July 2008
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Possible New Way to Learn Things
Seen at car wash in Woodland Hills, CA. Subjects included American History, Biology, and Chemistry.
Going-Away Announcements
Retirement and going-away announcements are an underacknowledged folk-art form, characterized by incoherent design elements, maudlin sentiment, clip-art infestation, and nautical metaphors. For example, here is the flyer someone made for my friend Kristen’s imminent departure to Michigan (she is a reader and very occasional commenter on this blog). While a good example of the genre, […]
More New York Discoveries
My brother Paul has an unusual coffee mug in his house. He said our mother gave it to him, one of the many “drug company” gifts that have been bestowed upon us over the years. But this one was something I’ve never seen before: So we have here a three-handled coffee mug. Aranesp, by the […]
Exclusively for Baseball Fans of a Certain Age
Every day I ride the PATH train. Recently, we’ve been encouraged to begin using the new SmartLink card, which you simply tap at the turnstile to go through. Hey, I’m an early adopter, so I got the card. And now they’re encouraging us to register our cards online. This allows you to automatically refill your […]
Jack Silbert, curator