For the past two weeks, Shirley has been cat/housesitting gig at a beautiful townhome in Tribeca. When I say beautiful, I mean multimillion dollar, 7-level, floor-to-ceiling-window, mid-century-modern-design-furniture-from-wall-to-wall beautiful. (Shirley is gainfully employed and really doesn’t need to catsit for money, but I can see why she took this one.) As it is kind of creepy [...]
Category Archives: All Around the World
Home Sweet Home
12-Jul-07We’d driven more than an hour off the main interstate, into the Smoky Mountains to the town of Cherokee, North Carolina, only to discover that Santaland was closed. “Mo-ther-fuck-er,” Matt astutely proclaimed as we pulled into the deserted parking lot. My thoughts exactly. There wasn’t much to see, but we got out of the car [...]
Liberté, Egalité, Stupidité
17-Jan-05Instead of celebrating the new year amongst friends or family, I spent the final minutes of 2004 in a nearly vacant 767 en route to Paris. Flight attendants handed out plastic cups of champagne as the captain counted down the seconds to 2005 over the PA. There were multilingual cheers throughout the plane as we [...]
Not Exactly Bo and Luke Duke
23-Dec-04In June, to kick off “Freedom Summer 2004,” Matt and I embarked upon the Carpetbagger Tour, which would take us through the Dirty South and into Memphis, TN. Wanna see pictures? Go here.