I can’t believe I’ve neglected you for over a month. I’m sorry! This is all I can offer for now, some free association… The other day I was at the CHASE (formerly WAMU) on 88th and Madison, waiting in line to deposit a check. Only one teller was present and was busy helping a Hasidic [...]

Walking by the Food Emporium on 87th Street and Madison Ave I thought I saw an abandoned funky snowboard out of the corner of my eye.  I was disappointed to realize it was an ironing board. Wouldn’t it be so UNCOOL it’d be COOL to have a snowboard that looked like an old ironing board? [...]

Why would Omer Bhatti resemble Michael Jackson the way Jackson looked AFTER plastic surgery? Note: high cheekbones, chin dimple, and slim nose. Image via www.postchronicle.com Photo via www.nettavisen.no Young Michael Jackson: Image via www.psychologytoday.com Whatever, it’s all O.K. LINKS: Was Omer Bhatti Michael Jackson’s Secret Love Child? [Vancouver Sun] Jackson’s Secret Son No Secret to [...]

There’s a tin my family has been using to keep sewing pins in for 20 years.  It originally held black currant pastilles – one of my favorite tastes as a kid.  Seeing the tin the other day I became determined to find the pastilles once again.  I googled the brand Allenbury’s, which seems to have [...]

Rudy Burkhardt, Pedestrians, New York City, 1939 Photo via Met Museum There’s a show up at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of which I’ve come back to three times because I enjoy it so much, maybe I can convince you to come see it too… New York, N. Why? (1940) is a handmade scrapbook of [...]

A Very U.E.S. Night (for me was Tuesday, August 5, 2008) I broke my third power cord for my apple laptop. I managed to post a note on facebook asking if anyone had an extra before draining the reserve battery power playing boggle on facebook (known as Scramble.) Frustrated, I cut in half two old [...]

The 63rd Annual Park Avenue Christmas Tree Lighting took place tonight outside of The Brick Presbyterian Church on 91st Street. Having somehow never attended or even bumped into one of these ceremonies in my twenty-five years here, I never realized that the trees along the Park Avenue meridian are actually all “Christmas Trees.” Will I look at them a little differently now? Maybe. It’s one of those Platonic/ontological mysteries.

Right now there is a different kind of flower but I usually remember tulips. I have a system for walking from point A to point B in Manhattan – its goals are to save time and distance. However, I recently implemented an exception to my usual rules. In the old days, when I would approach [...]

As I was saying, I saw this car last night parked in the 80′s between Madison and Fifth, prompting this train of thought: Someone once suggeseted in one of my classes at art school that in our consumer culture we only have the illusion of choice when it comes to what we consume. This is [...]

I know lately it might seem like the journal has been focusing on superficial aspects of the area – cabbage, signage, etc. But I hold all of these things in my line of vision as suspect; suspect of containing an interesting story, an anecdote; or of possessing the potential to inspire some meditation leading to [...]