Posts with category: New York
Moving to SF
Man, it’s been a few weeks, hasn’t it? Well, they’ve been busy. E3 was crazy, hellish, and fun; somehow Paul, Joystiq, and I all managed to make it out alive, which is a real bonus consider the fact that for a few nights there I thought I might keel over from exhaustion. Interviewing Shigeru Miyamoto [...]
Low tech
Living in New York, you’re essentially obligated to give up on certain creature comforts and niceties: space, cheap rent, and often times household appliances (see: space, cheap rent). In the last five years I’ve lived in this city I’ve never had a washer/dryer (not even in my building), nor have the counter space in my [...]
Paper’s Beautiful People 2006 out… featuring Pete and me
My old friend Dave just pinged me to let me know he got a copy of Paper‘s Beautiful People issue*, which means it must be nearing April. He sent some shots of the mag, and I’ll be honest: nothing on Cass Bird, who’s obviously an amazing photographer, but I’m not really feeling the photo the [...]
Back from SF
Well, I’m back! San Francisco was loads of fun, saw Veronica, Eric, Sarah, and some old friends, even and managed to observe a live TWiT podcast recording (where I’m sure I could be accused of whining about why I wasn’t guesting, among other things). It’s not as cold back here as I’d feared, but it’s [...]
Wiki Craigslist, please
Has anyone actually tried using Craigslist (in New York) to find a place in recent memory? Once every few months I go on to check out the market, see whether I’m still paying a good price for my apartment, what’s available, etc. But the amount of spam in the classifieds is unbelievable, and the amount [...]
Blizzard of 2006
Yup, it’s snowing here alright. And here I was thinking that we were gonna get off (relatively) scot free this year, then boom, we’re hit with over 27 inches of snow (which apparently beat the New York record of 26.4 inches in December of ’47, the most snow since the city started keeping track way [...]
Yum, soup
Reason number 230,401 to live in New York: 40 gallon trashcans half-filled with piping hot chicken noodle soup put out with the garbage for collection, still steaming and making a swath of 12th street smell like a sick day spent at home with the mom.
Happy new year!
Figured it might be nice to ring in the new year with the first from my forthcoming GREETINGS FROM WILLIAMSBURG postcard series (inspired by Mike + Em). Happy new year Robby Nordy, wherever you are.
Transit strike
The London Tube strike I witnessed while living there in 2002 was similarly chaotic to that of New York’s right now, but they share a sense of calm, if not resigned despair. Like waiting in line at the DMV. The sheer pandemonium the media might like to envision for the situation is absent, just frustration, [...]
Construction time again
One of the numerous “advantages” to living in an “up and coming” neighborhood (read: long since gentrified and co-opted — both in the literal and figurative vernacular) is the construction. That wakes you up at 8:00AM on a Saturday morning. Please bear witness here to the ringleader of this little operation, a rather crotchety old [...]
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