Pearl Snap Redux

30Dec07

Lots of folks – good folks, I’m sure – navigate their way on the information superhighway over to this site looking for details on pearl snap shirts, since I have written about them in the context of saying that the Lovely K once quipped that “only cowboys and dorks wear pearl snap shirts, and [the [...]

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Six fingers on each hand

28Dec07

We took the boys to Magnolia Bakery down in the Village last night.  What a disappointment.  Not only did they not have a bathroom for children in distress – we went to the nicely-staffed Chinese restaurant down the street with the sign in the door that read, “Restrooms for Customer Only” – but the baked [...]

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IP

28Dec07

In a bold intellectual property rights grasp, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities plans to send legislation to the Egyptian Parliament that will force others to share profits from the use of ancient and museum objects like the pyramid, the Times reported today (“Egypt to copyright landmarks”).  Case in point: more people visit the pyramid-shaped Luxor [...]

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Herkies for the basketball players

28Dec07

My high school, Trinity, on West 91st Street, didn’t have a football team, but we did offer fencing.
Litigious parents made sure that our mascot, The Trinity Tiger, never appeared next to a gridiron after about 1972, but come 1976 or so these same parents – effete and urbane – made sure their kids participated in [...]

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Nadler’s for Hillary

26Dec07

Ran into Congressman Jerrold Nadler about twenty minutes ago at the Barnes & Noble on 82nd and Broadway.
He went to the wrong area in the checkout line and a cashier corrected him on where to stand.  He started to walk past me – I had arrived there after him.  He wore dirty white running shoes, [...]

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