A look book to January 2006 on OTBKB:

–I was writing about the planning of the 30th high school reunion of the progressive, upper west side high school that no longer exists.

–I’d just read Paul Auster’s “Brooklyn Follies” and enjoyed his story about cinnamon-Reagan bagels and Pumper-Nixons. Story was confirmed by bagel guys at La Bagel.

–I discovered that my friend Mary was pictured in a street scene on the cover of the book. She’s still glowing about that and is convinced that she’s the beautiful mom that Auster calls by some acronym that slips my mind this minute. “That’s why he put me on the cover,” Mary told me jokingly.

–I sold a down jacket on OTBKB. We took pictures of the buyer, a nice guy named Otto, with his pit bull. I bought the jacket for my dad at Brooklyn Industries but it didn’t fit. They wouldn’t let me exchange it for a bigger size because it was final sale. Grrrr. It still pisses me off and makes me angry every time I walk past Brooklyn Industries.