Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
Me on my Brompton folding bike in February 2003, right after purchasing in London, UK. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. My Brompton folding bike got stolen tonight. It was locked to a "No Parking" sign on Broadway and 13th Street. Sometime between 7:30 and 9:30pm, someone took it from in front…
This Saturday I went to a lovely installation / performance art piece called "Angels and Accordians" in the magnificent Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. My dancer/jewelry designer/vintage hound friend Laura was performing as one of the angels, so I knew it was going to be fun. It was a nearly perfect Fall day to be viewing…
So this is the official word from Joss Whedon, the creator of short-lived, much-beloved scifi series "Firefly": Hi boys and odd, smooth, compellingly bumpy non-boys. I’m in Liverpool, on Alexis’ lap… sorry, laptop, checking in and seeing all sorts of nonsense about a sequel to something… There’s no sequel, no secret project regarding Serenity or…
Ben Popken at Gothamist did some additional sleuthing on my e-commerce woes with the Gift Assistant . Ben even managed to track down the cell phones of the proprietors of the business, who he said would refund me the $130 if I called. Well it’s been three weeks since I’ve called and no luck. Back…
After a very long day I headed out at around midnight with my roommate to check out what was going on at Ground Zero, which is only a couple of blocks from my house. It was a circus of humanity, a riot of emotions and colors and noise that looked like it was going to…
The killer tiki website Humu Kon Tiki has scanned and re-posted one of the most entertaining and informative articles in the retro-style magazine Atomic, edited by my old friend Leslie Rosenberg. Entitled "Build a Real Tiki Bar" the article ran in the Fall 1999 issue. Balancing helpful advice on how to construct one of these…
As the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attack approaches, I am feeling nostalgic and sad about the loss of the “Greatest Bar on Earth” on the 107th Floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. It was my most direct connection to the WTC, my regular Saturday night hangout for awhile. The “Greatest…
Cindy spotted this bumper sticker interchange on the corner of 23rd St and 2nd Avenue, Manhattan.
Thanks to a reporter friend (you rock, Alligator!), I saw an advanced screening of the Outkast vanity project "Idlewild" on Wednesday. (This is not a movie review, but if you are dying to know, the movie was just okay.) As an amateur lindy hopper and hip hop dancer, I was excited about the prospects of…