"I first heard of James B. Douglas and David D. Bohannon not when I was 12 but a dozen years later, when I was living in New York, working for Vogue, and taking, by corresponence, a University of California Extension course in Shopping-center theory. This did not seem to me eccentric at the time. I remember sitting on the cool floor in Irving Penn's studio and reading, in The Community Builders Handbook, advice from James B Douglas on shopping-center financing. I recall staying late in my pale-blue office on the twentieth floor of the Graybar Building to memorize David D. Bohannon's parking ratios."
Found money! That means you are buying the drinks, right?
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:40 PM
Sure thing, dude.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:42 PM
The good news just keeps rolling in!
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:43 PM
And come to think of it, shit -- when is the other shoe going to drop?
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:46 PM
(I'm thinking like a big clown shoe, you know.)
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:46 PM
(Coming down on my head! And why should I have to suffer for all you guys' happiness anyways? What did you guys ever do for me? Now I'm getting mad!)
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:48 PM
Probably hopping mad, since you've only got one shoe.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 12:55 PM
Nice.
Is this from that telephone sales company? Nah, they probably wouldn't track you down to give you money.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 1:33 PM
Nah, it's Time Inc. I was a receptionist there, and then sold reprints for FORTUNE, for a year between the Peace Corps and law school.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 1:46 PM
"Bank Error In Your Favor"
Consider investing in a house on Mediterranean Avenue, or better.
Or is it the Game Of Life I'm thinking of?
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 2:08 PM
No, you're right, Gary, but she'd be better off buying a railroad.
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 2:30 PM
Screw that. It's free money! Blow it all on hookers and crack. Then you can use your "get out of jail free" card.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 2:31 PM
Waterworks!
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 3:08 PM
Blow it all on hookers and crack. Then you can use your "get out of jail free" card.
Yeah, that's going to up in your confirmation hearings.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 3:11 PM
"Nah, it's Time Inc. I was a receptionist there, and then sold reprints for FORTUNE, for a year between the Peace Corps and law school."
I envision LB as Joan Didion.
"I first heard of James B. Douglas and David D. Bohannon not when I was 12 but a dozen years later, when I was living in New York, working for Vogue, and taking, by corresponence, a University of California Extension course in Shopping-center theory. This did not seem to me eccentric at the time. I remember sitting on the cool floor in Irving Penn's studio and reading, in The Community Builders Handbook, advice from James B Douglas on shopping-center financing. I recall staying late in my pale-blue office on the twentieth floor of the Graybar Building to memorize David D. Bohannon's parking ratios."
Minus the shopping-center theory of course.
Posted by NickS | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 3:56 PM
But not minus Irving Penn's cool floor.
Posted by I don't pay | Link to this comment | 07-19-06 3:59 PM