Leon on the Encyclopedia of New York City book party for his last NYO piece
Why Tasti D-Lite, though?
“I’m sorry, I gotta pass on this one!” Ms. Keller said. “Not my choice.”
Mr. Jackson was silent for a moment, formulating an explanation.
“We wanted some funky things,” he said finally.
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“This is one of my pet peeves,” he said. “When people decide that elevators are worthy of discussion, they always talk about people getting in elevator accidents, getting stuck in elevators, et cetera. Paumgarten acknowledges — it’s buried in the middle of the article — that the elevator is actually the safest form of mechanical transportation known to man. But the entire frame of the article is about this guy getting stuck in an elevator and the emotional trauma he suffers. It’s a problem!”
(Source: leoncrawl)
