Mr. Wrong

I’d swear I used to see this guy distributing literature in Inman Square.

The Passenger

Paris, Voici Paris

A lot of restaurants in Paris bring you a business card along with the check. It makes for a nifty souvenir, and a handy way to remember where you ate. (Like you could ever forget.)

Can’t Stop The World

I’d been intending to add notes about three recipes to the Messing Around The Kitchen page. Unfortunately I waited too long and clean forgot what two of the were. Perils of getting older I guess. From now on I’ll jot these things down.

In The Streets Of Boston

Just to cleanse your palate of that last morbid post, here’s a link to a blog with cool pictures of Boston-That-Was: Shopping Days In Retro Boston.

Down All The Days

I have been advised against reading Atonement. Fair enough – thanks to Mr. Dirda I came across a few more books that I might like to read, which I offer up for comment. They are:

The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth Red Cavalry – Isaac Babel The Box of Delights – John Masefield

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Little Ole Wine Drinker Me

One of my pictures from Paris is now part of the Schmap Paris guide.

Bark At The Moon

I read this New Yorker profile and thought “Maybe I should try one of Ian MacEwan’s books. Perhaps Atonement.” Still later I found myself wondering if I shouldn’t try Ulysses after all. Could it be my dislike of modernism is misplaced?

Scary thoughts – best chased away by organizing something, like my Amazon wishlist (now [...]