Random Dispatches

I love bands who dance to their own music.  It’s as if they wrote their own songs as nobody else could create anything they could listen to.  Over the years I’ve found that these bands tend to put on the best shows.
And so it was last night at Webster Hall where Cut Copy tore the [...]

Check out what was floating in the Hudson today:

Every day I walk past Rozzo & Sons fish wholesalers. It’s a furnace of nasty smells on Ninth Ave. By the time I’m going to work they’ve been up for hours and the street has been reduced to a sea of boxes, melting ice and fishy water.
There are two things I love about it. [...]

So I went away for the weekend and someone in my neighbourhood was murdered.  However, before you panic, you can rest as the suspect is in custody.  In fact, he’s being interviewed right now.  This is the scene outside Precinct 10:

You can’t tell from this photo, but there are in fact six tv vans plus [...]

…running to the airport with a bag over your shoulder and having Wen casually remark that the bag is on its last legs. And at that exact moment the strap snaps and everything goes tumbling into the streets. If it wasn’t so funny I might have been frustrated.

Today Wen and I went for dinner on the LES. When we were done I made her go over to 27 Eldridge. It’s home to an unremarkable Chinese restaurant called Sheng Wan. We weren’t there for the food, rather because I’m reading Richard Price’s Lush Life right now and it revolves around a shooting that [...]

We all make mistakes, but this one (on 8th street) was particularly egregious.

The photo below is the corridor I walk down every day to get to work. I work in the Port Authority building; it’s a massive edifice that fills a block between 8/9th and 15/6th. I have no idea what used to be in the building, but now it’s got more bandwidth than Africa (honestly, that’s [...]

Based on my buddy Richard’s recommendations, I waited in line at Artichoke Basille’s Pizza for about 30 minutes today just to get two slices.  The verdict?  It was totally worth it.  The pizza was amazing: the artichoke pizza had the most gourmet mix of cheeses I’ve ever tried (can a cheese be succulent?  That’s the [...]

I’ve noticed three interesting things in New York over the past few weeks.
1) I don’t get nearly as much junk mail as I used to.  In fact, a few days this week I’ve had no mail at all (don’t know if that should make me happy or sad).  My guess is that the credit card [...]