claudia's surf city

Cutting to the chase, the Goose is ok after the flooding. Bill went out and checked yesterday, and while the water came well up, it didn...

Calm-a-Mama (and calmababy, calmayourself and etc) is now carried in New England's   Whole Foods stores. Different products (Focus,...

and the skyline keeps changing

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One could write Two went to the Post Office Three dropped the letters in the mail. - Posted using BlogPress from my...

So we were walking up the subway stairs and who should be walking down but famous fotog Ferrato, en route from a radio show (air date to f...

Bubba Richard and Bubba Merrell came to the Big City all the way from Alabama. Well, they aren't really bubbas, they are actually m...

Ok. Well, one former classmate of Hannah's at Hunter did the musical of the year, Hamilton, and the other is the scumbag who buys dr...

98 in its glory Presents to wrap The temperature is still the same as my age, but Christmas is almost here. The evening light—at 4 ...

There are a bunch of links I want to put up. Maybe later today.

The Jewel in the Lotus, August 15, 2015   This is not the Facebook version. I am not telling my faithful readers (a...

House of the Flying Lobster was awash with photographers and their admirers. Chien-Chi sold out his stock—or as much as he was able to ...

Brilliant! And a  samx yrrem to you, too, Bill Dugan!

 The adopted lobster peruses Chien-Chi Chang's new book, Jet Lag, which I helped to edit (the words, that is). Little did Lobster kno...

Sometimes the elevator is sooo slowwww. . .

Twas the first night of Hanukkah and all through 98 People were thinking about what to put on their plate. Toby had made the latkes with...

Fom Time magazine's "office," the Chrismas-ready Freedom Tower and 9/11 memorial. Otra Rubia in one of Time Inc's ...

Miriam and her admirer, back in the day Back in the day, when Miriam was just a slip of a thing in her early twenties, she was already a...

Frankie and Johnny prep the Salami Lobby for the upcoming holidays. Lulu and Milla await Thanksgiving dinner. The holiday tradition...

Eva, Thanksgiving 2007 Eva, Thanksgiving 2015 It's nice to have certain touchstones. Like Eva will do the annual family portrai...