Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 35

I was preparing a nice long riff on "things that are warm" when my wife leaned over to check up on what I was doing.

"They're in San Rafael?" She asked. "What do they know about 'warm things?'" Good question. She's lived in Wisconsin, in a house on the North Sea and in the Bay Area, where Warm Things sell their goods, so she know whereof she speaks. The goose down robe looks nice for the sort of morning when the windows were left open on a night when the temp dropped down to the upper forties and you need something to hang out in while the coffee perks, not the sort of morning where you have to dig through two feet of snow to get the paper and the air outside is so cold that the air gets sucked out of your lungs and your eyes tear up and freeze shut.

Goose Down Robe - $89 in 1996, $89 in 2006.

The Duke Diet and Fitness Center is having a craft workshop next month. If you are knitting, then your hands are busy and you can't eat that big turkey pie. Knitting is a stress reliever as well, unless you are knitting while looking at that big turkey pie you can't eat cause your hands are full.

I couldn't find a site for Locators Incorporated, but this site came up as a google hit. It's a list of repair and replacement firms that is maintained by the US Coast Guard/US Dept. of Homeland Security. As near as I can figure, if you go off to sea with a set of Hummels, and they get damaged beyond repair (as certified by experts such as Locators Incorporated) you can put in a claim for replacement through the US Coast Guard/US Dept. of Homeland Security. Isn't that great? This is exactly why I am doing this. How would I ever have found this out without a stack of ten year old New Yorker ads? I love discovering this stuff.

Club Voyages is still listed in the Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism's Tourist Information Page, but the site is down at the moment. I suppose after all the Coast Guard/Hummel excitement the internet decided I needed a little time out.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 31

The NordicTracks that you can get today look like you can fly them around canyons shooting laser beams at alien invaders. At the very least they all have televisions built in. Now look at how minimalistic they were in 1996:


Hey NordicTrack designers, here's an idea for you: Eventually these will all be laundry racks anyhow, why not include hangers and so on.

The Bose Wave radio has now been upgraded to the Wave II. It looks the same, and check it out -- it costs the same too.

See that business in the bottom right corner? That's how people used to order things before the internet. What you did was cut the corner out of the page of the magazine, fill in your name and address, then call the toll free number. After you tell the nice person who answers the toll free call that you want a spiffy new Bose Wave Radio, they will want to know where you live so they can send it to you. Because you have done your research ahead of time, you can tell the nice phone person your address right away instead of running out into your front yard to read the number off the front of your house.

The Comic Strip, Part 32 - Now if there's a smile on my face, it's only there trying to fool the public

"Red Nose of Courage" - April 9, 1992

Another political one. This time the focus is on John Major.


Turns out that he was moonlighting as a circus clown.


It is nice to see a move away from the "Hollywood" version of political figures and actually work to capture them. The scenes where young John Major has been banished from the circus and finds his way to an office supply store is both completely absurd but somehow rings completely true, much like the action hero histrionics ring totally (and deliberately) false.

In the meantime, let me see if I've got this straight: At the time this was taking place, the opposition leader was Neil Kinnock. In this version, as the two opponents are supposed to fall in love, the opposition leader has to be turned into a woman. The easy way out would be to just call this character "Nellie Kinnock." But what they do instead is take Kinnock's wife, Glenys Kinnock (who was also a Member of Parliament at the time), and make her the unmarried leader of the Labour Party who then gets to have an affair with John Major. I'll bet the Kinnock house was a happy one the night this was broadcast.

With the disgraced Enron executives chased safely away, the mother bear sounds the "all clear" signal and the cubs climb down out of the tree.

I am going to miss the Enron trial, only because I love listening to reporter Wade Goodwyn. He sounds exactly like the guy who did the narration for those old Disney nature documentaries.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 29

Twelve pages? Take a look. It's a town. There are homes for sale, banks for your money, clubs to join and sights to see. There is a school for your children that "seeks to foster scholarship, creativity, self-discipline, independent thinking, and the development of a strong moral character needed for living in a culturally diverse world. " If you try to leave, you will be attacked by a jewel-encrusted weather balloon. Be seeing you.

