And today, on Things You Didn't Know You Should Be Freaked Out About: Bedbugs!

Oh, but I hear you say it: we are New Yorkers, and we already know about the whole Bedbug Thing. In the 20th century, bedbugs went from rather common to almost unheard of in much of the industrialized world. But over the last few years, a combination of increased ( Read more... )

Tonight I shirked my responsibilities and delayed my dinner in order to hear John Crowley (aka crowleycrow) read at the 92nd St Y. Crowley -- opening diphthong as in cow, not as in crow -- is one of my most favorite writers in the world, and unquestionably a big influence on my own writing. I discovered his most famous novel, Little, Big, upon the lending ( Read more... )

I am kind of underemployed right now -- in fact I'm really underemployed, and if anybody needs a freelance editorial guy with smarts and the ability to learn quick, please contact me; résumé and enthusiastic references available on request -- but up until today I was not worried.

Today, however, I realize that in fact I am probably going to starve ( Read more... )

I have had quite a few moments of fabulous metropolitan culture in the last ten days or so: dancing until 3 at Habibi, the monthly bash for NYC's gay Arab community (yes, really; the dance music, from Egypt Lebanon Syria et al, is fabulous, and the partygoers handsome); seeing Boeing Boeing on Broadway; Fleet Week. Oh, and the new Indiana Jones ( Read more... )

Good evening, intrepid NYC eaters-of-food! Tonight's cooking-at-home question: if you're jonesing for Tater Tots 1, but all your grocery store carries is Kineret Mini Potato Latkes 2, are you bound for glory or disappointment? Stay tuned, because we're going to find out!

UPDATED: Oh yes. Glory, my friends. Glory.

1 I love it that Tater Tots have a ( Read more... )

Okay, so, um, local grocery store? On the way home tonight? Buying ice cream? And there’s this sign over the little refrigerated sushi case? And it says:

SOME SUSHI
CONTAIN
RAW FISH

Um.

It has been a loooong week. A long few weeks, actually, which is why I haven’t posted a damn thing in nearly a month; but this week has been particularly bonkers.

Got out of the office at 9:30 tonight (although don’t get me wrong; the job is still incredibly fun) with a desperate need to blow off some steam. God bless Randy, my fellow swimmer and ( Read more... )

Weekend of glorious hedonism. Am completely knackered. Going to bed very soon.

However, it would be unfair of me not to briefly discuss the Scissor Sisters show last night at the Madison Square Garden Theater, at least in a few easy-to-digest bullet points. Ergo:

• I wore the gayest t-shirt I own, because, well, how could one not?
• We got there in ( Read more... )

So I just got off the phone with the Assistant DA who handled the attempted-rape incident that happened beneath my window a while back.

The perp pled guilty. Two years in the state pen, followed by ten years as a registered sex offender. End of story.

Although I guess it isn’t the end of the story. The perp’s story will go on, and in what way I ( Read more... )

While I was writing that last entry, Something Bad started to happen across the street. At first I thought it was some small child throwing a tantrum. Why on earth do so many people drag their kids around NYC at all hours of the night? And then it stopped sounding like a small child throwing a tantrum, and started sounding more and more like an ( Read more... )