From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Howard Zieff Rocks

by Cathleen Schine on October 28, 2007

Do you remember this poster? You don’t have to be Jewish to like Levy’s rye bread…These posters, using regular people, not models, so witty and so warm, were icons of my youth. So was the Alka-Seltzer commercial, the spicy meat ball one. How many commercials, how many ad campaigns, does one remember with pleasure and

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ZAMPA

by Cathleen Schine on October 16, 2007

I just got home from an evening at Zampa, a new wine bar on 13th Street and 8th that my friends Danny Emerman and Sandro Prosperi have opened. To quote Maggie Smith in Gosford Park, “Yummy!” I wish I lived close enough to have lunch there every day and go back for wine and octopus

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sketchfu, Woody Woodpecker and Mohammed Ali

by Cathleen Schine on October 13, 2007

Thanks to Onegoodbumblebee, one of my favorite sites, I have discovered the best, most satisfying procrastination tool yet–sketchfu! It’s like an online etch-a-sketch in color. Some of the artists are really good. Some are funny. Some, like the one above, are just fun. And you can playback their (or your own) drawing, so that it’s

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slipper

by Cathleen Schine on October 3, 2007

What can I say? Sometimes I surf around looking for pictures of cairn terriers. Here is Wallis Simpson with her cairn, Slipper.

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