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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
I read Nick Paumgarten on the Latitude Margaritaville retirement communities (March 28). Paumgarten mentions (p. 62) that he had seen hardly any people of color in the community (that was all he mentioned). As I was reading the article, I was thinking of that, also that the population was overwhelmingly white, affluent, heterosexual, and married. There was no talk of widows husband hunting.
I also read Calvin Trillin on tuxedos. As a matter of fact, for a couple of years, I have been doing just what Trillin mentioned: I put the cuff links in the cuffs before I put the shirt on.
Front-Ranger:
Yes, that was a fun read.
Front-Ranger:
I put the March 14 issue down mid-article and it got buried by other reading. Today I took it up again and read the last of the article. I thought it was about people who go around looking for sheds and photographing them. That seems very Monty Python. Then, I looked back to the first page and "Thrill of the Hunt" by Abe Streep is about people who collect antlers that deer and elk have shed. They call them sheds. :laugh:
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 14, 2022, 06:42:46 pm ---I put the March 14 issue down mid-article and it got buried by other reading. Today I took it up again and read the last of the article. I thought it was about people who go around looking for sheds and photographing them. That seems very Monty Python. Then, I looked back to the first page and "Thrill of the Hunt" by Abe Streep is about people who collect antlers that deer and elk have shed. They call them sheds. :laugh:
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Weird, I was just thinking about that but not in relation to the New Yorker, I don't think. I came across something about how Jackson, WY, has big deer-antler arches in its town square. I vaguely remember that from when my parents used to take the family on vacations in Jackson.
Jeff Wrangler:
I thought it was pretty funny that one of Lauren Collins's sources for her article on the French serial killer expert (April 11) was Xaviera Hollander, "a former sex worker who now runs a bed-and-breakfast in Amsterdam." Collins quotes Hollander as referring to herself as "the happy hooker," but I remember she gained some notoriety when she published a memoir called The Happy Hooker.
Actually, I think it's pretty funny that a formerly notorious former sex worker now runs a bed-and-breakfast in Amsterdam, or anywhere, for that matter. ;D
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