Posted in General Thoughts, New York City on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The news that restaurant Florent is closing on June 29 doesn’t come as a complete surprise; the Meatpacking District has been utterly transformed over the past ten years by the influx of high-end boutiques, restaurants, and fashion stores. But at the same time a part of me feels aghast at the disappearance of this little [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, New York City, tagged idle thoughts, whining on April 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
What’s the point of living in a modern industrial society if it takes 12-16 weeks to get the sofa you want?
Even though I passed into adulthood a long time ago, I have, absurdly enough, yet to buy my first honest to goodness sofa. Though it can be something of a tricky proposition in New York, [...]
Posted in New York City, tagged architecture, Columbia University, Manhattanville on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Deadlines are now bearing down on me with such pinpoint precision and blinding intensity, the only thing I can rationally do right now is procrastinate. So here goes.
The other day a former professor invited me to visit her class next week, as Mark Naison, the author of White Boy, is scheduled to be a guest lecturer. This reminded [...]
Posted in New York City, tagged food coop, Park Slope, shopping on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Many years ago I visited my college roommate, who was finishing up his PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. An ardent socialist (at the time), he took me to his local food coop. It was a small and, to my recollection, rather dismal place, with bunches of soggy lettuce and some rather [...]
Posted in New York City, tagged guitar playing, Music, NYC subway on November 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
KH Keichi
Sometimes I love living in New York. Entering the West 4th Street subway late last night, I heard somone doing what I thought was an imaginative riff off of Rhys Chatham’s ‘Guitar Trio,’ or something like it - my favorite kind of music. Instead it’s this young Japanese guy just doing his thing, in [...]
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