June 2008
5 posts
Jun 29th
Jun 29th
“We had Blue Nun, which was a terrible wine to sell to people. If there were a Nuremberg trial for selling bad wine, we should have been hanged.” — Jerry Della Femina, musing about advertising in the New York Times Magazine’s feature on Mad Men.
Jun 23rd
Dear Fellow New Yorkers: you know what’s awesome?  Stairs. How I can go down and you can go up. Or vice versa.  At the same time!  They work both ways!  Except when of course those of you going the opposite way as me fan out and make it impossible for me to ascend or descend, depending, ignoring the unspoken urban rule of walking to the right.  So, um, tuck in or with the increased heat and...
Jun 12th
Elevator Goes Up...
I don’t think I’ve adequately griped about the elevators in the building in which at work.  There are two:  they move at the speed of stoned turtles walking through molasses. So, inevitably, in the morning, returning from lunch, or really any given time of day, in the time it takes the elevator to reach the lobby there’s usually a substantial queue formed.  Let’s not...
Jun 6th