Category Archives: friends

a wine post

A friend of mine works at a wine shop in Chelsea called “Appellation” which carries mostly organic and biodynamic wine.  Because I’m frequently in the area, I often drop in to see her and pick up a bottle.  I end up getting whatever she recommends because I trust her taste, and it gets me to [...]
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urgenteyextranjero

urgenteyextranjero Originally uploaded by sararyan. What occurred to me when I looked at this photo and its caption (Put your urgent foreign mail into this lion’s mouth) is that the use of AND here could be interpreted either with the distributive or collective reading: does the lion accept mail that is either urgent or foreign? [...]
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this year it’s Max

I’ve been reading On Direct Reference which is an article by Harry Deutsch in Themes from Kaplan. Besides being notable for featuring my friend Max prominently in the examples (along with Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali), the article has been making me think about naming and possible worlds. On Deutsch’s interpretation of Kaplan, before a naming event [...]
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August in Maine

Thanks to knowledgeable houseguests, I now know what the tiny-apple-looking things are in the front yard. Other information acquired includes the correct pronunciation of ‘artisanal’ and how lobsters mate. With aforementioned guests we went down to Somes Pond after dinner and floated on our backs and watched the remnants of a meteor shower in the [...]
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Heinrich’s in NY again…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } NYC Collection, originally uploaded by stamer. …and he has quite an eye for fixtures. I love the subway tile on the wall with its pleasing 2:1 ratio.
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