My favorite building in New York is on the northwest corner of 83rd and York. It’s entire southwall is a trompe l’oeil of gargoyles and shop windows. Also on 83rd Street is a bronze horse head that sticks out of a wall on the third floor, a building whose roofline feels arabic, and [...]
Archive for March, 2007
tiny details that I walk past
Posted in NYC on March 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
what you can learn in fashion club
Posted in fashion, journal on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today, 14 wonderful young girls in the Bronx learned that across middle America and the west coast boys think that fitted baseball hats should actually fit your head and street creds are built on how well worn it looks. As I tried to define the distinction between “high fashion” and “low fashion” (it was [...]
warning: math girl
Posted in future plans, journal on March 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In college, Yoshie and I decided to start The Yoshie/Ali Boyfriend School to train men who wanted to date our girl friends. This began with our dissatisfaction about one particular boyfriend of one very nice chemistry student. She eventually married a much nicer boy without any contributions from either of us. However, [...]
leaving it when there’s not enough good
Posted in journal on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are creatures of habit. Even though my job title has changed seven times since I began teaching, I have walked through the same set of doors every work day for nearly 4 years. I stick with long term crushes rather than risking emotions on dating. My bravery is mostly theoretical. [...]
then it made sense
Posted in NYC, journal on March 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I try to sit on the port side of airplanes, preferably by the window. This usually means that I’m by myself or with just one other person, and it’s the side where I find it easier to sleep. For some reason, when I booked my flights for this weekend’s wedding, I requested 7C [...]
in defense of grey
Posted in future plans, journal on March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Grey’s Anatomy is my guilty pleasure. Those who know me well, know the many reasons that it makes no sense for me to watch the show but I do. This fall, I tried to give it up for awhile, but it didn’t last.
In many ways, I found the potential death of it’s lead [...]
80’s – the era of ugly
Posted in journal on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was born at the very beginning of the 80’s but I wasn’t a very trendy kid. 80’s fashion to me means wearing a side pony tail with a scruchie, twirling gum around your finger, having a huge collar on your shirt so it’s falling off your shoulder, and wearing tapered jeans. Today, [...]
what’s wrong with the “gotham strait”?
Posted in NYC, journal, running on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am concerned about new ecological developments on the East River, but google searching has revealed nothing, so I am writing my observations here.
On Sunday I ran north on the hexagonal cobblestone path that follows the Manhattan side of the East River. For the most part, a dry, narrow path had been cleared off [...]
normal
Posted in journal, peace on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If anyone had a normal childhood, I did. I can’t complain. Through the recession of the 80’s and the dawn of the computer age of the 90’s, I lived the life of a hypothetical nuclear 50’s family. Statistically, no more than 22% of the US population lives today as I did then, [...]
a city of soul mates
Posted in NYC, friends on March 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometime around my fourth birthday, I met a girl named Amy. She lived down the street from me, and over the next five years we would share many wonderful childhood moments in suburban Maryland.
In the third grade, when I signed up for girl scouts, I met a girl named Katie who had [...]
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