Archive for October, 2005

Costume Drama
Monday, October 31st, 2005

Halloween in Manhattan is an unrivalled social equalizer. What other day of the year can a pedestrian behold a walking cardboard Ipod halt on the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette to converse with a roving pack of samurai in giant purple afros. The ingrained collective boundaries we erect each morning before leaving our apartments instantly [...]

Ticking Clock
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

It’s somewhere near miraculous that I’ve held on to my job this long. When readers first poured in to this site, I never thought I would still be maintaining the blog six months later. It was a fact then, and is now, that any day at work could hold some climactic scene involving a grim [...]