I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.
I love 'Boardwalk Empire. ' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.
Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.