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At right -- Vox's formatting blew up my face to alarming size, and I couldn't take it.  "Large Bad Picture."  Time to upload a new avatar.  We live in a mad world, I tell you, for that sentence to have any meaning.

What else?  I never thought I would be so afflicted by the long, unannounced New York Review hiatus: it's not like I live or die by John Leonard's effluvium, but the table of contents always matches my state of mind so well. We are screwed— but there are books!  The TLS, with its devout, snarky Tory sense of the longue durée, can't measure up.

What else else?  I was going to post something gloomy, but instead, at the Berkeley Bowl, this was on sale:

Chichy
Chichy

Close-up of that label:

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Chichy2
I am speechless.  It's mineral water.  I guess poor old Vichy had to do something after the war, other than being razed to the ground, but I sure wish they'd stock the Homage to Catalonia water instead.  I mean, the Berkeley Bowl!


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Hannah
Apparently before the name became synonymous with capitulation to the third reich, "Vichy" meant "bubbly spring water" to so many people that there is a small town in Sonoma named that too.
mooxyjoo
there was totally a trivia question about vichy water in the gilmore girls where rory and lorelei visit a harvard alumn's crazy overachieving family (which actually was something like when lisa visited her rival's house and they played celebrity anagrams)

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