Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times Dear Diary:
Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times I love the unintentional typo of the sign in the courtyard of my sister’s West Village apartment building, where it’s rumored Jack Kerouac once lived.
Taken at face value, though, I do wonder why a no scatting zone would be necessary in this day and age. I then imagine under the sign an illustration of Ella Fitzgerald scatting inside a “No†symbol â€" a circle and a diagonal red line through the picture â€" stifling her singing “Bu di di bi bu bi dibi…†from “How High the Moon.â€
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