I wasn't glum, I was mad.
"It's got a serious side to it but it's not a glum show.
Goldberg insisted that the Jets should not feel glum that the Giants have chosen, with the National Football League, to take the financial risk of revamping the stadium.
This year, the Ryanair boss (Mr O'Leary, not the glum Dickens character) appears to have borrowed Santa's clothes, with passenger-friendly moves to make flying with Europe's biggest no-frills airline less stressful.
Indeed, New Yorkers are not as glum about the economy as the rest of the country; in a Times/CBS News poll earlier this month, 86 percent of Americans described the national economy as bad.
The Temple-goers, by Aatish Taseer (Viking, £12.99) Journalist Aatish Taseer has been hailed by VS Naipaul as the "Indian Bret Easton Ellis", and his pulsating account of modern-day Delhi certainly shares Ellis's ambition, if not his glum depravity.
But the countries that most recently benefited — the ex-Communist nations which regained liberty in the 1990s — are not uniformly glum, nor are all going hat in hand to the European Union, the International Monetary Fund or other institutions for help.
But it's not all glum, chum.
I'm not as glum as I sound.
You take the inevitable loss of the strength, virility, health and looks hitting millions of people in a culture that elevates all things young and beautiful and who wouldn't feel "glum?" Perhaps Boomer depression isn't about reaching midlife, but about anticipating living 30 or 40 more years in American culture?
