Monthly Archives: September 2009
A Bedroom Safari
For the last few nights, rather than eating, I have been food. For the first time since the start of summer mosquitos have invaded, pouring into my apartment through the ducts of unused air-conditioners to feast of my sleeping form. … Continue reading
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Fruit 2.0
The sticker on a plastic basket of strawberries I bought yesterday is demanding I join something called “Berry Blast!” which claims to be “the on-line connection for berry lovers!” Just what does that mean? I suppose I am a berry … Continue reading
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Applenomics!
Apples! Apples apples! I’ve been eating an awful lot of them lately. In addition to bagels, they have been my chief sustenance and joy. After two weeks of this diet I’ve developed a skin with the texture of cream cheese … Continue reading
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How To Be a City Boy
A New Yorker isn’t just some dude who knows his way around town. The express stops of the Lexington Avenue line, the current exhibition at P.S.1, the names of three or four quiet Green Point bars—these could be taught by … Continue reading
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Cheeseburger! (Part II)
When last we left our heroes, they were charging around the streets of fancy Nashville, hunting down villainous, lane clogging joggers and administering cheeseburgers to the backs of their heads. Meanwhile, in New York City, their peers were up to … Continue reading
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Like Spooning With Disappointment
A recent development has left me wondering, is there any shame in measuring out one’s life in coffee spoons? For Eliot this was the absolute bottom in the pit of middle class existence, but a lack of coffee-spoon is proving … Continue reading
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