I want to state for the record that I just cried over a YouTube video of the Beatles rooftop concert, specifically at the beginning of "Get Back ( Read more... )

I know it's totally last-minute, but I saw a flyer for this a few days ago and only just now checked out the website. I'm going, if only to offset the horrible taste in my mouth after reading Dick Cavett's recent uncharacteristically hateful mouthoff re: why it's not okay to be fat.

Fat Girl Flea MarketFor all you larger women who, like me, have ( Read more... )

I feel a certain level of kindred spirit with Roosevelt Island. It reminds me of every home I've tried to make since leaving Jacksonville: it tries really hard to be classy -- every few yards along the sporadically-maintained bike trail that runs the perimeter of the island there'll be a classical sculpture or some weird modern art; at the ( Read more... )

I just finished The Amber Spyglass. Appropriately enough, my world will never be the same ( Read more... )

Steve's voice on the Mp3 Experiment track said to point to the ugliest cloud in the sky. I was running late, and as I sprinted across Vesey Street, I pointed at the sickly gray smoke seeping up into the sky from what I figured was a chimney or smokestack over what I didn't realize till then was a condemned building across the street. There weren't ( Read more... )

If anyone has heard from Sheena (or if you are Sheena, reading this) since last night, please let me know that she's okay. I've called and e-mailed, and am in default extremely-worried mode since I haven't heard back yet and the New York Times isn't making it any better.

I hate boring posts like these ( Read more... )

Yesterday I watched Joey Chestnut end Takeru Kobayashi's 6-year streak as champion hot dog eater at the Nathan's annual contest. My god, it's not even vaguely normal to be able to eat 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes ( Read more... )

(Passing across the street from the fundamentalists on loudspeakers who camp out outside the subway stop on 42nd between 6th and 7th Avenues.)

"You must believe that the Bible is the word of G-d passed down through man. The Bible -- not the Koran, not the Book of Mormon. Not the Torah, which is the Bible in translation."

This has been a terrible week for the United States. The only good thing so far seems to be that Gonzales may be wrung out to dry. The rest of it? Not so good ( Read more... )