Observations of a dull day in which highlights include standing in line at a pet store to get pet tags engraved, musings on the fabulous makeover of Alexander Hamilton on the new ten-dollar bill, the recounting of a heart-warming story involving Isaac Bashevis Singer (who won the Nobel Prize for Literature) and Tina Brown (who did not), and the telling of a joke so gut-busting that one must advise the reader to proceed with caution.
