Relevant: we’ve just finished work on a book that collects classic portraits from the pages of Vanity Fair, along with essays on those portraits, a summary of the history of the magazine, and the following poem. Written by Dorothy Parker about her time as a VF staff writer, the poem is titled “Our Office: [...]
Keeping in mind that I have rightly been accused of being overly interested in the interests of the overly interested, and given my tendency to collect things which may or may not merit collecting (the names of people who have received mail at my address [a long list!], newspapers of religious organizations I have found [...]
I’m working in my blissfully empty-ass office today, Saturday, and as such I’m not paying for my lunch. I ordered sushi from a midtown restaurant called Haru, and the blurb on the front of the menu is so over-the-top broken that I’m not sure how it was ever allowed to have been mass-produced and dropped [...]
