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(Broad St & Beaver St, Manhattan)

(South Ferry, Manhattan)

(Marla)

The Monday is Cat Week Experience:
Box Cat
By The Window
Paws Revisited
Chinatown
Feline Felicitations
Hollaback Cat
Black, White, Trendy
Bidalasana
Marla in the Superunknown
Four Felines
Hello Beckoning Kittys
Paws

(Riverside, RI)

(Dari Bee, Riverside, RI)

Related post:
Rhode Trip: Ice Cream At Dari Bee

(Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan)

More Mei Lai Wah:
Service
Ordering
No Smoking Inside
Monday Is Cat Week: Box Cat
My Cup Of Tea
Uniform
July, Forthwith!
Three Questions for Karen

(Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan)

More Mei Lai Wah:
Ordering
No Smoking Inside
Monday Is Cat Week: Box Cat
My Cup Of Tea
Uniform
July, Forthwith!
Three Questions for Karen

(Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan)

More Mei Lai Wah:
No Smoking Inside
Monday Is Cat Week: Box Cat
My Cup Of Tea
Uniform
July, Forthwith!
Three Questions for Karen

(Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan)

More Mei Lai Wah:
Monday Is Cat Week: Box Cat
My Cup Of Tea
Uniform
July, Forthwith!
Three Questions for Karen

(Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan)

The Monday is Cat Week Experience:
By The Window
Paws Revisited
Chinatown
Feline Felicitations
Hollaback Cat
Black, White, Trendy
Bidalasana
Marla in the Superunknown
Four Felines
Hello Beckoning Kittys
Paws

More Mei Lai Wah:
My Cup Of Tea
Uniform
July, Forthwith!
Three Questions for Karen

(Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan)

More Mei Lai Wah:
Uniform
July, Forthwith!
Three Questions for Karen

(Mei Lai Wah Coffee House, 64 Bayard St, Manhattan)

More Mei Lai Wah:
July, Forthwith!
Three Questions for Karen

(Mott St & Pell St, Manhattan)

(Lucky Garden Restaurant, North Providence, RI)

(Civic Center Synagogue, 49 White St, Manhattan)

It's dangerous to run for the train. You could slip and hurt yourself really badly.

But everyone that runs for the train and makes it in just before the doors close always grins like a madman afterwards. So, maybe it's worth the risk.

(Bowling Green Station, Manhattan)

(Marla)

The Monday is Cat Week Experience:
Paws Revisited
Chinatown
Feline Felicitations
Hollaback Cat
Black, White, Trendy
Bidalasana
Marla in the Superunknown
Four Felines
Hello Beckoning Kittys
Paws

I was 8 or 9 the first time I ever rode this escalator, which was the longest I'd ever seen.

I was with my Grandma who could barely speak English -- much less read it -- but somehow she knew where we were going. We were probably heading to Chinatown, where she worked for several years in a garment factory with two dozen other old Chinese ladies. While she worked, I'd run around the sweatshop, nap, read Chinese comics, and -- best of all -- eat lunch with her from the cool metal containers she brought from home.

It was the late 1970s and I can only imagine now how filthy and seedy Times Square and the subway must have been, to say nothing of a Chinatown sweatshop. But all I can remember is how fun it was to spend a day with my Grandma in New York.

(Times Sq Station, Manhattan)

(Battery Park City, Manhattan)

What are you looking forward to?
All summer, I was looking forward to the day this little restaurant near my office, "Tony's," opened back up. I'd discovered it earlier in the year, probably in the spring, and they had this huge, and I mean, HUGE Italian Sub for six bucks-even! Cappicola, salami, proscuitto, peppers, mozz...the works. There were at least five different meats in there. It was awesome.

And then, for reasons unbeknownst to me, the store closed up, and a sign advertising the opening of a new restaurant appeared. I thought that maybe they were just changing their name, or the rent got too high and they moved...I couldn't really get a straight answer from the construction workers.

About a week ago, I took my weekly visit over there (I had been checking back on Tony pretty frequently) and the new restaurant had opened. I sauntered in with a buddy of mine and politely asked the dude in charge, "What happened to Tony?" The dude replies, "He died." I was in shock. "He DIED!!??" To which he responded, "No, no. He RETIRED. He just got too old."

Too old to make sandwiches!? What the hell. And thus, my favorite lunching spot vanished into thin air. So I guess, to answer your question, I'm really looking forward to the day Tony comes out of retirement. Or, at least, the day another place near my office offers a gimongous sandwich at an affordable price.

What song have you been listening to most lately?
Hmmm. This is a tough one. I'm not one to listen to a song over and over again, really. Records? Definitely. And by "records," I mean, complete albums on my iPod. I've been listening to The Black Keys a bunch, particularly Rubber Factory and Thickfreakness. But it's sort of unfair to the other albums I tend to play repeatedly because I often listen to a band a bunch before I go and see them. And I happen to be going to a Black Keys show tonight. Neat, huh.

What do you believe with all your heart to be true, but can't prove?
God doesn't exist. I don't really wanna get into it more than that, but there you go.

(Apple Store Soho, Manhattan)

Related posts:
Three Questions Mania
Three Questions for Daniel
Three Questions for Karen
Apple Store Hysteria
Shop Different
Haiku 10.3.9 (7W98)
Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Jackson Trivia
Rehearsal
Speed-The-Play: Monday, June 27 @ New Dramatists [News]

I just bought my parents the spanking new iMac G5 (with built-in iSight, woohoo!) to replace their aging Gateway Astro, which itself is a knock-off of the original iMac . Although I only got in a few hours with the machine before sending it off to them, it seems like a winner.

(Note: it's the one in the middle.)

More Desk Geekiness:
Date With Ikea: Ich Bin Ein Jerker

(Park Drive South near West 67 St, Central Park, Manhattan)

(Broadway & 20 St, Manhattan)

...and if you don't care to vote for Bloomberg, may I suggest the Rent Is Too Damn High Party (if only for the name)?

In his four years in office, Mayor Bloomberg has made government more efficient and transparent, kept crime down, and -- most importantly to me -- taken control of the schools. I think he's done great work.

His opponents have tried to paint him as out-of-touch rich guy that caters to his fellow elite, but fortunately most New Yorkers see right through these desperate, personal attacks. We know that rich people can buy their way out of dangerous neighborhoods, bad schools, and inefficient government services.

The rest of us can't. Fixing these things means the City works better for all of everyone, especially the poor. Bloomberg's done plenty of this much-needed fixing, and he deserves four more years to keep at it.

I'm happy to vote to re-elect him on Tuesday and I hope you'll vote for him, too.

(B.B. King's, 42 St, Manhattan)

Related posts:
Lost Amongst the Pigeons and the Crumbs
Meet Me at the Corner of Dirt & McGirt

(Millenium Hilton, 55 Church St, Manhattan)

Related post:
Dunkin-n-Writin

Although the Spike Jonze/Christopher Walken video of Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" is pretty good, spontaneous gravity-defying dancing is something New Yorkers can see on an everyday basis -- in the right company.

(Chase Bank, 43 St & 5 Av, Manhattan)

More Strange Asian Women in Chase ATM vestibules:
"Please"

(Wall St & Broad St, Manhattan)

All around Wall St:
Stereo Umbrella
Looking Up
We Had a Winner
Time Out From the Rat Race
Four Minutes
Church vs State (vs Market)
DT via EC #1

(96 St-Broadway Station, Manhattan)

(Dakota Apartments, 72 St & Central Park West, Manhattan)