Right Here, Right Now
Where were you on 9/11? That seems like something someone–no one I know but a kind of someone–would ask. And in fact it is the first Google autosuggestion when you type: where were you… I […]
Queens 4 Life
Queens on Screen
The moment I’ve been waiting for is finally here: tonight FOX’s Weird Loners, the show I only care about because I have an irrational possessiveness of Ridgewood, Queens even though I haven’t lived there in […]
Updated
I’m going to pretend to be a design blogger for a moment (minus the well-staged dslr photos–I don’t have a wide-angle lens that can capture full rooms anyway). Now that I’m well into month three […]
Destination Unknown
We're #1. And by we, I mean Queens. With yesterday's Apple store announcement and now this hot travel destination news, it's just a matter of time before the Brooklyn to Queens shift happens in earnest. […]
Greens/In the Red
With the exception of hanging artwork (the scale is all wrong–what I'd like to hang as single pieces aren't large enough for the walls anymore) and getting the bathroom light fixture I bought professionally wired […]
Walking the Talk
I’ve become a human pinball on the nine-block stretch of Roosevelt Avenue between my apartment and the express E stop. No matter how I walk, slower, faster, on the right, on the left, I end […]
Bedding
The prospect of getting to sleep in a bed my last might before getting to sleep in a number of Bay Area beds was exciting enough to motivate me to open the 38-pound box, pull […]
Kitchen Confidential
I just won this 1970s chandelier on eBay, one step deeper into my new dangerous world of distraction: home decor for the home I don’t technically own yet. Where I used to procrastinate by browsing […]