Middagmaal in Amsterdam: July 2025

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

20 years

Some ask, "where did all the time go?" I ask, "what happened to all those great shirts?" In memory of some that clothing, and of a marriage that's just getting going, a photo album:

Breakfast Reading

“I love junk drawers!” said Coleman. “Me too!” said Serge. “They have no rules or social norms where the self-righteous can boss you around.” “I saw this other dude’s junk drawer once,” said Coleman. “It was fucked up!” “That’s the only governing principle of junk drawers,” said Serge. “Everyone else’s is fucked up, whereas yours are always quite reasonable. ‘Hey, I have this extra cap for a pen, but I can’t bring myself to throw it away because as soon as I do, I’ll find its capless mate: Into the junk drawer!’ . . . ‘Hey, there’s a molly bolt lying on the kitchen floor that fell off of something but I have no idea what. So just in case the door falls off the dishwasher . . .’” “Into the junk drawer!” said Coleman.