May 2013
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May 9th
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May 2nd
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April 2013
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It’s Back! Touch-A-Truck Returns To South Slope... →
TAT returns for another year, and the weather’s supposed to be beautiful!  How many ways can you spell “fun”? New vehicles include an Army Humvee and a collection of mini-cars. Plus puppet show, bouncy houses and food trucks. Join us!
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March 2013
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January 2013
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Rating local kid-friendly cafes/restaurants
Scale= 1-5 Differential=how good their lighting is for pulling out white hairs. Steeplechase: A 4. Too much shadow. Great overhead light though, so I’ll give it a 4. Brooklyn Commune: 2. Lighting is much too flattering to be useful for pulling out whites. Connecticut Muffin: That bathroom is so gross and inadequate, who’d want to go in there for anything (except emergencies)? Lark: Hmm. On...
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October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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June 2012
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Jun 10th
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May 2012
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May 20th
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May 8th
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May 4th
April 2012
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Nostalgia
We are getting a new bathroom on the 3rd floor of our house (yes, we got in just before the market went nuts. Hate us if you like.) The contractor/bathroom artisan showed me the tree rings yesterday—layers of wallpaper dating from the 40s (swans, blue background; demure); 60s (regular print of small flowerlike designs in a coral, blue and gray pattern). We’ve tried to improve our house...
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 6th
March 2012
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Dsk, dsk
Sr. Strauss-Kahn might want lawyer with stronger reasoning powers. Or maybe this is the strongest leg he has to stand on (pun completely intended). From Reuters:  In February, Strauss-Kahn was held in custody in Lille for two days for initial questioning in the case. Another of his attorneys, Henri Leclerci, told French radio in December it was not always easy to spot prostitutes when they are...
Mar 27th
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 22nd
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A 3-year old's most important accessory: A library...
My daughter now has one. Green, plastic, shiny, and checkout is by a bar-code scanning system now, not like the nice older women who checked books out for me by hand at the Stewart Manor Library, next to Pellegrini’s Butcher Shop in the shopping strip of the small town next to mine. Mr. Pellegrini made the big time and moved to the North Shore (wonder how many pork chops that took?).  My...
Mar 15th
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Mar 13th
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Mama's Got a Brand New Bag
And I promised myself it wouldn’t get overrun with kid stuff. Like broken crayons, old crumbs, inkstains, or overripe fruit. I paid 185 bucks for it at Century 21 (I wasn’t sure if I’d even keep it; not used to spending that kind of cashola on self.) Anyhow, I’d scouted out similar bags at the downtown Century’s, did my usual web comparisons, and decided to keep it....
Mar 12th
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Mar 3rd
February 2012
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Feb 27th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th