Got a ticket this morning, and had to stand on a traffic island with Brooklyn Bridge-bound cars whizzing by while I waited for Officer Illegible to write me up. Apparently, you aren't actually allowed to ride a bike from the bike lane on the street to the bike lane on the bridge. Because you have to enter the crosswalk to do so. You're supposed to wait until all the cars coming up Tillary get a green turn signal, and then cross their path to get to the bridge.
I heard a story about kids and their incredible spelling, but the thing that secretly confused me was this: I thought that Johnny Cakes were a southern thing. And I thought they were sort of a variation on corn bread. I've never heard of them having meat in them. It ...
I'm working on the whole "not that sort of blog" thing. I don't want to whine. Or, I do want to whine, but I won't. So no "ten things I hate about you, oh world." Still, yesterday, I took the train and sat below a woman with deep bags under ...
In better days, he said, "you could sit out on your lawn chair until 4 a.m. drinking espresso, and no one would bother you." N has accused me (not unfairly) of thinking everything is bad. Luisa keeps list of things that are making her happy, and coincidently, she doesn't ...
It is a scary thing when a bunch of DIY punks start trying to find a million dollars, but here we are, looking for exactly that. Scary like daunting, like an uphill climb, like where on earth are we going to get money like that. The older I get (yeah, yeah) the more I realize the importance of no Rio not just as an arts space for the likes of me, but as an all ages punk venue. That doesn't exist in New York City anymore (did it ever? dunno.) -- a place were 16 year olds can get together and make music, see shows, be both safe and unsupervised. I think that is immeasurably important and it is a tiny slice of what happens at ABC no Rio. So I think everyone should join me in supporting the building fund.
On Saturday, December 9, the debut of the Composting Green Map of Manhattan will be celebrated at the Union Square Greenmarket from noon until 2pm. Get your free copy there! Created by Green Map System and Lower East Side Ecology Center, this pocket-size map shows you where to take your kitchen ...
A 22 year-old, friend of friends, was killed on the West Side greenway on Friday night. I didn't know him, and I don't have a lot of deep thoughts to share about him, but I am fuming about a few things about his death, and thinking a lot about the general deadliness of cars and what it would take to reduce their menace.
Meredith brought me a copy of the zine her third graders put out last week. They've been taking photos and writing about their neighborhoods in her afterschool program. Diamond likes math, puppies and kittens. Bryant doesn't like bricks (too hard) and Jayne doesn't like the cement (it hurts). What stands ...
I might have to create a tag for lazyweb if I keep this up. This time, though, I did try to use the interweb myself. Google? Wikipedia? done, to no avail. Last night, I got all the bones out on the table, all mixed up and my neighbors were looking at me blankly.
a major source of distraction. I know I've talked about this before, I want it so bad I had to password protect it, but the Freitag Factory is back: Thanks for catching that one, Scott.
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