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Huckleberry tries to pull the rug over me ... er, him.

Bagheera assumes the bread loaf position—one of the mandatories in the Kitty Olympiad.

<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19mini.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">…; is Mark Bittman's third collection of 101 no-hassle dishes. These aren't gimmicks&mdash;they're good food designed to be made in under 20 minutes (frequently <I>much</I> under), using foods you might have around the house. (Over the years, I've discovered that a little prep at the shopping stage guarantees that you'll have the ingredients to make good food fast.)

I spent a part of this morning sitting in the warm lobby of 10 Exchange Place in downtown Jersey City, waiting for FedEx to open. I had some gear to return. While I waited, I decided to listen to music. I undid the two front latches on my black canvas bag. From one pocket, I pulled out <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/052407eliminate/">the Red Wine Audio iMod</a>, from the other I removed <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/030107shure/">the Shure SE310 earphones</a>.

Back when I worked at the lower Broadway Tower Records, those crazy cut-ups in the Classical Annex culled the stupidest, most cheesecakey covers from the used bins and covered a wall-of-shame in the count-out room with them.

I'm a huge fan of Martin Puryear's sculpture, having discovered it at a 1987 Hirschhorn retrospective. So I've been <I>meaning</I> to catch up with his current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Arthur C. Danto's <A HREF="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071231/danto">appreciation</a&gt; in <I>The Nation</I> serves not only as a stimulus to hie me hence forthwith, but also as a meditation on MOMA's second-floor atrium.