Flights on the Concorde! At last, an ad that is completely anachronistic. I ran the itinerary for this package in expedia (presuming the start and stop to be New York) and came up with this itinerary:

Leg one - Sat 1-Jul
7:10 am Depart New York (LGA)
Connect in Salt Lake City (SLC)
Arrive Honolulu (HNL) 2:00 pm
Duration: 12hr 50mn

Leg two - Mon 3-Jul
12:35 am Depart Honolulu (HNL)
Connect in Nadi (NAN)
Arrive Auckland (AKL) 11:45 am +1 day
Duration: 13hr 10mn

Leg three - Wed 5-Jul
1:25 pm Depart Auckland (AKL)
Arrive Sydney (SYD) 2:50 pm
Duration: 3hr 25mn

Leg four - Fri 7-Jul
10:45 am Depart Sydney (SYD)
Connect in Hong Kong (HKG)
Arrive Beijing (PEK) 10:50 pm
Duration: 14hr 5mn

Leg five - Sun 9-Jul
8:00 am Depart Beijing (PEK)
Arrive Hong Kong (HKG) 11:25 am
Duration: 3hr 25mn

Leg six - Tue 11-Jul
6:05 pm Depart Hong Kong (HKG)
Arrive Delhi (DEL) 9:00 pm
Duration: 5hr 25mn

Leg seven - Thu 13-Jul
8:30 pm Depart Delhi (DEL)
Connect in Mumbai (Bombay) (BOM), Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta Intl.)
Arrive Mombasa (MBA) 8:45 am +1 day
Duration: 14hr 45mn

Leg eight - Sat 15-Jul
9:45 am Depart Mombasa (MBA)
Arrive London (LHR) 5:10 pm
Duration: 9hr 25mn

Leg nine - Mon 17-Jul
10:30 am Depart London (LGW)
Connect in Charlotte (CLT)
Arrive New York (LGA) 5:40 pm
Duration: 12hr 10mn

Grand total for one person airfare - $8747.14

I imagine that the Concorde trip included hotels (and that there would be a few more nights in them rather than in transit) but still - over $50 grand! This must have been a fun trip.

Inca Floats won't really sell you the Galapagos to give to your Valentine. But they'll take you there. "Come swim with playful sea lion pups, try to keep up with a penguin chasing a fishy dessert, tromp among giant tortoises in tall green grass, and quietly mosey past a motley crew of marine iguanas." It's not just for Valentines either. They have a wedding registry, and they think it will make for a fun "big birthday surprise." I think after the long plane trip and boat ride, the birthday person will start to suspect.

The Traveler's Guide looks like one of those little things that someone chugged out of their guest room as a labor of love and then collapsed when this naughty old internets showed up. I can find no sign of MGP Inc. or their Guide. I hope they are all right.

The Comic Strip, Part 31 - Gettin' ecstatic an' sorta dramatic

"The Pope Must Die" - Feature Film 1991

First of all, this is another film not in the box. It is also not on DVD. I picked it up on VHS for $4.

The things I do.

Secondly, I have to make mention of the title. When the film was released in America, it was felt that the title was offensive. So it had to be changed. Unfortunately, there was not enough budget to actually come up with the layout for a new title, so a "t" was clumsily added to the end of the title, creating "The Pope Must Diet."

So even before we hit "play" we're down a few notches, expectation-wise.

The film itself is a mostly innocuous vanilla pudding cup of a comedy. We get the over the top bad guys - Paul Bartel is excellent in a typical Paul Bartel sort of role, Herbert Lom is there doing his thing - he's like the uncle who is great to see at family gatherings once or twice a year, but you don't want to be stuck in a car with for five hours, Ade Edmonson is ... well.. there. I'm sure he was paid for showing up. Good for him.

On the side of the angels (to coin a phrase) is Robbie Coltrane. One of the weird things about the concept of this film is that Coltrane's "Pope Dave" is an archetypical innocent, but in order for the plot to advance he has to be more worldly. This results in the character swooping back and forth from oblivious naif to self-aware rebel, like his main tragic flaw is an inability to get his Paxil dosage timed. He does play an impressive guitar (or at least he's good at miming Jeff Beck, who is listed as Original Music by) and three cheers for not having a climactic "Hey Vatican, Let's Rock!" concert on the Piazza San Pietro.

