Subway Doppelgangers
No matter how good I think I look when I leave the house (and I thought I looked pretty ok this morning) when I get a ghoulish, shadowy glimpse of my reflection in the subway […]
Mostly Me
Hold Shelf Success
This morning an automated email from Brooklyn Public Library informed me that the system's single copy of The Puglist at Rest was waiting for me on the holds shelf at the Carroll Gardens branch. Coincidence, […]
Townies
For no other reason beyond simply wanting to (that’s a good reason to do things, I’ve started to discover) I ended up in Southeastern, Virginia, right where it nearly meshes with Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina […]
Yes, There Was An Internet in 2001
A few weeks ago I kept typing 2001 instead of 2011 (my typing skills in general have started diminishing over the past few year). I would not say that I yearn for the past, despite […]
Working For the Weekend
On the AirBART shuttle from the Coliseum station to the Oakland airport I spied a Carrow’s and a Red Lion, two chains I thought had ceased to exist just because I hadn’t encountered one in […]
Where the Story Ends
Last week while in Portland, Oregon I reluctantly read an article titled A Twee Grows in Brooklyn (and the twee keeps growing) about the Portlandification of said borough. I also turned 39 while in the […]
True Calling
I just wanted to say—quickly, I’m trying to get my shit together so I can wake up angrily at 4am to get to JFK for a 7:30am flight—that I am a hair genius. My blue […]
The Blue Hairs
I think I’m about to do something fucked up to my hair—and I’m going to bore you cross-eyed talking about it. Yes, I’m back on my let-it-go gray kick (though, this afternoon I caught a […]
An Ever-Expanding Chasm
Discovering that the universe (at least on Twitter) is passionate about the serial comma (I’ve never used it for no reason in particular) is like when I realized that all women pay to get their […]
Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer
So far I’ve managed to stave of one scourge of advancing age: an interest in genealogy, the bane of librarians everywhere. I don’t have a family, on either side, that shares lots of lore or […]