Manhattan, not SL.
I was thinking about writing something along these lines but I never got around to it until the friendly neighborhood spectralcentroid wrote something along the something I wrote about a month or two back — specifically, about leaving New York (reminds me of some movie… ah of course, Leaving Las Vegas). I thought I’d [...]
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Island spell
Posted in Me, New York & Jersey on November 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Bye, NY
Posted in New York & Jersey, Nostalgia on August 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m going to say something uncharacteristically soppy. I’m really going to miss New York. I’m leaving tomorrow and I’m already feeling a bit “off” as I’m packing things up. Can’t believe it. Feels like a fucking breakup.
My regards to Broadway
Posted in New York & Jersey, TV/Radio/Movies/Drama on July 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Once you’ve been to Broadway, you sort of have to reassess your, er, assessment of the Colombo theater scene, which, from what I hear, has fallen into some disrepute.
So I finally did Broadway. Went to see the allegedly “global smash-hit” Mama Mia at the Winter Garden Theater (50th street on Broadway). The performance exceeded my [...]
Wooosh…, Big Apple
Posted in New York & Jersey, Thinks it's Funny on July 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
A steam pipe has blown in midtown Manhattan. And to think I was planning to go to 42nd street yesterday. Thank goodness I wasn’t there. I’d never have been able to tell the difference between a steam pipe explosion and something Al Qaeda would have brewed up. Not that the locals were any different that [...]
Brokeneck mountain, breakneck mountain, whatever
Posted in Camera-Monkey, Me, New York & Jersey on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When somebody asks “Would you like to go hiking?” you generally don’t expect him to use “hiking” to mean “mountain climbing”. You also don’t expect the name of the mountain to be “Brokeneck Mountain”. To me, negotiating any incline in excess of 45 degrees constitutes climbing and not hiking. But of course there I was [...]
