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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I haven't been home in seven days — I'm tired, homesick, more than a little hungover, and generally crabby. I'm wearing jeans to work today because everything else I have with me smells like cigarettes and ass and might have body glitter on it. And I miss my cats.I'm about ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
After spending all morning reading about how much I missed out on by failing to score the tightest ticket in town, I figured the Universe owed me one. But the best the Universe could do on short notice was drop club level tickets to the Rangers-Islanders game at Madison Square ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Yesterday was a site launch day at work. (For Dave Siegel, who thinks I work at a bakery: yesterday we introduced a new loaf of bread to our bread inventory.)This was the first site we've launched for this particular publisher, and I had joked with him consistently over the course ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
One of my eight or nine favorite things about my new iPhone is that I finally get to know the joy that comes with owning a cameraphone. I've been taking all sorts of stupid pictures of mediocre quality.
I saw Morrissey twice last week. This shot's from Monday, when I tried ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Look at what I had waiting for me this morning:
Awws. I feel the same way, girls.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Here's the driving report for Saturday, September 29th, 2007:
Today was finally the day for heading down to Red Hook, Brooklyn, for the locally-famous Central/South American food stands that occupy the Red Hook ball fields. It's the top-rated restaurant on Yelp, edging out the Michelin three star Jean-Georges, so my expectations ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS is in a GARAGE, motherfucker.
I'll miss the alternate side parking ritual, I sort of enjoyed it. But what with the job, and I've been told that I enjoy strange things, so I started hunting for a garage. A week and a hundred phone calls and ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Dear Internet,
If history has anything to say about it, when things are going well for me, this blog turns to a sparse and boring pile of crap. I'm sorry for your loss of reading material, Internet, but I can't be bothered to find my whimsical voice just this minute. Not ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
These weekdays of leisure in the city will soon be over, so I made the trip to Brooklyn today to finally explore the Transit Museum. Best museum EVER.
I couldn't get enough of the transit ads in the old trains, several of which I photographed and will offer with no further ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
It was time to let off a little steam by way of the automotive safety valve, so roommates Nick Faber and Dave Siegel joined me in the Dodge Stratus for a trip down the shore, as they say. We were searching for a boardwalk, an ocean, fried foods, sweet confections, ...
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