At 4:16pm I was the 219th person to vote at my table.

You may have noticed The Upper East Side has become infested with rats. Not those rats (although they live here too)- I mean large balloon rats.
On April 19, a giant inflatable rat stood anchored next to the awning of 1040 Fifth Avenue at 85th Street. Two workmen stood nearby in front of a parked van, […]

Whenever I mention the building I grew up in, I invariably get, “Oooh, that’s the building with the flag” or “that’s a fucking big flag on that building.” It is. After September 11 and the proliferation of stars and stripes running up Park Avenue, any building without a flag was suspect in its lack of, […]

I went to two supposedly top private schools, Spence and Dalton, for middle school and high school, respectively, and for all the pep talks they give you about how you can make a difference in the world, they never tell you specifically how easy it is to go to these local meetings, which are open […]

Sent to me from Glenn McAnanama
Discussion: Greenmarkets for the Upper East Side
Community Board 8 Street Fairs Committee
February 23, 2006, 7:30pm
NY Blood Center
310 East 67th St. (Bet. 1st/2nd Ave.)
Conference Room #1
Help bring a green market to your neighborhood.
Green markets bring fresh, locally grown food directly from the farmers without middlemen.
Why Support Local Food?
1. Locally grown food […]

This is just the beginning of a continuing investigation, you might even say focus-group, into why someone chooses to be Republican. Since most people know, and therefore, for now, most of the readers of this zine, will be ultra-liberal, even Socialist (yes, even one Communist), it seems fruitless to write some Bush-bashing piece that […]