Cement paving or something on my block in the middle of the night last month (11/6/10) Reminds me of one of my favorite Annie Lennox songs, Pavement Cracks, which was actually playing in my Chase branch the other day.

Sent by Jason Lader from Los Angeles, CA.

Waiting for the bus somewhere on Fifth Ave, there was this strong sweet smell of rotting leaves.  It was nice.  I can smell it now, looking at these photos. But, it reminded me that a few days earlier my brother and I were walking down Fifth and smelled a stronger tree smell, bordering on nauseous. [...]

Somewhere in NYC, I forget exactly where.

From one of my favorite Craigslist “for sale” postings on The Upper East Side: Click on screenshot below to see entire Craigslist posting. I forgot about Mr. Peanut but looking at him now I think he’s pretty cool!  Also, his name is Mr. Peanut.  Not some cheesy pun on peanut, but just what he is! [...]

I have too many blogs.  I think I will soon integrate my Pigeon blog and Vanity Plate blog with this one.  And I am going to write about whatever I want to write about.  Trying to keep each blog so narrowly focused has been holding me up from posting anything at all.  So, here goes [...]

This summer, I was walking up Fifth Avenue past 66th Street and happened to gaze up at one of those bronze memorial statues scattered throughout the city.  It was mostly backlit and hard to see and so at first my eye only caught a glimpse of one area which stopped me- the anguished facial expression [...]

I think this cat lives at New York News on Madison Ave between 90th and 91st Streets but here he/she is getting some attention in that new cupcake place, Eleni’s.  Photos taken October 13, 2010.

I was walking around the Upper East Side yesterday with my friend David (my cohort from A Very U.E.S. Night) and we decided to walk into the Duane Reade on 2nd Avenue and 79th Street to see if there was an “As Seen on TV” section which they have at the DR near my house. [...]

So here is one pic from the new big dog run.  Sorry, you can’t see much of it.