Weebl and Bella
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January 29, 2006
January 27, 2006
January 26, 2006
Do Not Be Fooled By Attractive Decor
That's all I really wanted to say.
January 24, 2006
Watch Me Move to NYC
Remember conversion class? Remember how much fun it was to read about? Well, things are only going to get better as I go through a conversion of an entirely different sort. Today I almost rode my 1970's era bianchi women's bicycle onto the BQE! Yes, I made a turn that looked okay, perhaps a little bit dodgy, until I noticed the big white arrow and a sign that said "express" instead of "local". Don't worry, I didn't do it. I rode up on to the sidewalk like a big dork and walked a few blocks back to a place that looked like it could be Carroll Gardens.
But it WASN'T Carroll Gardens! It was RED HOOK! Red Hook and seagulls and desolate parks with the biggest housing project complex I've ever seen. Imagine no cars and a lot of bored-looking folks hanging around a Stalinesque landscape. That's where I was and I did my best to look tough. I think that involves seeming kind of blank and uninterested. I'm probably wrong. In any case, I called my husband at work in Manhattan and asked him to pull up a map on his computer. It was then that I thought that when you're not sure, you should just move fast and hope you're right.
I'm home now. I had a chai in Park Slope and read a parental advice column in the local paper. Lots of folks there. One guy looked at me and seemed to emanate sympathy, as though I looked so messed up that I might as well have yelled out to anyone who would listen: "I spent two and a half hours riding my bike through the sketchiest parts of Brooklyn!". Of course I'm imagining this. But I'm home now--with a cat.
January 23, 2006
This is a photo I took in France during the Tour
January 15, 2006
Gimme a Kiss, Cupcake
My favorite thing (so far) about NYC is that I see cupcakes everywhere. Sometimes I see really big ones and sometimes I see super tiny wee ones as samples at the supermarket. Each time I see one it is as though my midwestern past and ancestry is winking at me, as if to say "Get it? We don't live in Ohio anymore but that doesn't mean we can't eat CUPCAKES!".
January 11, 2006
Would You Do This?
Would you buy a scratching post (for your cats) at a manhattan cat boutique that trades in tonkinese and other exotic cat breeds and take three trains (the 4, the D, and the 2) home? Would you sweat and sweat and sweat and feel like the stupidest person alive? Would you sling one end of it (the smaller end, not the base that the cats can balance on) over one side of your hips and the wider end on the other side and end up taking far more than your allotted seat share just because you love your cats THAT MUCH? Well, I would.
January 02, 2006
Best Op-Ed Piece Ever
Larry David, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness has made me look forward to the distressingly future-sounding year 2006. In 2006, I kind of expected everyone to have multi-functional flippers. This hasn't happened yet, and that's OK.