August 2011
8 posts
Hurricane? Really?
Welcome to NYC, GQ!
Here’s a little earthquake.
Full up on natural events yet (because I refuse to call an earthquake I didn’t feel at all while walking around MoMA a “disaster”)?
Then here’s a tasty little herrrkane for afters!
Yep, my last week in NYC is all herrrkaned-up thanks to Hurricane Irene and its associated impending DOOOOOOM. The news is jumping up and...
Across Avenue A and East 12th Street...in the...
Cats and kittens, I’ve had my first scary NYC experience.
It involved two hoodlums, or, as I would call them in UK, YOOFS.
The other night, a hot, stinky, sweaty Manhattan night, I took a slightly back street b/w Ave A and B (past a mental asylum I noted later, in the light of another day) and these two young persons walked past me in the opposite direction. Walking and...
A microphone does not a talent make
Cats. Kittens. I and my friends have been initiated into the ways of New York in the form of…
AN OPEN MIKE NIGHT.
On Monday 15 August 2011, I attended a venue on The Bowery with two UK friends and 2 Australians. I hasten to add before the onslaught of mania begins that this - yes, THIS - was one of the finest AND most terrifying nights of my life.
Deep breath…
Where to begin?
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It's like in the MOVIES!
Cats and Kittens!
I have SO many pages of notes from my first three days but no time to write! Where to start? Alpha order? No! Point form!
Food establishments named after a “Ray” spotted so far: 3
Bagels consumed: 5
Coffee refills in a diner: 1
Pizza slices consumed: 2
Budweisers consumed: 2
Coopers Sparkling consumer: 6 (it’s cheaper here than at home, and I was feeling...
At least you can polish the fenders...
I have accidentally become a positive thinker.
(And the conjugation of the word “accident” is an excellent one to use, in my flesh-wound riddled existence).
And this is in spite of some of my friends presuming I’m having a whinge. I must protest!
I have, in fact become more obviously optimistic than I ever was before. And I was optimistic before, trust me. I was and am a...
