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Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* A pasty is a tasty treat. (Courtesy: PMS)

* One-fifth of NYC’s visitors are international visitors, and this group is the source for half of visitors’ retail spending. (Courtesy: NYT)

* An intensive course in pop music, including Cody Simpson, Austin Mahone, Ms. Peachez and more. (Courtesy: EC)

* Crepes are harder to make than I expected. (Courtesy: Personal experience)

Things I Learned This Week

Among the things I learned this week:

* Little J.B., a singer who I love from and tried to find more of based on his performance from Super Bad @ 65: A Tribute To James Brown, is Lee Fields (whom I have a few albums). (Courtesy: The New Yorker)

* Stops don’t make sense with country-wide ETFs for anything but day trading because of what it would take for a major price change. (Courtesy: YM)

* The Apollo is a lot smaller than I expected, and seventeen year olds can rock the house. (Courtesy: Wycliffe Gordon’s Jazz A La Carte)

* There is another type of gin, and it is fantastic. (Courtesy: ZS, JSK, and NYC)

* Not enough parents teach their children, some of whom are grown, how to enjoy a meal. (YM’s A and MS’ N)

* Myrna Loy modeled for Gil Elvgren. (Courtesy: Martignette and Meisel)