crack dens and kaitlins
NYC The Fletchers have this swell idea of moving all in together in a four or five bedroom Astoria apartment. There would be five of us. Two couples and myself. We've started taking a peek at what's out there, just to see what's goin on... I found this too-good-to-be-true listing on Craig's list Saturday night:
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$2200 / 5br - Rent stabilized, renovated,half block to NW trains, 30th Ave, near all
Five roomates or large family, five bedrooms!!!!!
Private backyard, perfect for barbequing or reading a book, nice large kitchen and Living room, separate independent entrances, Heat and hot water included, pets are welcome!
Just half block from the 30th Ave train station, N,W trains, 5-7 minutes from Midtown Manhattan, very quiet street and yet everything is around: supermarkets, coffee shops (very close to very popular and famous Athen's cafe),restaurants, shopping malls, bank, schools, houses of warship, very diverse very international location, just 2 blocks from Athens square park, and much more!
Best opportunity in town!!!
Please Call Vicky for a showing
Won't last!!!
******WE HAVE LARGE SELECTION OF APARTMENTS!************
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Well. It was too-good-to-be-true. We went to look at it today, and that place was a fucking Freddy Krueger crack den. The only thing I think I could do in that apartment is OD in the rusty bathtub. The apartment was a basement apartment, which the realtor assured us was "perfectly legal!" (yeah, because we weren't even considering the possibility of it being illegal until he said that) and it had three separate entrances for three different rapists or robbers to take advantage of all of us.
There was a completely concrete trash-strewen "backyard", perfect for "reading a book", "barbecuing" or having your head smashed in by someone from behind when coming home late at night. The "backyard" was accessible by a creepy arched doorway entrance that was open and exposed to the street. AJ thought the whole place looked like Abu Ghirab.
We were then shown two other "Four Bedroom" apartments, that didn't really have any bedrooms because none of them had any closets. Or doors. Or proper hallways.
I hope we don't have to move from our current apartment. It's a concern.
Spider-Man 3 was pretty good, right? Definitely some leaps in logic and some total silliness (which I actually enjoyed), but some fantastic acting and action sequences. A lot of the movie reminded me of a classic creature feature from the fifties, which I enjoyed a lot.
Performance-wise, everything was solid this weekend. It amazes me how Kaitlin and I can see each other for an hour after not seeing each other in five months and get on stage and do amazing improv scenes. We both think it's totally inexplicable. It might be one of those chemistry things. I almost don't want to write about it here because I'm worried that I'll jinx it somehow.
Her friend Katie took these great pictures of us the next day for the VIIF website. They're very cute and silly and necessary.
The first performance of The Comic Book went over very very well. It's a fun form to play in front of an audience with everyone in the cast there to support each other. It's very energetic and punchy and jokey and specific to things that I like. I made an excellent geeky Crisis on Infinite Earths joke that I'm proud of. I'm so happy the multiverse was restored in the DCU recently! Because I'm ridiculous that way.
I'm going to be working very hard the next few weeks, making as much money as possible before leaving for the improv fest in Vancouver. If you see me around, hug me, please.
MC5 - James Brown Medley: a. Cold Sweat b. I Can't Stand Myself c. There Was A Time - 1968 27th June Sturgis Armoury
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$2200 / 5br - Rent stabilized, renovated,half block to NW trains, 30th Ave, near all
Five roomates or large family, five bedrooms!!!!!
Private backyard, perfect for barbequing or reading a book, nice large kitchen and Living room, separate independent entrances, Heat and hot water included, pets are welcome!
Just half block from the 30th Ave train station, N,W trains, 5-7 minutes from Midtown Manhattan, very quiet street and yet everything is around: supermarkets, coffee shops (very close to very popular and famous Athen's cafe),restaurants, shopping malls, bank, schools, houses of warship, very diverse very international location, just 2 blocks from Athens square park, and much more!
Best opportunity in town!!!
Please Call Vicky for a showing
Won't last!!!
******WE HAVE LARGE SELECTION OF APARTMENTS!************
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Well. It was too-good-to-be-true. We went to look at it today, and that place was a fucking Freddy Krueger crack den. The only thing I think I could do in that apartment is OD in the rusty bathtub. The apartment was a basement apartment, which the realtor assured us was "perfectly legal!" (yeah, because we weren't even considering the possibility of it being illegal until he said that) and it had three separate entrances for three different rapists or robbers to take advantage of all of us.
There was a completely concrete trash-strewen "backyard", perfect for "reading a book", "barbecuing" or having your head smashed in by someone from behind when coming home late at night. The "backyard" was accessible by a creepy arched doorway entrance that was open and exposed to the street. AJ thought the whole place looked like Abu Ghirab.
We were then shown two other "Four Bedroom" apartments, that didn't really have any bedrooms because none of them had any closets. Or doors. Or proper hallways.
I hope we don't have to move from our current apartment. It's a concern.
Spider-Man 3 was pretty good, right? Definitely some leaps in logic and some total silliness (which I actually enjoyed), but some fantastic acting and action sequences. A lot of the movie reminded me of a classic creature feature from the fifties, which I enjoyed a lot.
Performance-wise, everything was solid this weekend. It amazes me how Kaitlin and I can see each other for an hour after not seeing each other in five months and get on stage and do amazing improv scenes. We both think it's totally inexplicable. It might be one of those chemistry things. I almost don't want to write about it here because I'm worried that I'll jinx it somehow.
Her friend Katie took these great pictures of us the next day for the VIIF website. They're very cute and silly and necessary.
The first performance of The Comic Book went over very very well. It's a fun form to play in front of an audience with everyone in the cast there to support each other. It's very energetic and punchy and jokey and specific to things that I like. I made an excellent geeky Crisis on Infinite Earths joke that I'm proud of. I'm so happy the multiverse was restored in the DCU recently! Because I'm ridiculous that way.
I'm going to be working very hard the next few weeks, making as much money as possible before leaving for the improv fest in Vancouver. If you see me around, hug me, please.
MC5 - James Brown Medley: a. Cold Sweat b. I Can't Stand Myself c. There Was A Time - 1968 27th June Sturgis Armoury