Reading Helps with the Spelling Too.

“I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read books and stories by good writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said about his field, 'Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.' " 

 ~ Maureen Dowd, whose brother also has a decent piece in the paper today.

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Maureen is taking fashion advice from an Ugg-shod friend (he owns 9 pair, in black and bark) on how to find oneself a good, little black dress.  (and that's dress people; let's stop hearing non-existent dog whistles...)

I start to feel paranoid when my friend André offers a disquisition on how to identify a “good black” hue versus a “bad black” one, and which blacks don’t match. I’d assumed black was black.

“You don’t want a harsh black or a dead black that looks like an old bunker that’s been oxidized through years of neglect in a barren warehouse,” he says.

“A good black is an electrifying black. It should be about dreams of beauty.”

Cheers to that, then.