I am finally home, tho at the end of my long journey I was cruelly forced to stand in JFK for an hour staring longingly at the little chute from which luggage emerges... and then face the sad fact that my bags had been kidnapped and sent off to one of the Carolinas.

Tomorrow I will write many things about my glorious weekend in Texas, but in the meantime I would just like to prove how extremely elegant I am, smoking cigars in "clubs" I am now a member of and wearing rings that large birds could hatch out of at any moment: