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Umbrellas are one of humanity's unheralded inanimate objects. They shelter us from the elements, but they are disposable. They are left ...

This has been a fun week for me, and my traffic. Boosted by my friends at the New York Times , we hit 44,444 hits today. I always like to se...

On February 26, 2008, I sent the following missive to Crocs Customer Service, through their website. It has been eleven days and I haven...

Last weekend I received a nice note from poet Stefi Weisburd thanking me for posting her poem "Little God Origami" here . Ms. Wei...

I am very excited. Read here about how excited I was when the Trader Joe's in Manhattan first opened almost two years ago.

Back on February 23, I spotted two new Poetry in Motion posters ( here and here ) on two separate buses. I've been keeping an eye out, ...

Just skimmed the recent New Yorker anniversary issue. Of note was a piece of personal history by David Owen about nicknames (a little bit...

A visitor recently chimed in over on Tattoosday about a similar blog focusing on tattoos, but with a more specialized slant. It is called C...

I had my first encounter with a Smart Car Fortwo on Tuesday on the corner of 22nd and 8th Avenue. What a sight to behold! And fitting into ...

Here's another glorious gratuitous indoor soccer dad post (GISDP) from Sunday, February 24, 2008. The second quarter is about to begin. ...

One of the people I have come across in the blogosphere (and thus a "victim" of my occasional meme-ing) is Mat Giordano of Housto...

This was the view out our window Saturday morning. At first we were baffled. But we came to learn that under that snow, within the rectangle...

I love malasadas. Easy to do since I rarely have them. Tough for a former Hawaii resident living in New York, no doubt. But I have a got mal...

I am calling this a New York City icicle, although it could occur in other cities, I guess. Any city-dweller surely will bemoan the phenomen...

Sure enough, on a different bus, the B64, I spotted a second new poster of the day. This one from the New York City poet Grace Paley , who d...

I always remotely blog whenever I see a new Poetry in Motion poster. And when I see a new one, that usually means one or two are others are ...

The snow has stopped and we are on a downtown B train headed home. The Museum of Natural History rarely fails to disappoint. IMAX film on di...

(Later) Butterfly exhibit at the museum. Always a treat, moreso when you enter the hunid chamber filled with floating colorful creatures and...

It is snowing in New York City. I already had a scheduled day off, so I am not inconvenienced by the snow, merely in awe of it. This is our ...

Ok, I've been working on this for over a week (although it's probably hard to tell), but here it is, finally. Eric Valentine over at...