Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 39

The Cartwright Hotel has left the Kimpton Group. It has been renovated again and is now owned by Magna Hotels. You know, someday I'm going to stay at one of these hotels. I will certainly impress the concierge with my insider knowledge.

There was an ad for Replacements Ltd. in my 2006 version of this. Their website says that they've been in business for 25 years. So perhaps we'll see them again when I go through the 1986 version. They will be all embarrassed about how the ad shows off their mullet haircut and parachute pants.

Ville et Village has expanded beyond France, adding Italy, Spain and Portugal. I took a look at their current newsletter, which had an article about how staying in a rented house in a foreign countryside can be interesting for kids. "The simple act of exploring a foreign culture can be a huge adventure with children along. Figuring out all the different ways to flush the toilet is great fun." They also saw a trained warthog! I want to see a trained warthog and learn about French toilets. Heck, I just need a vacation.

(My wife adds: perhaps the warthog can flush the toilet! That would be exciting and somehow quite French.)

Discoveries still makes the personalized cartouches, as well as importing all sorts of ancient Egyptish goodies. Always wanted a statue of Anubis to guard the tomato plants? Here's where you go.

When I saw the 2006 ad for Kiawah, I commented that there was nothing on the calendar of events. I looked again. Still nothing. Perhaps when I go on vacation with my traveling circus of toilet-flushing warthogs, we can go there. They're dying for entertainment - I'll rake in the big bucks.