Month: February 2022
What’s Behind Door No. 3, pray tell?
This new piece from San Francisco Gate states that it is now less-expensive to go to Paris than it is to tool around Disneyland in California. So, basically, they’re saying it makes more economic sense to visit a dump than it does to get taken like a chump. Neither option appeals at this time, thank you. Let’s rearrange the playing board. How does New … Read More What’s Behind Door No. 3, pray tell?
Come Back to the Five-and-Dime …
Hard to believe, but on February 22, 1879, an enterprising merchant named Frank Woolworth opened his first namesake “five-and-dime” store amid the wintry streets of Utica, NY, having no clue that his brainchild would, by 1979, form the largest chain of mercantiles on the planet. Vending everything from roasted peanuts to tchotchkes to saltwater taffy to dry goods, Woolworth was about as emblematic an … Read More Come Back to the Five-and-Dime …
Nunsense and Big Screen Dreams
Initially, I was going to write a snarky article about the two nuns in Southern California who embezzled from the private Catholic school they were running in order to go on luxurious gambling vacations together. The old battle-axes robbed working people to the tune of $850,000 by setting up a Very Special Sister Slush Fund to maintain their less than immaculately starched habits. (Ha … Read More Nunsense and Big Screen Dreams
When in doubt, go back to Byzantium
Life currently sucking a lemon? World off its nut? Feelin’ LOW? Get thee hence to Byzantium, or what memories are left of it, via John Julius Norwich’s classic A Short History of Byzantium. That’ll put some starch in your goddamned undergarments. Trust me. Just keep knives away from your tongue and red-hot pokers from your eyes. Also, do not name your son “Constantine” or … Read More When in doubt, go back to Byzantium
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