December 2009
4 posts
"Put on your socks and mittens / it's getting...
Setting the mood for this evening, New Years Eve to be exact, I’m sharing this track.
Strange Overtones - Brian Eno,…
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Dastardly Sweet Ocean of Sound
These are the guys I’d want to compose the soundtrack to my first film.
Ok, if anything it would be a novel that would make for a great adaptation.
But if you haven’t guessed by now, I can’t stop listening. The track Clipper (listen to this one from start to finish please), off their most recent album titled Isla, is the sort of dastardly sweet ocean of sound that reminds me...
"My Husband The Heart Surgeon" Awarded Best Of...
My contributor’s copy of Blood and Thunder, a journal published by The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, arrived in the mail this week. I had no idea until I opened it that my piece “My Husband The Heart Surgeon” had been awarded “2009 Best of Blood and Thunder for Short Stories, Essays, and Prose”.
To the editors of Blood and Thunder - thank you for the...
November 2009
4 posts
“Charlie Brown: We’ve got ANOTHER holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving...”
– “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” Charles M. Schulz (1973)
(Sometimes the Parks Dept. Daily Plant newsletter Quote of The Day actually does make my day.)
Don’t read Bukowski on the way to work. You will step on to the wrong train. You’ll be late, your coffee will be cold. Chuck will be proud.
I
derive a negligible level of satisfaction when creating .pdf files. Negligible, but it counts for something.
Young Scroungers
Kids on my block left a cardboard box on their stoop with a sign that read: WE WANT MONEY. LEAVE SOME IN HERE. They have the right idea; it just needs some fine tuning.
October 2009
2 posts
SNUGGIE for Dogs. Keeps you warm AND paws free. Available at Walgreens and other fine retailers. Whew- what a relief.
“There’s a snowman and when it poops, it turns into an ice cream cone!”
– While cleaning out my wallet I found a note I scribbled about this “overheard in NY” moment on the subway over a year ago. Truthfully, there is no context that can help this one out.
September 2009
3 posts
Watch(Insert Slow Food analogy here.)
I’m so glad to have stumbled on this series of videos featuring Mr. Gay Talese. Lately, and for long stretches of time (usually on inter-state bus rides, with my note book on my lap) I have been thinking about the points he makes in this segment.
What Mr. Talese has to say about most magazine pieces as they stand today leads me to wonder this: Are we due...
Overheard In Queens
Typical-Backwards-Baseball-Cap-Queens-Guy: “Dude, you don’t have a blowtorch?!?!?”
To which I should have replied: “Hang on there, let me fish mine out of my purse!”
August 2009
9 posts
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Wu-Note = Brilliant Wu-Tang Re-designs Inspired by... →
I rarely repost but I saw this flickr set originally posted on Apartment Therapy, and just had to share.
April 2009
2 posts
WHEW! I MAY NEVER HAVE TO WRITE AN EMAIL AGAIN. PLUS, I JUST LOVE STRANGE DINNER PARTIES AND BABIES THAT I *SHOULD* HAVE NO INTEREST IN. Two Gmail accounts can happily converse with each other for up to three > messages each. Beyond that, our experiments have shown a significant decline > in the quality ranking of Autopilot’s responses and further messages may > commit you to dinner...
March 2009
3 posts
Wait, How Will I Know Anything City Related? Will...
There are murmurs of The New York Times succumbing to the crumbling paper biz and cutting several regional sections. The City Section is one of them. No, I cry ! No! Maybe I should have actually *bought *the paper all these years.
February 2009
13 posts
On The Street Siting
”I Don’t Want To, You Can’t Make Me, I’m Retire”’ shirt worn by actual
retired man in East Village. Look out hipsters, sincerity is back.
It is really hard to follow closed-captioning for MAD MONEY with Jim Cramer.
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But wait, aren’t knives always chordless?
Lala.com is my new-ish toy
Several months ago, while trolling around on Craigslist, I discovered Lala. Her developers were asking for feedback in exchange for free music downloads. (is it a her, is this site gendered, maybe I think of it as a her because Lala immediately makes me think of Lola, then I get to singing that song “la la la la Lo-oh-la- h…” and I forget that I’m telling you about a new...
two-piece suit.
One of the guards at my office building has the most intense mustache. Imagine a walrus sans tusks sporting spectacles and a security issued
To Clarify In Regard To Volcanic Oil...
(At a loss for my good camera two nights ago while on a run to Rite Aide, I resorted to my camera phone to post the photo below.)
Rite Aide is not letting me down when it comes to design “so bad it’s good”. Well, I think this one falls more precisely under the category of “actually pretty great in the least assuming way possible “ — mostly because of the...
...At Rest
Yes, Mr. Updike is no longer with us. When I found out sometime during the afternoon on the 27th, I let out a very audible “ooh no”. I was sitting at my desk when a co-worker, obviously checking up on NYT.com or the likes, announced over the the cubicle partitions that John Updike had died. He said it with only a bit more emotion that if he were sharing the latest forecast for bad...
January 2009
7 posts
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Why Neighborhood Groceries Are Superior
The man behind the deli counter, where everything looked delicious and fresh, not vacuum packed in strange and mysterious juices, just called me mademoiselle. He even bowed a little. Message me if you would like to know the name of this magical place.
A Small and Personal Pleasure
Eating a clementine in bed, best in wintertime, is a small and personal pleasure surpassed only by eating two clementines in bed.
The Snow In Brooklyn
This evening, the snow in Brooklyn looked beautiful. It was still falling, and fresh enough on the sidewalk for there to be stretches where people hadn’t stepped yet. I was walking to the subway and it was dark, the snow glowing in the streams of streetlamp light as it floated to the ground. A boxer puppy played in the blanketed driveway of a Victorian house I always admire, and he sprinted...
Digging deeper; let's just hope the canary doesn't...
Not that anyone one reads this thing, but just in case you do (and I know you are right now) - and you were wondering why things are looking a bit off these days, here’s the reason why:
I’ve got no knowledge of code. Pretty much zero, zippo, nada. But, I’ve been messing around with the custom html options. My graphics are looking pretty raggedy right now, but it’s after 10...
Updates and Autograph Etiquette
I suppose I haven’t wrapped up 2008 properly. (A) I never did a de-brief of the KGB Bar reading; (B) I haven’t reached out to any of my old friends lately; (C) I haven’t captured the weird exciting new thoughts I’ve been having so that I could share them once I did eventually reach out.
(By the way, de-brief, reach out, and capture are all bits of lingo I’ve had to...
December 2008
4 posts
Writing is thinking. So is designing. But when is a rectangle not a square?