A couple of features on this blog may not be working for the next week or so. As you may know, we run on a great software called WordPress and as you might imagine, the fine folks who make WordPress are always updating it and improving it…and their latest update doesn't seem to like a number of things in the way I set this blog up, lo these many years ago.
If I had all the time in the world, I could fix them all, A.S.A.P. but I seem to be absurdly busy, especially given the fact that the world is about two-thirds shut down. So I'll get to them, I'll get to them. In the meantime, many of the special articles I have on this site — like my old POV columns and the I.A.Q. section — may be unreachable for a while.
The changes in WordPress seem to have played havoc with the many comment threads on one of my other websites, oldlarestaurants.com, so I'm closing it down altogether. The essays that I wrote there about favorite eating spots in my past will be moved to the articles section here once I fix the menus here that get you into the articles section here. Just think of it all as yet another thing in our world that ain't functioning the way it's supposed to.