5.30.2006

Please. Spare us the purple prose.

Beyond Bars and Strip Clubs, City Beckons Sailors on Shore Leave - New York Times: "For sailors, traditional and nontraditional, New York has been their fried pork dumpling."

Actually I always thought of it as a slice of pizza. But hey, not Anthony Ramirez and Kate Hammer, two writers for the NY Times, who interview sailors from the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge on shore leave in Manhattan and find an abiding interest in frozen cappucinos and...wait for it...brownstones.

"We spent the day on a bus tour mostly looking for nice architecture," said Botswain's Mate Jason Kinsey, "so I'm in seventh heaven when I see brownstones."

His adventures in heavens one through six go unremarked.

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