Kips Bay Seasoning: Show House Blowup
Penelope Green's House and Garden salute to Kips Bay in the Times reads like an exquisite corpse and rivals i ek in pure inscrutability.
There was a celebratory fizz all along Madison Avenue last week, on that stretch of the Upper East Side that makes a kind of decorator's gulch, and that serves as a barometer of the rarefied neighborhood's consumer confidence.
As the article progresses, one falls deeper into the wormhole. What editor would dare wade into a Fibonacci series expressed in letters, populated by random figures as dangerous as a football squad of surly schizophrenics? Clearly the H&G gang played hot potato until the very moment the piece landed in our laps and scalded our briefly clad and now confused nether parts. [Ed. Note: Actually, I quite enjoyed it!]