Which brings me to another point. I always wonder about the amount of comedy that comes at the expense of Catholicism, and how much of it is deserved. The bishops and cardinals all have these groovy crucifix cell-phones (In 1991 you had to be majorly blinged to have a cell phone). I took a look to see if such things now exist. It seems that the only reason they don't is that the modification will make the phone too big.

Tomorrow is Towel Day

I took down the banner because it really didn't look all that good here.

Have a link instead.

More satellite fun

Windows Live Local has just had a major update of the UK. Apart from some interface troubles (Mac Users will find that Firefox is the best browser choice). The image below is for a friend who could use a smile.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 28

Just when I think I've given up on trying to compare prices, here's one smack in front of me big as life. So far as I can see, The Drake is still a Swissotel, but it is not mentioned on their website. They may have just switched hands. Or perhaps Swissotel is ashamed to admit that they own the New York Drake. In any event, the rate now starts at $225 per night.

Harvard has a graduate program in Landscape architecture! Next time you see someone reading Proust and sipping a martini while doing laps on their Husqvarna, you'll know their backstory.

"Let's Go To Vermont!" Gosh yes! Lets! The 1996 ad for The Mountain Top Inn looks quite simple and perhaps rustic. Have a look at their website now. The place is like a machine.

The Celebration Bowl pictured in this ad celebrates the virtues of John and Peggy. These include "Honor" and "Trust." Two others that I can't make out for sure could be "Peace" and perhaps "love." The Celebration Bowl website lets us know that John and Peggy are doing well. Looking at the page that offers suggestions for inscriptions, we see that they got married on June 22, 2002, the same day that they celebrated 25 years together. Peggy went on to become the Teacher of the Year for 2003, and retired from her moonlight job at Cloverdale Ice Cream after 20 years. John, meanwhile, was the PTA President from 1998 to 2003 and won the Pacific Rim Poetry Award. I'll bet their house is full to the rafters with Celebration Bowls and every time a houseguest sneezes, John and Peggy turn white from stress.

dit dit dah dit

Sunday's Fox Trot involved Jason tapdancing a secret message in morse code. I sat down and figured it out. Here it is by panel:

so me da yi wi ll ru

le yo ua ll

I sometimes complain about my lack of free time.

Enjoy some animated engravings

This site is just a big bunch of gorgeous.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 25

El Castillo San Felipe del Morro is one of those places where you look at a map of the area, and you know exactly where the fort is going to go. Take a look on Google Maps, you'll see what I mean. No wonder the thing has been there since 1539. You can learn more from Wikipedia, the Puerto Rican Tourism Company and the National Park Service. It looks like a fascinating place.

However, from the ad copy, I am worried that it might drive me insane.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 23

One of the things that surprised me about the 2006 version of this trip was that there was only one ad for liquor.

So here's Macallan Scotch.

I like this weird tasting that they are crowing about. First off it was "conducted by the Sunday Times." Now, in a magazine that is focused on New York, that infers the New York Times. But this is a UK product, so perhaps the London Times? They don't say. It could be the Bryan (Ohio) Times. Or perhaps the Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News.

I particularly like how even though they seem to have whomped the competition with their "Excellence Quotient" they need to hike the numbers to 100% by telling us that the color of the whiskey is worth a score of 6.22%.

Let's suppose that the runner up (which scored 62.8%) was soooooo beautiful that it scored 37.3%. In your mathematically tenuous face, Macallan.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 20

I always mix up "Sylvia" with "Who is Sylvia."

One is a comedy about a man and his love for his dog. The other is a comedy about a man and his love for his goat.

The one with the dog is the one that you want to take grandma to.

In the second ad we have a drama about a man and his love for a swan.

I'm sensing some sort of theme here.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 19

This is an ad for a Lifetime movie. This article on Wikipedia gives us the character archetypes that are purported to always appear in Lifetime movies:

