Category: Current Events

Victor!

Julia Child dead at age 91. What a remarkable life! Erik’s tribute is up. I eagerly await his tribute menu. Whenever leg of lamb’s on the menu, I pull out The Way to Cook. I use the mustard rub for the butterflied roast, and use her Scotch Broth recipe for the shank meat and the… Continue reading “Life itself is the proper binge.”

The WaPo (registration required) ran this review of Jimmy Breslin’s book ignorant screed The Church That Forgot Christ in yesterday’s Book World. I am astonished that this review even made it in the paper, given the WaPo’s editorial policies, but I’m so tickled to see it. The reviewer, Kenneth Woodward, takes Breslin to school in… Continue reading Speaking of lazy “journalists”…

Another lost New Yorker, it seems.

Tampa Bay Lighting wins Stanley Cup

Good-bye, Mr President.

Man lives by bread alone, and the ultimate source of bread is the baker’s van: peace matters more than honour and can be preserved by jeering at colonels and reading newspapers. Sometimes I think this phrase is the perfect summary of the last ten to twenty years. Around here, the Memorial Day remembrances were a… Continue reading Now and then

Ella Gunderson became frustrated trying to find something fashionable — yet modest — in a world where she seems to be surrounded by low-riding jeans and tight, revealing tops. So she penned a letter. “Dear Nordstrom,” she wrote. “I am an eleven-year-old girl who has tried shopping at your store for clothes (in particular jeans),… Continue reading Pre-teen Girl to Nordstrom: Choices, please