Saturday, August 17, 2013

Plat du jour



I sure am.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Semi-random thoughts

  • Fedex hates me. I firmly believe they looked at a map of the upper east side of Manhattan and said, where can we put our drop boxes so they're all 9 blocks away from Caprice? It's this beautiful semi-circle with Central Park on one side.
  • I received an e-mail asking me to sign a petition directed to a Catholic bishop in Wisconsin. I'm sure he is really going to be swayed by a Jewish atheist from New York. Not. 
  • Today I had my annual bone density scan. Getting strapped into position was serious (if brief) bondage fun.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Plat du jour

Happy anniversary to my glob!

Today is the eighth anniversary of this blog. As of this writing it's had 120,728 visitors! I must be doing something right.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Today's news round-up

Good News

Bad News

Midtown Manhattan in stop-action video

Watch for the Stonehenge sunset.

http://vimeo.com/thevoder/midtown

The end of an era

A few weeks ago the Metropolitan Museum switched from wonderful little metal tags to paper stickers to show you had paid for admission. Today I got this:
 instead of one of these:
I guess my tag collection has come to an end.