• Good Girl - this is the innocent girl and usually the protagonist of the story who falls victim to one of the following situations: kidnapped, murdered, corrupted by drugs and/or alcohol, gets raped, becomes a gambler, becomes a prostitute, is being stalked, gets pregnant, or a variation of these themes.
• Bad Molly - the "friend" who corrupts the Good Girl and urges her to have sex, drink, stay out late, lie, etc. The Bad Molly is sneaky, manipulative and is usually at odds with the Good Girl's Mom.
• Good Molly - the friend that tries to help the Good Girl but is ignored in the beginning and middle of the movie. (see Good Boy)
• Bad Boy - the cool older guy in high school who has sex with the good girl, rapes her, gets her pregnant, stalks her, threatens her or a variation of the above. But in the beginning he seems really nice, she really likes him and he always cons the parents. This type of character is meant to caution female viewers on the less than honorable intentions of many high school boys.
• Good Boy - the friend or lame dude who tries to help the Good Girl but is ignored until the end of the movie when the heroine realizes he is the one for her. In some extremely clever Lifetime movies the Good Boy is secretly the Mean Man (see below), only to be revealed as such after the heroine's epiphany and right before the end of the story.
• Mean Man - this character is a completely scary guy in appearance and behavior. He plays the part of the kidnapper, stalker or murderer, usually in a plaid or flannel shirt. Lifetime has some of the best shady villains.
• Weak Mom - the mother who can't control her kids because she is naive or has her own issues going on.
• Dad - Yells a lot, tries to control his daughter's antics. But sometimes he can be involved in something shady himself.
• Mistress - Has an affair with husband and causes drama at home. Aka "Home Wrecker".
• Religious Mom - Preaches religion but does not realize her daughter breaks most of the 10 commandments on a weekly basis. This role was played perfectly in She's Too Young.
• Younger Sister - she looks up to the Good Girl but is slowly becoming a Bad Molly because of the drama she is influenced by.
• The Black Friend - the protagonists of most Lifetime Movies are often Caucasian, with too few powerful black characters. However, it is typical for the white protagnist to have a black best friend who is very wise. Little is given about the black friend's life, aside from her willingness to help the protagonist. There also are few powerful characters outside the U.S.

Now, let's go to the ad.


From the IMDB we see that the synopsis is this:

A woman pits herself against her husband and his Ku Klux Klan member friends when she learns that they are planning an attack against her black maid and her husband.

Must have made for an awkward laundry day.

This film is currently unavailable on video, and was on basic cable in 1996. I've pretty much given up on totaling this up, if you haven't guessed.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 15

"Vanity? Hardly. More a choice between anonymity and relationship."

I have absolutely no clue what that is supposed to mean.

The Cloister is still there and it has a lovely website. The site opens on a picture of a young couple sitting on the beach, watching their toddler run off into the ocean. The images alternate between the present and the late 1920's. I have to say it is a handsome looking place.

From the 1996 ad you would have no idea that it is a handsome place. It looks like a swamp with a golf course going through it. I can't imagine who this ad would appeal to beyond the retired banker who is looking for someplace to take the girl from the secretarial pool who is starting on the track to be promoted to trophy wife. So anonymity and relationship simultaneously, to be honest.

I think I much prefer the image they have for themselves now.

One night at the Cloister, 2006 - $875.00 ("Rates and availability change often." Price does not include taxes, service charges and tips for the maid and butler. Yes, you get a butler.)

Today, everyone is Norwegian!

"I was a Thor guy when I was a kid. Thor ... I remember resonating, probably because I was a Norse god in my past. I must admit."

-Kelsey Grammer

Looking for a reason to have a parade today?

"The Kingdom of Norway is a free, independent, indivisible and inalienable Realm. Its form of government is a limited and hereditary monarchy."


I'm sort of a day early, but the 17th has already started in Norway, so I think I'm safe.

Let's visit New York

This brochure was in a packet of stuff that belonged to my great-grandfather.

He picked up this brochure in 1912, when the Flatiron Building was only ten years old. I have no idea if he actually went on the tour.


The reason why I am putting this up now is in response to a post on BoingBoing about "poorism" -- tours of slums. The BoingBoing post links to an article that shows a number of tours that are presented as learning experiences ("It's not like we want to peer at them in the zoo, like animals, but the point of the tour is to experience their lives.").

This tour offers no such pretense. I'm sure that the "Bowery Boy and his 'Goil'" stopped "enjoying life in their characteristic way" and took the opportunity to hurl some epithets or perhaps a rock or two at the gawkers on this gigantic contraption.

Sometime when I have a lot more time on my hands, I might sit down with all of the points of interest to see if I can plot out the path that this tour took. Please don't think it will be any time soon.

