This is definitely the weekend after a three day weekend. How can I tell? My neighborhood is swarming with residents in spite of the cold. Last night I had to press through crowds all the way down Lexington, had to wait in line at Barnes & Noble, and the lobby of the movie theatre [...]
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resident density calculus
Posted in theory on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
threat levels
Posted in NYC, theory on September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Walking through the intersection of 60th and Park last night, I was surrounded by the steam spewing from three massive tubes that had been propped atop the manholes there. Running along the river today, I narrowly missed falling into a hole in the hexagonal-tiled pedestrian/bike path. The much publicized, and much mocked, [...]
today’s date
Posted in journal, theory on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
According to my cell phone, my computer, my three calendars, the postmark, the tv guide, and the newspaper, today’s date is July 31, 2007. Since it’s going on 10 pm in New York, the date has clicked over to August in most of the rest of the world and soon even America will follow [...]
wealth ethics
Posted in journal, theory on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By American standards, I’m middle class, and my family has been middle class and American for generations. Yet, as I traipse off to Paris, live in New York City, and spend my summer in various lake and beach houses, I wonder if my life style is close to approximating the upper class, or at [...]
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 [...]
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