That is an irresistable pose.

Excellent point.

I love his work. Such a New York character, inseparable from the mood of the city back then, or at least, how we like to think of the city back then.

Should we care if it's a Twitter clone, if it's better and draws sane people?

I read War and Peace in a half hour. It's about Russia.

Tell that to Stalin and Pol Pot.

To those who miss B. Dalton and Tower Records: remember that they were putting independents out of business long before there was an Amazon.

"Take up a trade" can be a deceptive phrase. It takes years of training to be a top-flight auto mechanic at a dealership, and they make a lot more than teachers or many others who require advanced degrees. Yet many consider it a lesser accomplishment.

Sacrilege alert: it is NOT the Elements of Style, which I don't recommend. Roy Peter Clark's Writing Tools gets into the nitty-gritty of sentence structure in a way that few other writing books do.