Seconds and the City: more random notes |
I rode the tram to Roosevelt Island today. A residential island between Manhattan and Queens, it's a real stretch to say that the island has any "attractions", but a good place to decompress if you're...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:01:00 GMT |
Playa |
All right. I live in the *hot* neighborhood of the moment (Park Slope), which is in the *hot* borough of the moment (Brooklyn). Big deal - everything's so freakin' close, who cares? Oh, and I was goin...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:14:00 GMT |
My insider take on a top news story |
Sorry, I don't have a stained blue dress, but I do have an interesting perspective on something else:http://...com/l5ctwu
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:06:00 GMT |
It is a dark and stormy night.... |
So I'm still liking this Victorian brownstone, old fixtures and brown paneling et al, and wish I could explore more of the house, but even the front parlor doesn't seem to be "common living area" prop...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:07:00 GMT |
Irony in Brooklyn |
Park Slope's neighborhood association has laminated signs reading "No flyers/ads/menus" on which all my neighbors attach to the gates of their brownstones...but it's also very, very commonplace to lea...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:51:00 GMT |
Woke up this morning, it was a Chelsea morning... |
I just returned from a whirlwind 18 hours in NYC to collect the keys to my "summer place" of the year and move the first batch of things in. I stayed in a hostel last night in the East Village, a favo...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:50:00 GMT |
Eyes Without a Face |
Apparently, whoever wrote the above 80s song (Billy Idol or otherwise) must have happened upon a fallen baby robin while on a serious writer's block jag. For the next two weeks, I do not want to see, ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:45:00 GMT |
Progress Report |
Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 20:21:00 GMT |
Southwest Warrior |
See if you can make sense of my summer plans:June 7 - fly to Long Island and take the Long Island Rail Raod to Brooklyn. Go to sublet. Hang up interview suit and make sure I can get the key into the l...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 17:02:00 GMT |
Random note |
Passing by my old high school yesterday, I saw the following bulletin:GRADUATION MAY 12FULL DAY MAY 13So much for closure. Glad I got out when I did...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 16:26:00 GMT |
