NYRSF reading tonight!
I hope you intrepid New Yorkers will brave the cold and the wind tonight at the South Street Seaport to attend March's entry in the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series. I...
ManhattanA collection of 44 posts
Winter haiku
Snowflakes ride updrafts in Brownian reels outside my twelfth-floor window....
Exploding news
Gawker is reporting a "huge explosion" at Times Square, in front of the Conde Nast Building. I hear sirens....
Bad news for Starbuck's
From the New York section of this morning's Sun: Mormons Make Inroads on Upper East Side I'm just thinking of all the poor coffee vendors on the Upper East. How many of...
Happy birthday, Robert Burns!
Yesterday's Times had an interesting and often amusing article about how haggis in America has mutated into something rather tastier than one can gets in Scotland, thanks in part to the fact that FDA...
Il a neigé
Holy shit, it was snowing when I got out of the subway! Of course, by the time I got to the office I could see blue sky and the snow had almost petered out. And now...