I already forgot about the Drunken Canal

elephants (cont.)

• The last full-time museum taxidermist in America often sleeps at work for weeks at a time. (He has to adjust the dead animals as the glue sets.) What a great profile idea, and what a man! “By the time he was a teenager, he was sewing his own clothes, learning to tan leather and taking backpacking trips in the Sierras with his dogs while wearing a full buckskin suit of his own creation.” I typically hate the videos on the Times stories, but this one actually has use value instead of authors staring into middle distance. (Also, this correction cracked me up: “He arrives there at 4:30 a.m.; he does not leave his house at that time.”)

• This post about Au Petit Bar made me miss Paris. A good Instagram to follow if you’re Euro side this Summer. (Here’s the hotel I’d stay at in Rome, if that was on my itinerary.)

• Like clockwork, summer is upon us, which means we get to see what’s going on at… The Row Amagansett. (Sorry.) The news: They’ve added some Beni Rugs, courtesy of Michael Bargo, their go-to designer. Last year, I’m embarrassed to admit I jumped at reporting their stocking Dune Suncare. Listen, someone has to care, and that person might as well be me.

• “I am begging you to read Terry Pratchett.” My husband certainly agrees with this headline, even if he would find various points the author employs to make her point rather inane. (“I worry that the persistent unfilmability of most of Pratchett’s work will mean that he fades out of public consciousness.” Really?)

• It’s actually kind of amusing how many mainstream magazines are begging us to get into Terry Pratchett. Remember this Times piece from last year?

• Prada now has an in-house mixologist. “Savage’s job is to devise drinks lists and cocktail recipes for Prada events and stores across the world.” I’m very curious as to why this article was in Elite Traveler? (What the hell is Elite Traveler?)