Lack of Imagination

| August 16, 2004

Say what you will, call me a Negative Nelly, but for the life of me I can’t think of any way to possibly construe throwing up at 4 in the morning as a good thing.

Real Class

| August 15, 2004

In the previous note about the passing of Julia Child, I neglected to note that she spent her latter years in my hometown, Santa Barbara. [Montecito, actually, but no one knows where Montecito is.] I can’t tell you exactly where her home was, but then, I haven’t lived there in quite a number of years. […]