May 2011
59 posts
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to...”
– Jack Kerouac
Here I go. JFK redeye to Rome. Arrivederci!
Andiamo
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
Erin is officially in Rome. Tomorrow we meet, backpack clad, at an unmarked B&B in the back alley of Via dei Tre Pupazzi in Vatican City. Without cell phones or a lick of Italian. Around one p.m. Wish us luck.
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A love letter
Dear Italy,
This is what I want from you. What I expect of you. What I dream of. What you’ll give me…
Everything.
I want your culture and your people and your food and your smells and your sounds and your crumbling facades and your dripping gelato cones and your rising, wafting scents of parmigiano reggiano.
I want your sun-battered faces, your old men in caps, your apron-donning...
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
Truth. I almost can.
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Sucker for a photo booth.
Drunk and sober...
…high and low, off and on, up and down, lost and found, New York has been my city. It’s a vast mystery to me, like it is to most New Yorkers, how this ugly lovely town became my lovely ugly town, this gorgeous rubbish heap of a place, this city of the timeless now, with little of the style of Paris, little of the beauty of Rome, little of the history of London, and not even much of the...
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The world didn't end.
Tell ‘em, Emile (mi amore). In fact, it’s a magnificent day. Time to be out in it. Happy Saturday, my good people.
WatchFleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t...”
– William Least Heat Moon
I feel footloose and stir crazy. My JFK departure is in just one week. I can see that full pack laying on the floor next to me - my lady in waiting - as my legs bounce about beneath the desk. My heart beating quick and rhythmic pants. My eyes holding a firm gaze upon the...
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber Ren has officially landed in Europe. Her adventure has just begun. A little over a week till I join her.
Rumor has it...
…the Big Gay Icecream Truck is parking!
Figuratively, of course. The innovative mobile creamery will still be hitting the streets, as long as the food truck craze continues, but they might also be opening up a brick and mortar storefront in the EV next month! On East 7th between 1st and A. Aka a few short blocks from my limp body and dark apartment on a hungover Saturday...
A MIX 106.5 favorite from my pre-teen days...
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I’d known since I was five...
…that I was going to live in New York eventually and that everything in between was just a horrible intermission. I’d spent those sixteen years imagining what New York was going to be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical, fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live in; a place where if you really wanted something, you might be able to get it; a place...
Ciao, Ren!
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
Have a stellar time in Belgium and the Netherlands. Meet you in Rome in less than two weeks!
“There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”
AIDS WALK NYC
Tomorrow.
If you don’t have plans, go.
10 AM
Southeast corner of Central Park (59th Street and 5th Ave)
This is a local cause; donations go directly back into the tristate community.
Register here.
Rooftop Films
The 15th annual NYC underground outdoor summer film festival kicks off tonight.
Here’s a sampling of some flicks I want to catch:
The City Dark, a moving film about lightness and the disappearance of darkness in America. A societal evolution through technology, away from the natural. Engulfing ourselves in the artificial illumination of our desires, of cities, of modern day - but removing...
Let it build.
home
waking up: to songbirds, to wind in the trees, from the sun reflecting off the water, from the dogs barking at passing deer, dad descending the staircase, mom making breakfast, because i actually slept.
creak down the old spiral. to the best cup of tea, to the front porch rocking chair, dad’s gritty coffee, soft boiled eggs in the sunlit living room, plates on laps, blue and white...
Just bought this baby for the Cinque Terre. Hopefully it’ll stay on as I swan dive off some unknown cliff into the Ligurian Sea. If not, così è la vita.
New York it is easy to love:
summer New York
Christmas New York
I am in love with somebody who is also in New York
meeting pockets of new people! always! New York
free culture New York
24 hour diner New York
liberal New York
lol I just passed Jill Zarin New York
employed New York
rooftop party nighttime skyline New York
Brooklyn flea New York
Bronx 3 AM joking with strangers on the sidewalk New York
New Yorks...
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Toro y Moi - Still Sound
FOODIE FILES: PAQUITOS
If you’re lucky enough to live in the East Village or somewhere near the Lower East Side, you’ve probably overheard, more than once, the name of the most popular man in town - Paquito.
I don’t know who Paquito is, exactly, but I do know that he makes a MEAN taco. And for that, I love him. But its not just the tacos - I have spent the past year dabbling through the delivery menu...
WatchIt’s Friday night. A perfect one. What’re you doing inside?
Get up. Off that couch. Out of bed. Crack a window. Call and cancel that take-out.
Now,…change out of that soft t-shirt you’re wearing. I know its hard. Drop those sweats, leave them on the floor - you’ll clean tomorrow. Shower, shmower…you just need something with color - its spring, its official -...
