SCARF FACE

Time for another update from our favorite neighborhood grocery. You may remember my earlier rantings about the life-size cutout of a friendly neighborhood pharmacist that was beheaded, taped back together and ultimately pushed to the back of the store.

Well, he's back. Back with a vengeance, in fact, front and center near the "best-sellers" rack (whose contents suggest that the best-sellers list comes not from The New York Times, but the Weekly World News).

Sure, the cutout still looks like it was the recipient of a Columbian necktie (which, come to think of it, must be the dramatic end nebbish pharmacists the world over dream for, like accountants who secretly dream of going to an audit armed with ninja-style throwing stars). But in an effort to soften the effect, or at least not frighten small children, a thoughtful store employee placed a tasteful lepoard-print scarf over the badly-taped trach job. So, as the kids today like to say, it's all good.