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Vegetarian Swallow Balls
I went shopping in Chinatown and found these delicacies, which match well with the vegetarian intestines I found last year. Enjoy these---hand slaughtered!---treats on one of the last weekends of…
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New and really improved!
This time I mean it. The weekend's experiment was too slick, but this one is just right: it balances the need for easy access to articles with being able to…
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Noblesse Oblige
Presented: an advertisement for a stoop sale that I saw yesterday in Greenpoint on my way to the Brooklyn Brewery (passing, on the way, the lively Brooklyn Rhythm Masters). I…
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New and Improved!
I'm trying out a new theme because the old one was getting stale. Still a lot to do with this one, but it's slick, no? Opinions? Update: Sunday morning Well,…
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A Return to Seriousness: 7 Best Songs About Beer; Or, God Bless the Pope
Update: the embeddings have been shifted to links, because the embeddings were eating up too much memory on some people's browsers. 7 John Lee Hooker/George Thorogood, One Bourbon, One Scotch,…
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Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Internet Advertising Company to Fund Itself With Advertising New York - July 4, 2009 - Word leader in being a new company engaged in ways of bringing…
Never too old to learn
I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…
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Derek Jeter’s Tailor in trouble with the law
The story is confusing, but Derek Jeter's tailor is having legal difficulties. Either Ramchandani, who is the tailor, or one of his ex-pupils is having immigration troubles. Judging by the…