Archive for September, 2004

omosha jidosha

Surreptitiously snarked sitelinks from around the Web:

More stuff to do in beantown.(reg. req’d)-: Funny how articles written for “outsiders” are (almost) just as useful for the locals…
A three-page article on the lack of leg-room in Broadway theatres, most of you have probably heard this complaint pass my lips, now you can read 5,000 words [...]

My pointless and self-serving observations have a new home! I am superrrr-excited to be a part of Metroblogging Tokyo :BOUNCE!: BOUNCE!: :BOUNCE!:
There are lots of interesting and/or impressive people involved in this little project, so I hope you will check it out. Also, let’s be 110% honest, it’s hard enough for me [...]

gmail

If you want a gmail invite email me (they keep refilling my pot, so most people “must” have them by now :)).
If for some bizarre, inscrutable reason you read this junk and don’t actually know how to get in touch with me, comment the post, it goes to my inbox, and I’ll hook you up [...]

Perspective.

Manhattan has been compelled to expand skyward because of the absence of any other direction in which to grow. This, more than any other thing, is responsible for its physical majesty. It is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village-the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying [...]

Akatonbo

I think it’s time to pause this frantic search

To put the who, why, and what for first

I grab an answer I’m in such a rush

And for a while the thrill’s enough

But fantasy, the speeding blur, a world of ice

Sublimes in the friction of intimate life

The coffee, the chipped cups, two-by-two up the stairs

Yet I’m completely [...]