I mean, Williamsburg isn’t all happy neighborly interactions. A week or two ago, there were these three guys dressed as pirates cruising the block in a red convertible. Every so often they’d park the car and get out and do something incomprehensible (at least from where I was watching) involving a big glass fishtank, passerby [...]
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Posted in daily life, Uncategorized | No Comments »>Earlier this week, while I was trying to dig my car out of a snowbank, I found myself having a lot of conversations with neighbors. (For the record: I did not put my car in a snowbank. I very carefully parked it, before the storm, about midway down the block, so that I wouldn’t be [...]
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Posted in daily life, Uncategorized | No Comments »>The New York City marathon route went right past our apartment, and Matt and I (and a couple of our friends) spent a lot of the day watching runners go by. I was sick all weekend, on and off, but still managed to drag myself, sore throat and all, out of bed and down to [...]
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Posted in personal | No Comments »>1. Hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, oven-baked. (14 July 2008, 8 am.) 2. Pretend this is a picture of the antique Hugos. (14 July 2008, noonish.) 3. Union Square Station. (14 July 2008, 3 pm.) 4. I haven’t -quite- forgotten how to cook. (14 July 2008, 5 pm.) 5. Approaching sunset. (14 July 2008, 8 pm.) 6. It’s [...]
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Posted in personal | No Comments »>1. The view from the kitchen window. (Saturday, 12 July 2008, 7 am.) 2. Greenmarket lettuce. (12 July 2008, 10 am.) 3. Bedford Avenue hosts a marching band. (12 July 2008, 2 pm.) 4. My mother’s backyard. (12 July 2008, 6 pm.) 5. Sunday morning. (13 July 2008, 9 am.) 6. Even puppies like muffins. [...]
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Posted in personal | 1 Comment »>I’ve been so remiss, I know. The internet comes to our house on Friday, after which point I’ll be around more (and posting more, including the backlogged half-written trip-log posts). I’m on borrowed neighborhood internet at the moment, which might disappear at any moment, so I’ll be quick. We have an apartment! Which we are [...]
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