I feel asleep last night while listening to NPR. When I woke up, I really wanted a tote bag.

You can have your Flatiron Building and your Statue of Liberty, your Yankee Stadium and your Times Square. I’m interested in the other stuff, the less obvious and more idiosyncratic. So today I went on a minor pop culture exodus. Here was my first stop:

This is 129 West 81st Street, an address that won’t mean [...]

Remember David?
He played live tonight as part of some sort of music and arts festival. It was in a swanky bar on Water Street, so I made my way out to Brooklyn. Anytime I leave Manhattan, I revert to some kind of overly cautious tourist, frightened of getting lost in the gray mean city. Brooklyn’s [...]

What an awful day for weather. The sky was the color of wet, disappointing charcoal as I fumbled for my umbrella during my daily promenade to the B train.
The fine folks in human resources had to give me (and many more) their orientation this morning. I’ve been plugging along for five weeks now, so I [...]

On quiet Thursday nights such as this one, when all the streetlights flicker to life and the all hot dog vendors push their carts home, when the last stock has been traded and the last pedestrian has been honked at, it’s nice to take stock of oneself. How am I doing?
Pretty well, I’d say. It’s [...]

I don’t receive text messages very often and I’m okay with that. But on the occasions that I do receive one, I jump up in the air and click my heels, for it’s been confirmed: someone was thinking of me.
Let me share one I got today:
“[Name withheld] smells and it permeates my couch. I’ve known [...]

I saw Billy Bob Thornton in the hallway today. He was wearing a sleeveless shirt, exposing two arms filled with tasteless tattoos. His sideburns nearly met at his chin. And he was eating a plateful of pancakes.
I almost judged him for his tasteless style until I remembered that Angelina Jolie used to kiss him.

I realized this morning that I wear a lot of flannel buttoned shirts. When I’m turned into an action figure, make sure I’m wearing something striped and tasteful. It seems to be my natural state. Other recommendations for my action figure:

sweats at inconvenient times!
now with more self-loathing!
comes with free delusions of grandeur!
new push-button sarcasm!

Doug posed [...]

“He illuminated the maze brilliantly, even if he couldn’t show us the way out.”
-A.O. Scott
“You didn’t need to read his sentences twice. They were brilliant and also colloquial. How he pulled that off is a literary voodoo I might never understand. To say he will be missed is an understatement for the ages.”
-Josh Dean
“If I [...]

David is recording an album even though he shouldn’t be.
NYU has an audio booth for its film majors. It’s usually a vehicle for recording sound effects and voiceovers, but today it was serving a higher purpose – music, and lots of it.
I deftly ferried my banjo from Harlem to the outskirts of Greenwich Village, and [...]

Me: My beard grows much more quickly here. I have to shave twice as often.
Him: Sounds like someone’s getting a little more manly.
Me: Either that or I should stop drinking the tap water.

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I just met my housemate’s girlfriend and I all could think was, “I have heard you have an orgasm.”

I had today off. No show being taped means that no script is produced, and that makes a script intern useless. I slept in and loved it.It’s not that simple, though.
Of course I can’t have a day off without having an incredibly vivid dream starring five people I work with, in which we talk about [...]

The show taped early today, so we were finished with work at 5:00 PM. I was horrified. Usually I’ll walk out of work around 7:30 PM and be home by 8:00. There’s nothing to do after that but get ready for bed, read a book, and watch a movie. It’s an easy system to adopt. [...]