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All my "top-shelf" experiences with Champagne were not on my own dime. Most were at a recurring New Year's dinner hosted by a very nice but stereotypically effete New York surgeon. DP from a few choice years, one of the A-list Krugs, and (my favorite) Veuve Clicquot. There's a magical point at...

I've ordered pipes, tobacco, and cases of those fluffy tail pipecleaners from WV Smokeshop... it's been a while, but they were on the square when I dealt with 'em. The dead last place I could find Edgeworth. Site is a little rinky-dink, admittedly. A favorite business of the much-missed...

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Nobody who's slept with Sean Penn should be trusted to tell you what to put in your body.

PT Ken is dearly missed on this side. Generous not only with material things, but generous of spirit. A man who believed it was more important to be kind than right, so long as no one was in harm's way. That is a rare mark for the world as a whole, and rarer still for the internet.

Been meaning to post pics of what Santa left me, but circumstances have not allowed, so I will attempt to justify my MFA by "painting a picture with words." Inside the package that greeted me on the porch, swaddled snugly as the eponymous Reason for the Season, was a beautiful billiard pipe...

That's out of WNPR out here in CT! I've had friends who were guests on that show, no less. Colin's a pretty cool guy, I have heard. And it's not just NPR promoting pipes, but doing it right in the middle of Pledge Week. They know what the big spenders like.

Santa got confused and put me on the Very Very Ridiculously Good list this year. Pics to follow.

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They say you never hear the one that gets you...

Happy Thanksgiving, O my brothers and sisters. Wish I could be more active more often 'round here, but I am ever thankful for the BoB, and thankful for the good things that keep me otherwie occupied, especially this wonderful family. Work kept me from taveling to Maine with wife and kiddo...

The Rev is kind of a big deal around here. He has many leather-bound books and his apartment smells of rich mahogany.

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Feliz cumple, my friend!

This is one of favorite things on film ever.

This. Moore died in 1863, so without a special estate arrangement his heirs lost copyright protection some time ago. If they did retain any rights, any changes went through his estate. This happens all the time in for-profit publishing. Writers are the artists; editors and publishers are the...

South of KevinM, a few miles from the shore, two bells and all is well. Never lost utilities of any sort. A piece of tin facing on one of our dormers went flying who-knows-where, and gutters that were already crap are still crap. Otherwise, no harm, no foul. Our luck has been good. The power...

My pal who works at Electric Boat said that it's the first time in his tenure (12 years or so) they've closed the sub yard. Why you'd need to close the sub yard, I'll never know. What's going to happen, the subs get more underwater? 8) (Yeah, yeah, I know about all the fissile material...

Feeling pretty prepared here on the CT shore (we are inland and on high ground, but the city abuts the shore.) I am still nonplused by my employer's reluctance to decisively cancel anything. In fairness, it is a large medical organization, but I am at best a beancounter (and on most days, a...

Why thank you for the warm wishes, my friends! Today was very nice indeed--but Fridays are the one day that everyone works. For the best anyhow; it gave me some time to batten down the hatches. Tomorrow will have a quiet little family celebration, and for a less quiet time there's a Halloween...