Ins and Outs, Mostly Outs

Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner asks: Would You Fly on an Airplane With No Pilot?. That is, would you fly on a remotely operated airliner?

Called and then showed up at a restaurant Sunday afternoon. Was told in turn by four different people: “definitely open for dinner at 4,” “it’s early, but not a problem,” “I don’t think we’re serving yet, but I’ll check,” (it was no), and “not until five.” C’mon folks, how hard can it be? Maybe they had too many hosts and hostesses and not enough cooks. We went somewhere else.

The photo in the masthead (as this is written) is of my neighbor’s house. Don’t tell him. (It’s the least he could do. He’s left than darn things on all night the last two nights.)

My cockles are still warm from the rock ballet last evening. As my friend Donna said, when she danced you had to be the right size and just so to be in the cast. Now everyone is allowed to perform. Seeing as how it wasn’t exactly the Bolshoi, letting everyone perform is just perfect.

True to form (that’s why I love him) FunctionalAmbivalent found a particularly tacky underwear Christmas gift today.

What I’d really like for Christmas:

  • Someone to wash all my house windows, inside and out.
  • Someone to detail my car.

Jeff Bridges is 57 today, Cassandra Wilson 51, Jay-Z 37, and Tyra Banks 33. Bridges has four Oscar nominations, three for supporting actor and one for leading — Starman.