In an atypically anti-depressive moment, Herman Melville once wrote, as you'll no doubt recall, "When we live life, it is enough; no foe conceived deters us from that bounty." And in HM's words we place full trust. As we should. Because it's the god-awful truth. Still, we know you miss us when our lives are elsewhere. So we thought it appropriate to check in: a small kindness that you have well earned. If you're interested in whatever it is the Times spat out of College Point for yesterday's perusal, our colleagues have done a bang-up post on same; if you're interested in whatever went down at the Architectural League's Beaux-Arts Ball, we suggest you ask the belle of the ball himself; if you're interested in on-the-spot reportage from tonight's 7 World Trade opening bash, ask us later; if you're interested in the ICFF....Moving on, if you're interested in whatever wonders befell the elect who attended Dan-yell Libeskind's surprise 60th birthday party on Friday, you'll have to read the hilariously cloying account already printed in some Canadian paper; we sent a crack team—and an army of backups!—but they are all being remarkably reticent. Or maybe they just haven't woken up.

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