Before the internet there were no worries about music sharing

To be frank, I'm just testing the coding to see if this works:



This was Bow Wow Wow's first single. Notice how hard Annabella works to get the syncopations right. She improved as the years went on.

I notice that they are going to play a double bill with the Go-Go's next month. I'd be interested to see what sort of crowd shows up.

The Comic Strip, Interlude - I am rewarded for my attention

So I am poking through my links and I see this post on Cool Hunting.

Ordinarily, my reaction to this post is "Oh." And then I forget about it.

But I catch this bit: "The 20-year-old daughter of actor and sometime booze-hound Keith Allen," and I pause. I know that name, thanks to this project. This alone inspires me to have a look.

Interesting stuff. Hard-edged lounge with a smirk - I'm interested in seeing what she's up to in five years or so.

It looks like her album is coming out in July.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 11

Two of these shows are still running on Broadway. I'll leave it to you to find out which ones.

Tickets to one of these shows on Broadway (2006) - $60.00 average

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 9

Now this takes me back:


When that version came out, it was an event. Everyone was eating it up like candy. I was taking a class in the history of Regency England, and let me tell you, when the professor brought in the videos, there was joy.

So lets have a bit of compare and contrast:

I've yet to see this new version, but that's okay, we're talking about the ads.

Outside, backlit by the sun, Elizabeth Bennet in the foreground looking confident, Mr. Darcy behind her looking glummish. The 1995 P&P feels like a cool mid April - and look at that chemistry. Mr. Darcy looks like he is trying to blow Elizabeth's skull apart with his dangerous psychic mind skillz, while Elizabeth grins smugly and contently with the knowledge that such heinous brain powers don't actually exist. The 2005 is late June and muggy, and this pair look like they get along. In fact, it looks like they may have just finished a session of getting along and once Darcy gets his breath back, they are going to go diving under a bush and get along some more.

Both are out on DVD, and I'm sure that the history class syllabus is all the better for it.

From the world of baseball

A high school kid from Illinois has got control of the knuckleball. For the time being.

Meanwhile, "rambling, slurred" Rick Sutcliffe and Bill Murray visit the San Diego Padres' clubhouse:

When Sutcliffe introduced Murray to infielder Mark Bellhorn, who was seated, the actor hugged the infielder tightly and the two tumbled onto the ground.

"You were a Cub!" Murray said.

How, um, sweet

Dateline 1982: The Pac-Man theme wedding.

Enjoy a cool photo

This is an HDR photo. In a nutshell, HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a process where multiple exposures are taken of the same image and then composited.

In this example, ten shots were taken, but one was slightly different.


Photograph by Michael Paul

Johnny the Horse was kicked to death. He died for entertainment.

I was poking through my CD's and came across a stack of Madness. "Johnny the Horse" was the first single off of their 1999 comeback attempt, Wonderful. I'm always moved by the contrast between the upbeat tune and the bleak subject matter and I've always suspected that it was written in response to an actual incident, just due to the power of it, but I've never thought to do the research to find out.

From an interview with Cathal Smyth:

The idea for the song came from an incident I had with two down and outs who used to sit drinking on a wall at the end of my street. They had become a fixture of my street for some four to five years and I had taken to stopping and talking with them as they were pleasant and I like to think that all of us should have more time to stop and talk. One was an Irish ex-boxer who was a gentle giant and a little punch drunk the other was Scottish and very quiet. Well one day I saw Dempsey in a state of distress, he was crying and full of grief. I asked him what was the matter and could I help and he told me that his Scottish friend had slept in a derelict building and some thugs had come upon him and killed him. I was moved to write about this and try to point out that there are so many who disappear onto the streets and they are forgotten or ignored....

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 8

The Surry Hotel is now an Affinia Hotel. I've never heard of Affinia Hotels, but that shouldn't be a strike against it. It looks quite swank.

And they take doggies! In a very swank sort of way! I like that.

Unfortunately, the "famed Restaurant Daniel" is no longer there. In its place is the Cafe Boulud, run by "Renowned Chef Daniel Boulud." I have no idea that the Daniel who ran the "famed Restaurant Daniel" is the same Daniel Boulud, but for some reason I hope it is.

If I had an updated ACCESS New York Restaurant Guide handy, I could look it up, but so far as I can see, it hasn't been updated since 97/98. The plain old ACCESS New York guide should do fine in a pinch.

