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Category: daily drivel

  • twofer

    I haven’t run across any really creepy social developments in a while … and then along came this installment of a weekly advice column in The New York Times: My husband grabbed our son’s lunchbox and filled it with beer as we were leaving for an 11 a.m. birthday party for a 1-year-old (whose family… Read.

  • neener neener

    Another personalized license plate I wish I’d thought of: Read.

  • drinking in nyc

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    One afternoon in New York City on our way back from a tour, My Darling B suggested we stop at McSorely’s, reputed to be the oldest continuously-operated tavern in America. From the moment we set foot on the sawdust-strewn floor of the place, I didn’t doubt it. The bar ran down one side of the… Read.

  • cat bed

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    I’m up too early on a Saturday, and I owe it all to Bonkers, the oldest cat here at Our Humble O’Bode, who punched me between the shoulder blades this morning, as he does just about every morning. I think the furry little sausage is keeping track on a scoreboard in his secret lair and… Read.

  • missing fall

    Before we left town to visit New York, the weather here was fine, all the trees were green, even the lawns were starting to look normal again after the summer heat wave that tried to kill them off. New York was hot and muggy. We had a little rain, but temps were always in the… Read.

  • got gas?

    Here’s a weird thing about Manhattan: There are no gas stations, or almost none. The whole time we were there, we saw just two gas stations, and we walked up and down a lot of streets. In six days, we saw just two places selling gas. It was weird, because we saw a lot of… Read.

  • Skyscraper Museum

    Then there was the Skyscraper Museum. A museum about skyscrapers. It was in New York City because where else would you have a Skyscraper Museum? We almost didn’t find the Skyscraper Museum. It’s just north of Battery Park where the streets are so old that they tie themselves in knots so that the address numbers… Read.

  • NYC at night

    New York City at night, looking south from the top of the Empire State Building. (Click on the photo to see it in MEGAVISION!) Fifth Avenue shoots straight down the middle of the island; Broadway cuts across it at an angle. The tallest sparkly tower in the middle distance is the new World Trade Center.… Read.

  • charging bull

    My Darling B posed for her picture with the charging bull of Wall Street, except that it’s not on Wall Street, it’s on Bowling Green at the bottom of Broadway, just north of Battery Park. In fact, it was never on Wall Street. But it is a bull. The artist who made it, Arturo Di… Read.

  • Who You Gonna Call?

    It’s one of those things you’ve got to see when you go to New York City: The Ghostbusters firehouse. Read.

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