View image Lots of juicy news flowing from the Department of Justice. Thanks to the persistant efforts of the ACLU doing the job of Congress for the American people, the Yoo torture memos were released. Yoo who, you ask?...
Posted in Dakota on April 2, 2008 10:20 PM
View larger image If one does not glue oneself to the Wedding Section of the New York Times of a Sunday morn, one can sometimes find the leisure to view creative projects of another sort. All of us here...
Posted in Dakota on January 27, 2008 07:37 AM
View larger image A woman once told me that she felt that having a big wedding was like buying a BMW, cruising around in it for a week and then driving it off a cliff. I would agree. Even...
Posted in Dakota on June 14, 2007 04:53 PM
View larger image see the frog Okay guys, I know this will be a challenge because it's Sunday morning and you have Frank Rich and the entire wedding section to read too, but you probably won't stumble upon this...
Posted in Dakota on May 20, 2007 06:56 AM
View larger image Ah, an out-of-season white flower. What could that mean? I know, I know, long ago I vowed to give up wedding commentary in favor of the more urgent issues of the day like edgy French philosophy,...
Posted in Dakota on September 20, 2006 08:01 PM
View image This morning I can barely push my door open because of drifted snow. It's a big blizzard , and a photogenic one at that. It's a day to sip hot chai, write, and read the adorable correspondence...
Posted in Dakota on January 23, 2005 08:01 AM
View larger image Did you notice a reference to thought forms in the email from the dedensified yesterday? Unbeknownst to me, I have been riding one with the person who writes Veiled Conceit , a snappy blog devoted entirely...
Posted in Dakota on November 11, 2004 12:05 PM
View larger image For some reason I am manifesting bagpipers, perhaps they are just in season. This, however is my primo bagpiper shot, a piper dining. I did not ask permission, I am sorry to say, but since a...
Posted in Dakota on September 19, 2004 07:55 PM
View larger image Just after my vitriolic commentary on the media, look what popped up in the Section! Ruth Shalit married Henry Robertson Barrett IV , who converted for the occasion. Rabbi Kenneth J. Chasin officiated. Those of us...
Posted in Dakota on September 6, 2004 06:29 PM
View image Although I have only had time to skim the Wedding Section, and I am trying to keep my vow to refocus on the profound, I did gleen a few mentionable tidbits. Deborah Hull and Nathaniel Koren, son...
Posted in Dakota on September 1, 2004 06:54 AM
View larger image This wedding was just too sweet to ignore, although I think I had promised to focus elsewhere. Florenz Greenberg, 74, and Hy Eisman, 77, are the featured couple in the New York Times Wedding Section this...
Posted in Dakota on July 12, 2004 10:12 PM
View image I have a little button that I push occasionally called Web Server Statistics . Actually, if I were to be honest, I push it at least once a day. The thought that someone is reading this thing...
Posted in Dakota on June 29, 2004 05:43 AM
View larger image The large photograph of the featured wedding in the New York Times this week is confusing, to say the least. At first glance, I thought it a double gay marriage, two couples, and an official, or...
Posted in Dakota on June 21, 2004 08:36 PM
View larger image Krista Smith founder of Visible Theater married Michael Quattrone in the New York Times featured wedding this week. The inside story is that she unknowingly struck it rich by loving him for all the right reasons,...
Posted in Dakota on June 14, 2004 03:02 PM
View larger image Oh how I loved this wedding. Linda Tobin, the program director for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee remarried Stephen V. , Dr. Pepper , a research physicist. (We are told he is not amused by...
Posted in Dakota on June 6, 2004 05:25 PM
View larger image Well, finally. You've been very patient - it's actually Wednesday. Featured this week was the renewal-of-vows ceremony between Kirk Douglas and Anne Douglas . They have been married for fifty years, Since they had had a...
Posted in Dakota on June 1, 2004 06:29 AM
View larger image Apologies to the Section. When I had to leisure read it with a fine tooth comb , in the bottom corner of the last page, without a photo , was the wedding of Hillary Goodridge and...
Posted in Dakota on May 25, 2004 06:50 AM
View larger image As I ripped open my Times this morning, in haste, as I have ladies coming for luncheon, and much to cover beforehand, I was thrilled that the Section was featuring a gay union today, given the...
Posted in Dakota on May 23, 2004 07:24 AM
View larger image Eeks -- Lauren Slater, psychologist , journalist, author, mother and mental health consumer has written a new book, "Opening Skinner's Box" . It seems to have enraged the psychological community. I almost missed the whole hubbub...
Posted in Dakota on May 20, 2004 10:33 PM
View larger image Someone who was searching on the web for "les foufous man" landed here yesterday. Goodness. When I googled "les foufous man" many French sites appeared, but I couldn't find a translation for "foufous" in the French-English...
Posted in Dakota on May 16, 2004 07:36 AM
View larger image Here are the highlights from the New York Times Wedding Section this Sunday, so that you can follow the war, the economy and the Bush administration's deceit and arrogance, rather than waste Sunday morning with your...
Posted in Dakota on May 9, 2004 07:31 AM
View larger image I know you're wondering about this week's wedding. Miriam Longchamp and Chris Rowley are the featured couple. She is an ivy-educated, New York corporate lawyer and he is the road manager for Roxy Music based in...
Posted in Dakota on May 2, 2004 10:40 PM
View larger image Woke this morning to vastly improved Web Server Statistics . The last time my readership jumped like this was the introduction of the Dakota Digital Disposable Camera . This time folks were searching for the triple...
Posted in Dakota on April 27, 2004 02:13 PM
View larger image Why I feel compelled to write about this, we will never know. Avoiding sadistic rage, no doubt. Today's New York Times Wedding Section had one or two interesting foufous, which, as it's chronicler, I must reponsibly...
Posted in Dakota on April 25, 2004 10:59 AM
View larger image With a welcome nudge from Underlying Reality, I remembered that I was going to write about the bride with the tatoo. I just threw away her New York Times Wedding Section yesterday, and thought I would...
Posted in Dakota on April 23, 2004 06:23 AM
View image The pineapple is the symbol for hospitality. This particular pineapple adorns an arch at the entrance to the Federal Hill Section of Providence, a yummy neighborhood filled with great Italian restaurants, piercing and tatoo parlors (3 in...
Posted in Dakota on April 23, 2004 06:01 AM
View larger image Today is Sunday. I will read the Wedding section of the New York Times, which I have been compelled to do every Sunday of my adult life. It won't take that long, since it's March. May...
Posted in Dakota on March 14, 2004 06:48 AM