The bookshelves were crammed with Dr. Seuss, "Jumanji" and "The Wind in the Willows" but also "Moby-Dick"; with "Sesame Street" videos and also a series of DVDs on the music of Prague, Vienna and so on.
Back in the late 1980s, bond traders were the 'big swinging dicks' of Wall Street, immortalised in Michael Lewis's memoir, Liar's Poker, as boorish adrenaline junkies, trousering multi-million-dollar bonuses and inventing the cult of the 'leveraged buyout' - the debt-backed corporate takeover - simply to create fresh piles of debt for them to trade.
As that fine historian of the period Dominic Sandbrook has pointed out, the swinging 60s was largely the creation of a handful of upper-middle-class show-offs dicking around Carnaby Street and the King's Road, while the majority of ordinary people were busy keeping budgerigars, fishing in canals, playing bingo and eating at Berni Inns.
The swinging dicks of Wall Street finally prompted the countervailing power of our government to tax and regulate.
For this issue Lee sent us a piece about Wall Street dicks stealing old people's money, and of course we loved it.
PMD explains: "I named it that so when I was slinging dicks on the street, people would think, 'He's crazy!' and come talk to me.
I am writing Wall Street Journal dick jokes for the Dirty Christmas Show at the Landmark.
It's only people trying to get fucked up and get their dick sucked on the street.
At about 9 20 p.m., one or more gunmen fired at least 28 shots in the area of Daggett Street and Dicks Avenue, hitting a 41-year-old man, who is in stable condition after being shot in the left shoulder; a man in his 20s, who is in critical condition with bullet wounds in his groin and right leg; and a 21-year-old man, who is stable after being shot in the back.
