Archive for the 'New York' Category

Heroes

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I don’t know if this is about disillusion or just hitting a new point on the learning curve, but yesterday I realized that 99% of the people I admire, I don’t actually admire. That is, I admire the things they’ve accomplished, but I’m not necessarily into them as people. It is unfair to them and […]

Breaking News: San Francisco good for shopping, eating

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

There’s a lot more to write about my trip, all the reasons I didn’t want to come back home, but I want to get all the materialistic stuff out of my system first. You’ve been warned.
Something about traipsing up and down all those hills makes it really hard to gawk at people like you can […]

Eastside

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Cities rub off on you. It’s a shift that’s imperceptible unless you have flown across the country enough times to notice that on your way out East,  you’re friendly, and on your way back West, you’re surly. I noticed it this time. When I was making my way to the lavatory in the back of […]

A+ for Charm

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

A man, Patrick Moberg, saw the lady of his dreams on the subway in NYC and instead of chatting her up (because nobody in NYC actually hits on you on the subway if they have any self-respect or are halfway sober, they just write missed connections on Craigslist later and hope you are really bored […]

Old Neighborhood

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I recognized every single landmark in this video, because I used to live here.

In my own defense, let me just say I think I may be the least hipstery person that’s ever lived in Williamsburg.

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