the library emailed me a few days ago to let me know that the anthony bourdain crime novel i'd reserved was going to get reshelved if i...

YE OLDE TRAMP-FOR-DAYS FOTOMEME (origin here ): 6 things i see every day the freedom tower mural at henry m. jackson playground, across t...

YE OLDE TRAMP-FOR-DAYS FOTOMEME Glorify me! For me the great are no match. Upon every achievement I stamp nihil . I never want to read an...

Helen warned me that pigeons—were I to emphasize them—could put people off, “ever since Woody Allen called them rats with wings.” (It was a...

at JFK i overheard her telling another member of our group that she'd once gone to the ukrainian border to examine the potatoes grown f...

i'm a really lousy multitasker, so it's terribly exciting when i manage to pull off something like rolling into a friend's daug...

i flew home from iceland on tuesday morning just before another flurry of earthquakes turned the aviation alert orange . i don't really...

my friends and i were hired as extras when flubber , a remake of the absent-minded professor starring robin williams, came to shoot its bas...

the missus and i headed out to sunset park last night for a rooftop screening of pulp: a film about life, death & supermarkets . the di...

i'd been working on a second post about my trip to hawaii , but i realized somewhere around the catholic church on my walk to the subwa...

i went on a press trip to hawaii last month. i told you about this, yes? i climbed into a plane in new york at dawn and hatched like a chic...

The Second World War was a manual-typewriter war. One would be tempted to say that never will typewriters be nearly so important in a war a...