as well.
Awwwwww! Sooooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, I happen to have three of these record/comics and the Planet of the Apes happens to be one of them. I also have Captain America and the Hulk vs. Abomination (like the movie).
I did have the Hulk vs. Abomination one as well. I also had the Spider-Man one where J. Jonah Jameson’s son comes back from the moon and turns into a werewolf. I do remember picking up the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea edition from my local library. And I completely forgot that I actually had this G.I. Joe one. You’re much more sensible than I Leroux. I sold all mine like an idiot many years back.
Hey! Was just looking for information about this record because I do listings for a friend’s record store on the ol’ eBay, and your description of it is making me not want to sell it now. Mummies? Dictators? Holy crap.
And I was going to throw in a promo poster along with the dark maroon first pressing. Crap. Decisions must now be made.
Whatever you do don’t sell it! You don’t just toss away good music like that to some yahoo who’s only gonna turn around and resell it.
I’m not at all surprised. I got to venture through a lot of Manhattan yesterday. Discovered what the biggest business is there now. This fits right in with that.