The New York Times has an article today on the renovation of the bar at the St. Regis that houses the Maxfield Parrish painting of Old King Cole. It’s a great painting, and a favorite spot of mine to drop twenty bucks on a manhattan.

The last time I was there a guy told me the reason the page is snickering is because the Old King had just let one rip. Not an SBD, I’m assuming.