It’s been a dismal season for Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (a.k.a. A-Rod) with fielding errors and batting slumps as well as boos from New York fans. Even the newspaper headlines have been seething, asking readers questions like: “Do You Hate This Man?” Boyhood chum and pro-ball player Doug Mientkiewicz quipped in late September: “I…

Thanks so much to VeganLunchBox for introducing me to a fleet of fun, colorful bento box blogs, including CookingCute.com. Imagine sittig down to open a healthy lunch like this! Here‘s where you can buy the actual lunch box.

Oh, why did I start? It feels to me like he’s an old boyfriend I need to look in on occasionally. There he hides, up in New Hampshire, around 87 years old by now, eating meticulously, studying homeopathy, reading The New York Times perhaps, and no doubt hating The New Yorker. J.D. Salinger was in…

Well, I’ve purchased Sting’s newly-released CD of melancholy mandrigals by Renaissance composer John Dowland (1563-1626). It should arrive from Amazon any day. The collection is super lute-y, I hear, and capable of transporting you to 16th-century England in a flash! Amazon reviews are profoundly mixed, however, and some early buyers are “sending out an S.O.S.”…

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