An addendum to my post of 12/8*: No matter how many engines you've rebuilt, or how many tiny, crisscrossing scars your knuckles bear from the teeth of other bar brawlers, if you use both "recherche" and "dishabille" in a single e-mail, in unrelated paragraphs, you are a complete gaylord who should drop all aspirations toward pulsating virility. I do not feel many observers would dispute me on this.

*an addendum I post here almost entirely because it's such fun to slander friends who neglect to read this blog