The financial collapse here in New York has finally affected me… My landlord is selling the apartment. So for the third time in 28 months, I’ll be moving. With any luck I’ll find a no-fee apartment, but not without a fair amount of frustration I expect. The Manhattan rental market is a beast like no [...]
I’m waiting in line at the laundry with one girl behind me while a couple in front of me disputes something about their laundry detergent. Two or three minutes go by. A man walks up carrying a bag of laundry and steps in front of me.
Me: “Hey, there’s a line.”
Him: (shrug)
The couple leaves just then. [...]
some dude i was talking to in a bar was wearing a shirt that said, “music is my life”
and so i was like, “you like music??” and pointed to the shirt
and he goes “i guess. my brother gave me this shirt.”
this is season 1, entry 1 of a series about retarded things people say [...]
With the ever-dreaded Valentine’s Day approaching, as well as the one year anniversary of being unceremoniously dumped via google talk on my blackberry at the start of my 8th consecutive overnight shift, I figured it was time to reassess my romantic life, or rather, complete lack there of. First, some statistics about the past [...]
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When the weather permits, I let my feet take me home instead of the subway. My route of choice is 3.52 miles, which, with average foot traffic and a fair amount of Don’t Walk signs takes a little over an hour. [...]
Every work day morning I board the 2 or 3 train at the 14th street stop via the 7th ave and 12th st entrance. I get off at the 72nd street station and exit at the 71-72nd island in the center of Broadway. In the evening, I reverse my steps.
In just three weeks [...]
Living in New York sometimes feels like living on another planet. There’s no such thing as a supermarket. I don’t have a car. I have to pay someone else to do my laundry because there aren’t any self-service spots. I had to pay a taxi to drive me to Goodwill to give away hundreds of [...]
A Little Tooth
by Thomas Lux
Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It’s all
over: she’ll learn some words, she’ll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,
your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are [...]
It was a gorgeous sunny day here in New York City today. I had the day off, so I decided I should spend at least some of it outside… First I walked down to the Strand Bookstore in Union Square. Only took about 40 mins to walk there so I’m considering walking to [...]
I don’t really get how the odds work in this city.
There are about what… 8 million people in New York City? Via my Darien and Dartmouth experiences, I am familiar or friendly with probably about 200-300 people who live here, but I really wouldn’t expect to just bump right into them with the frequency [...]