I spent the majority of Saturday with Yenni in Soho and the Bowery looking for (and buying) a light fixture for my living room that didn't look like it came from a hospital ER.

And I came to realize that a) I barely spend any time downtown these days and b) downtown is not how I remember it.

Madonna made some comments earlier this week that New ( Read more... )

I am starting to loathe the word "ringle" almost as much as I despise the word "webinar".  Who comes  up with these stupid words?   Isn't the dictionary fat enough?  Do we really need to be running off, legitimizing VaJayJay?

I was prompted to look at my photos from fall of last year.   I'm struck by how beautiful New York is in the early Winter, ( Read more... )

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Sometimes you just want to escape from yourself, and obligations, or perceptions of expectation.

I'm actually writing this in a public entry, but things have been really difficult between Mason (booksymagnifico) and I these last couple days, and it's really difficult and straining on me, and I'm off my center. It's core-distressing. That's all I really want ( Read more... )

I love chinese food. And Rose (rosefox) for reminding me how much I love Chinese food.

I just verified that Ollie's, which is 2 miles away, delivers here. Previously, the only chinese food that would come here came from Happy Family which was not happy, and probably involved a family of rodents of some kind ( Read more... )

It never leaves you, that tough-as-nails New York spirit. It will make you walk across the street regardless of oncoming traffic. And last night, in the bitter, bitter cold, it got me, stephantravels and clucas6416 a taxicab uptown.

I'm not really sure what was going on in the city last night, but usually, at midnight on a Thursday, there is NO problem getting a cab. ( Read more... )

I've been in this Starbucks in Union Square ad nauseum of late, mostly because it's close to my chemistry tutor's house and well, I guess it's just our meeting place ( Read more... )