I’m beginning to think that the people at the New Yorker purposely deliver their magazine to Brooklyn subscribers one day after they have landed in Manhattan mailboxes. Every Tuesday, I enviously watch commuters flip through the latest issue, shamed to know that the only “Talk of the Town” that I’m hip to is now last [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Of Counties and Cars
12-Apr-06Check Your Head, and Your Blood
07-Apr-06At 29, I don’t know that I’m really prepared to contemplate my own mortality. But two weeks ago, that’s exactly what I was confronted with, as I anxiously awaited test results that could have detected cancer in my bloodstream. For a week, I lost sleep and ate little, as my mind was dominated by images [...]
He Doesn’t Speak the Language
04-Apr-06Here’s a great piece in the Times about the dangers of getting Chinese character tattoos without knowing the language. Ha ha. Also, who sent me a can of “very large snails” in the mail?