To offer my entirely unsolicited opinion, I think the very coolest personal graphic I've seen on LiveJournal belongs to Baldanders. (It was just one of those things that had to be said.)
The way pedestrians traveling in a group always spread out laterally to block the greatest possible width of sidewalk.
I have a certain ex who was always very . . . willful. Once we came to a corner together in the city. A mother and child shared the corner with us. There was no traffic, but the mother was telling the child to wait for the light to change before crossing. The
What gene is it that humans share with dogs that compels us to dash across a busy street just before the cars arrive? I call the intersection where Broadway, Columbus and 64th all come together Eugenics Corner. To get across to Lincoln Center, you effectively must cross three streets, with
My introductory karate lesson went fine last week. █████ and I had a private session with Sensei Lopez in a small room in the basement of the Tiger Schulmann studio in Manhattan. I think we both did pretty well, although after rehearsing our kicks I was tired enough that spots were
I mentioned a couple of celebrity sightings a few posts ago. We used to have a whiteboard here at the office that listed the nearby celebrity sightings for everyone in our group. We also had an elaborate set of rules about what counted as a celebrity sighting. Public appearances didn&
By the way, for all you closet Sesame Street fans out there, I thought I'd point out that we have at long last made your favorite old songs from the show available on our Web site. Just try Sesame Street Radio if you really want to annoy everyone
The visionary whose stories foretold the Sony Walkman, who imagined virtual reality at a time when there were 400 television sets in the entire state of California, does not own a computer. He does not like the screens. "Computers are for people who make mistakes," he says. "
I'm taking my first karate lesson tomorrow. I'm a little anxious. I think the last time I had formal private extracurricular instruction in sport of any kind, I was about ten. The sport was gymnastics. The second week of class, I came off the uneven parallel
I'm looking at a map at CNN.com and feeling like tossing my cookies. I mean, the facts aren't as bad as all that. Going into the election this morning, Gore has 181 electoral votes locked up (12 states plus DC), to Bush's 224
Sometimes we do things in the name of keeping ourselves sane and call it a little reward. (Really, we are keeping ourselves insane by indulging obsessive-compulsive behavior, but let's not split hairs.) Usually that little tickle at the back of my head can be soothed by going
Okay, I'm a little slow on the uptake, but finally I get it: MOSTLY SUNNY MILD JACLYN SMITH It's Charlie's Angels week at Biography. Pretty boring week for weather poetry. (Btw, after all this talk about childhood television, I have to point out that
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