Today’s column may seem a little weird, even by my standards. But it could have been weirder. I did, after all, resist the temptation to make this my second paragraph:
It was just like Edward Hopper’s "Nighthawks." Except that it was in the daytime, and there was just one customer instead of three, and it was in a small town rather than an urban setting, and the counterman was a woman. Other than those things, it was just like "Nighthawks."
…not to be confused, of course, with the Gottfried Helnwein version.
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I like that paragraph better than the rest of the column. It’s funny.
Of course, I also like that paragraph because I really like the painting.
The original suits me better than the knockoff, too.