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  1. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    How’d that get by ’em? That’s downright embarrassing.
  2. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    An ad for Thursday Boots popped up when I logged in a couple minutes ago. A customer testimonial, saying that after three years he still wears his Thursday boots every week! Sorry, but as a person with a pair of Redwings he bought new in 1974, and which he still wears while shoveling snow...
  3. tonyb

    The Mandela Effect

    What with the brouhaha over the prospect of putting Sojourner Truth’s likeness on our currency, the new First Ladies series has gone essentially unnoticed. Witness the new Barbara Bush $1 bill.
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    My Dear Old Ma — married at 17, widowed with three babies at 21 — has strongly identified as a person who has done for herself all her adult life and even before that. So she’s more than a little prideful, which is creating a challenge for my sister and me in getting her to accept the help...
  5. tonyb

    Today in History

    1919 — Anita O’Day is born.
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … the guy hawking Medicare supplement plans on TV is younger than you.
  8. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    You know how some people regret not finishing that degree or dumping that nice boy she had been seeing for the muscled-up bad boy with the sports car? Among my regrets is not snapping up the stuff that used to go for pennies at garage sales and thrift stores which is now selling for a whole...
  9. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    Gotta like Susan Page's bookshelf backdrop. Her shelves are like mine -- as many books as can fit shelved vertically, and on top of them others laid horizontally. And many of them paperbacks. EDIT: And same for Bill Kristol.
  10. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    Sounds like Chateau Liz is a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Doubtful it would ever be confused for anywhere else. That’s true of our once-generic suburban rambler, especially on stepping inside. The things we surround ourselves with matters. Does to me, anyways.
  11. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    The New Yorker still has real talent in its stable (Jane Mayer and Masha Gessen, notably). But it still ain’t what it used to be. I take the Atlantic as well. (George Packer bolted the NYer for the Atlantic because, as he put it, Remnick and company weren’t much interested in the stories he...
  13. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    I keep plastic tubs filled with the print publications in which my byline appears, or to which I contributed content anonymously. Those tubs are in the garage, along with like containers holding Christmas ornaments and other collections of miscellany that holds enough sentimental value to me...
  14. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    Oh yeah! The bookshelf backdrop is pretty much de rigueur these days. The most amusing are the ones with the talking heads’ own books prominently displayed with the covers facing out.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Dead car battery. AAA en route.
  16. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    Those are the kinds of books stagers will always covet, I’d bet. The majority of mine are paperbacks and trade paperbacks. Some, a bookseller friend tells me, are now worth considerably more than I paid for them, lo those many years ago. And some ain’t worth diddly. My art books, scores of...
  17. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    Because I’ve subscribed to trade journals I often find slickly produced catalogs for high-end interior furnishings in my mailbox. I won’t be buying a thing featured in any of those catalogs, but the pictures are pretty.
  19. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    I can’t say I’m personally familiar, but I’m confident that interior decorators and window dressers and real-estate stagers and the like have their go-to sources for books. As to “staged” books … WTF is this current fashion of shelving books SPINES IN? A couple-three years ago covering books...
  20. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    Friends in the used bookselling biz, who were going great guns 25 years ago, have seen technologies and changing habits conspire against them. One friend who had three stores back then is down to one, and the other shut down his (and his woman friend’s) retail space quite some time ago and has...
  21. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    By the way, I see that old magazines are now selling for quite a bit more than I paid for mine.
  22. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    I have no interest in examining what dark psychological forces have me holding onto books (and old magazines and the like) my rational mind knows I’ll very likely never read again, which take up space that could be put to better(?) uses, books that have been a major PITA to move on the three...
  23. tonyb

    Life, or Look?

    Somehow I can’t see clutter in books, no matter how haphazardly stacked. Still, though, I acknowledge that visitors to my place just might.

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