Last year, a police officer stopped by my brother’s art stand in front of the Met. Lil’ Bro offered him a print for free because he seemed to be genuinely interested in the work. The officer got awkward and left. When I arrived later in the afternoon, another officer arrived to chat [...]
Archive for June, 2007
new york’s finest at their finest
Posted in NYC, journal on June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
suspicious reading
Posted in books on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I pride myself on recognizing books by their covers. I can spot one I’ve read like an old friend on a crowded shelve across a room. Authors and publishers often have styles that serve as clues on unfamiliar books. A combination of my curiosity, my desire to regularly test my “spy” [...]
inner beauty test
Posted in journal on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I had, in college, a brief relationship that I would classify as an affair if it had been more physically intimate. We knew at the outset that we were unlikely to ever be geographically proximate after that time, so we constrained its duration to a month at the outset. Constructing everything around that [...]
emotional vampires
Posted in theory on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In my extraordinarily connected life, vampires are a newly recurring theme in spite of my determined avoidance of horror films and scary stories. The idea of sucking blood from someone’s neck is entirely repulsive to me, but I’ve realized that we drain bits of each other in other ways to sustain ourselves. Even [...]
how not to drive to boston
Posted in retrospective on June 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Olyn was going to stay up all night, and I was going to go to bed early and wake up around 4. I was going to drive the first five-hour shift, then switch to nap, then switch back. Armed with AAA directions and a little two-door hatchback loaded with everything we’d need [...]
the lost art of making it personal
Posted in friends, journal on June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There is an old man I know who has a hard time remembering but cares so much about knowing people’s names that he carries a sheet of photographs with him to his church with names printed underneath so that he can say hello to each of them personally. This is impressive since I just [...]
temporal benchmarks
Posted in friends, future plans, journal, retrospective on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Each time I sign a new credit card, I wonder what my life will be like when it expires. Will my last name be the same? Will my address be the same? Will I be able to use a credit card where I’m living? Will my credit limit have quadrupled? [...]
plan nyc … or not
Posted in NYC, journal on June 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tonight, the city got its calendar crossed and scheduled both the Musuem Mile night (where the 5th Avenue museums are open late and free, and everyone walks up and down the street) AND the first night of the Metropolitan Opera on the Great Lawn (also free). I opted for the opera in the park, [...]
another tourist attraction
Posted in NYC, journal on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In addition to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, midday tourists in New York harbor got to enjoy some “stereotypical Bronx teen behavior.” Even though we only took students we expected to behave, I struggled with the realization that several of them were unconciously reinforcing negative generalizations about inner city kids. Billy, [...]
economic considerations
Posted in snapshot on June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t regularly pick up the financial times, my spending habits fall outside what I imagine to be the typical consumer profile, and I haven’t made any big budget house/car considerations in my city life. Thus, I am highly unqualifed to analyze our nation’s financial status as of June 2007, but in spite of [...]
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