Building a bet

From pege 20

what, exactly?), flavors,
(don’t go there unless they
can do tiramisu or creme
fraiche), and with enhance-
ments that made them look
like mutant finger-puppets.

Along the way, most of
these little refugees from an
Oskar Meyer Mardi Gras lost
the rubric familiar from the
ones we used to find in parks
and behind the backstop:
For The Prevention Of

And why shouldn’t they,
since we always knew they
were really about the making
of love and the prevention of
4 a.m. feedings in the first
place?

Except that it’s hard, !ate-
ly, to find someone whose
Christmas card list hasn’t
gotten shorter, whose dinner
parties arent quieter, whose
world hasn’t become smaller
and duller on account of los-
ing a friend or family mera-
ber to AIDS, a disease large-

that old-fashioned, simple
latex device Keith Jones is
trying to make more user-
friendly.

Jones’ deep dark obses-
sive reason for putting his
fortune into rubber may not
be as fit a subject for penny-
a-word humorists as I've
made it seem.

erc

I made one less call over
the holiday season this year.
I had a few less glasses of red
wine. And IT had to leave the
room during the scene in A
Chrisemas Carol when the
Ghost Of Christmas Yet To
Come said of Tiny Tim, “I
see an empty stool by the
fireplace ...”

ndom

I wanted to write some-
thing about one of the few
men Pve known I would
actually use the word “gen-
tleman” to describe, but he
despised maudlin sentiment,
so | wrote something that
might give him a chuckle in
Hell.

I just wanted to say

goodbye, Jace nes. Mon a ami,
mon frére, Adieu: :

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