A night in the Surrey Hotel - $500 average (dog spa appointments start at $15).

ACCESS New York Restaurant Guide 97/98 - $0.33 used on Amazon.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 7

I've been pondering this ad for the last couple of days.

With the right amount of coffee and indignation I could probably go on forever about the days when a six CD changer was a good purchase and people would drop two sawbucks on a CD, have change for a coffee and be happy in the knowledge that the CD they picked up would actually play on everything that they owned that had a CD slot (and wouldn't blow the thing up).... etcetera etcetera.

But enough of that. There's plenty of that on the web.

Take a look at that wall. That wall is nuts.


Just those little hangy lights over the dinky speakers - wiring those things up ain't cheap. And then we get to those indentations! Forget it. It took me six years of workers to go from explanation to completion for "I would like the roof to no longer leak and drip water on the head of my bed when it rains." I can't imagine how long "I would like a sequence of symmetrical indentations to draw contrast to the built in shelves that you will build to hold my CD player and their impossibly dinky speakers" could take.

I'm sure they sound nice, and the enormous remote is probably a great help as well.

Bose "Lifestyle" entertainment system circa 1996 - still goes for around $500 on eBay.

Bose "Lifestyle" entertainment system circa 2006 - As much as $4,000. (They now play DVD's, mp3 disks, and has a music storage playback hard drive).

This post is like a plaintive nocturne

From The Baltic Times, (Which covers Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) we get a handy list of "10 things not to say to a Latvian woman."

They include the obvious:

9) "Oh man, you still live with your parents!"

The subtle:

7) "You Russian girls are really sexy." That one speaks for itself.
8) "You kind of remind me of that girl in t.A.T.u." See point (7).

(Get it? They're Latvian, not Russian!)

The obscure:

2) "Your voice is like a plaintive nocturne." She will think you're making fun of her.

The obvious, but for the wrong reasons:

3) "Your melons are very juicy." She will confusedly insist that Latvia doesn't grow melons.

And the telling and culturally loaded:

1) "You are very beautiful." She will only think you're a stupid foreigner if you do.

Also of note is the list of "10 things not to say to a Latvian cop" which has surprisingly little overlap.

Lucas Gives In! Sort of!

The original theatrical versions of the Star Wars trilogy now coming to DVD.

They will be bonus features on the re-release of the "re-mastered" version - so when you go off to buy them, you are, so far as the folks who track sales are concerned, ramping up the stats for the re-masters. Tricky devils.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 5

I infer that between 1996 and today, Renaissance Hotels was purchased by Mariott.

Such is the way of things.

If you go to the Mariott website, you will see that some of their hotels are still designated as "Renaissance Hotels." These particular hotels distinguish themselves from other hotels (including other Mariott Hotels) because of their "distinctive & individualistic style ... a blend of attentive service, expressive decor, luxurious bedding and imaginative dining."

As I've lately been rejecting a few comments from marketing bods who are trying to use blogs to their advantage, I would like to take the opportunity to greet the inevitable visitor from Mariott (or some subsidiary thereof) and request of them this:

Instead of some canned comment about how much you enjoy Mariott Hotels and every one of my readership would benefit from staying in one (which I will reject), perhaps take a moment to explain the difference between a Mariott Hotel and a Renaissance Hotel. I'll approve that, and you'll get your pittance quota. Deal?

One night in the Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa, (Hoover, Alabama) - $189.00

Pem Farnsworth

The first lady of television.

More here.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 4

Here's an ad with a website - and it is still semi-active (it resolves here).


I hope that Sidney Poitier doesn't get sick of conch.

I took a look to see if you can really eat conch. I've never been to The Bahamas. And I am skeptical.

Look! Here are recipes for Conch Burgers and Conch Fritters. Well I'll be darned.

Package deal to Nassau Beach - $534 on Expedia.

Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 3

A Godiva Chocolate ad.

Even though this is ten years old, it looks like it could be printed today. One difference, though. No website. They do have a toll free phone number, which I see from their website is still the same.

So if I were stranded somewhere with a ten year old New Yorker and a phone, I could order up some chocolate. Cool.


36 Piece "Administrative Assistant's Day" Thank You Ballotin - $38.00

I have no idea how much Godiva Chocolates cost ten years ago. I'll update when I find out.