Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on May 27th, 2010
Whatever the attraction to camouflage is, I just don’t see it. Zing! I suppose some people wear camouflage clothing to try to stand out from the crowd. Mix that kind of dizzying logic with a potential love of guns and, well, it makes me a little uneasy. I’m not going to cross to the other [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 25th, 2010
It was a bold move to suggest that the Americano lacked bite. It may have been bolder still to swap the club soda for gin. So when Count Camillo Negroni first asked after this combination at the Hotel Baglioni in 1925, he could hardly have known what he was starting. After all, the Americano was [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 20th, 2010
I’d never been to a Bar Mitzvah before. Yours was the first. I’m not Jewish myself, and I grew up in an Ohio town, homogeneous as Parkay. Only through being your former nanny did I ever get invited to such an event. I didn’t know anyone and sat at a table with your older relatives, [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 17th, 2010
In my family, we admit it: it’s not something we’re ashamed of. In the downstairs bathroom at my parents’ house, there is a magazine rack mounted on the wall, right in front of the toilet, and a pile of Reader’s Digests in a wicker basket on the floor. No one judges you for being in [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 3rd, 2010
I’d like to punch Thomas Paine in the mouth. I’m not a violent person, in fact I often describe myself as a pacifist, but I think a little fist-kiss on the lips would be the best way to thank Mr. Paine for all his common sense. Granted, he didn’t invent the phrase when he used [...]