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@ MilitantRubberDucky: I can vouch for Hallo Berlin. Good beer, good brat, good volk.

@ MilitantRubberDucky:Nobody goes to Brooklyn anymore—it’s too crowded. (Says the guy from Queens.)

Just coincidentally, I was at Beauty Bar for the first time just this Monday night. It was serviceable and […]

I like this post.

Oh, Virus. Ben was such a good cat. Cassius and I offer our condolences to you and to Ben’s extended family. Take care…, p.v.

@ Chillbear Latrigue: Yes, the book (Spy Who Came into the etc…) is good, too. Haven’t read Tinker, Tailor.

And yes I grew up on Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Len Deighton, John Le Carre: my dad’s bookshelf. […]

That said, “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” is one of my very favorite movies. The definitive LeCarre movie. Says me.

Just in case you’re looking for an Alec Guinness spy movie, that’s not the one you’re looking for.

Side note: “Our Man in Havana” (the movie) should by all rights be dynamite, but it’s waterlogged, every damn scene. Stick to the book.

Any predictions for 2012? I predict a slight rise in the cost of first-class stamps. Also apocalypse and the end of days.

@ Unfun: (I promise to write stuff too. Serious.)

@ Unfun: I think she’s serious.

Virus,
I know you won’t read this, and besides I’ve set this comment will self-destruct in five seconds…

Thank you for creating this site and tending it to it. No person is more generous than one who builds […]

I have glasses and brown hair in Queens. I can’t say that it helps, but it doesn’t seem to hurt either.

Unfun wrote:

I’ll come. But I’m not eating pork.

Every girl I invited to my bar mitzvah said the exact same thing.

Beer, pork, Astoria. I think I’ve just been made an offer I can’t refuse.

I think you jumped the otter with this one.

My first smokie! My first iron lung! I’d like to thank the members of the academy and my team at Endeavor. And Brian Grazer and the whole crew at Imagine. And my mom.

Excellent story.

@ Vaquero: I’ve never heard of either of them, nor Leonard Michaels. I shall track them down.